ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To support improved student outcomes, educators increasingly look to technology. During the last 12 years, she has inspired other teachers to embed edtech effectively in their classes, encouraging students to work together, create and move around the room! Dont overthink it. Be willing to learn alongside your students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. Is Morris’ move a model for other educators?

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. A great deal of edtech purchases went unused , equity gaps widened , and teachers and students were burned out. For those of us that have been in edtech awhile, it feels like we’re stuck in a loop.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

Over the past decade, global investment in edtech has soared to new heights. The urgent need to educate children at home created by COVID-19 lockdowns turbocharged already existing momentum, and analysts now expect edtech expenditure to reach an eye-watering $300 billion globally this year.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. So how does a teacher find new edtech products suitable for their classroom and determine their value? Tips for discovering the best edtech tools for your classroom. Read edtech-focused blogs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. from the MIT Media Lab and has been working on design of educational materials for more than a decade, said it’s not that edtech companies don’t do any testing.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Edtech can help. So lets look at the most common challenges language learners face and the surprising ways edtech can overcome them. For the ESL student, developing a presentation about their home country, food, or really anything unique to their culture is a chance for a student to show off what they know. and Jotform.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When considering the benefits to using edtech, an eighth grade student at Elizabeth Forward School District said, “When we started in first and second grade, everything was on paper and it was just a lot more difficult because if you forgot something, you can’t go back to school and get it. The district’s Technology Director, Mary B.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. The next step for school leaders is to focus on purchasing edtech strategically, ensuring that these tools genuinely make a positive difference in teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says. Which Path to Take?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2017

Education leaders seeking to improve learning outcomes for English Learners have started exploring ways to leverage edtech tools to meet students’ diverse cultural and linguistic needs. Maintaining open lines of communication and feedback with edtech providers to continuously improve the products available in the market.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. That's why she uses edtech tools in the classroom to provide a safe space where she can encourage all types of learners to contribute. Let’s take a trip back to high school.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. Forming partnerships are an extremely important aspect of educational leadership. So why is this a big deal?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to concerns over privacy, bias and reliability, AI is driving a flood of new products in a broad range of sectors, including education. Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. The most critical factor in selecting edtech is its evidence base.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Like many educators who saw the early pandemic fallout, administrators in my school knew that we had to respond to students’ needs as they faced increased isolation and unprecedented stress levels. The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. Edtech has a product that takes care of it for you.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In response, some higher education institutions are creating microcredential programs that positively impact student success, but you don’t have to create an entirely new program to show your institution’s value. However, higher education cannot continue to assume that it knows what employers want and need.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

The COVID19 pandemic unearthed many harsh realities for education across the globe. Inadequate WIFI and the availability of computers at home for kids to use for learning caught many educators off guard. Most of all, the learning culture will most certainly be different, and it will be a travesty if it is not.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

This framework, based on traditional elements of education yet encouraging movement from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge, charts learning along the two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement. Education and digital have become inherently intertwined.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” The COVID pandemic has brought a rush of new people interested in building tools and businesses to help improve education.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

In the midst of interviewing candidates for an open vice principal position, calling prospective teachers, and going through mounds of paperwork I managed to make the time to video conference with administrators and educational stakeholders in Virginia, Iowa, New York, and Florida. Boy was I wrong! I NEED THEM TOO!!!! Does this make sense?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. At Reconstruction , a company that launched less than two years ago to teach “unapologetically Black education,” the ideal class size is six students to one teacher, says Rachel Etienne, the company’s curriculum lead.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

By my second year of teaching through the pandemic, despite my best efforts to remain optimistic, I could not shake the feeling that the education system was taking a turn for the worse. The hope that the pandemic would force leaders to reevaluate their priorities concerning education seemed to dwindle by the day.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? That’s not a new ideology within education. That includes higher education. At least, in theory.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Earlier this year, studies confirmed what many educators already knew: Students have suffered substantial academic setbacks resulting from the pandemic. The American Rescue Plan requires local education agencies (LEAs) to spend at least 20 percent of federal funding on evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the issue.

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Edthena

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many educators have heard of culturally responsive teaching, but do they really know what that entails? Culturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach. So, what is culturally responsive teaching? Culturally responsive teaching accelerates student achievement.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. This digital disconnect isnt just a result of outdated systems; its about the complex web of cultural, organizational and infrastructural barriers that leave many institutions data-rich but insight-poor.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic. It’s generally a culture of helpfulness and inclusivity, he expands, one that uplifts everyone.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. Lessons Learned to Move Forward. Elevated Role of Parents and Caregivers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. So it seemed like a good time to ask what she learned over the past decade, how COVID has changed teaching and what advice she has for other edtech entrepreneurs. program at Stanford University.

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Edthena

MARCH 11, 2022

Positive school culture is key to thriving teachers and students. It means that educators are connected and behave with shared beliefs and values. But school leaders have so much on their plates and it can be tricky to know how to support something as broad as the culture of a school. First is modeling educator wellness.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. The brain is a learning machine” according to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , who is on a mission to educate educators about the neuroscience behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). “The

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. With that in mind, I ask educators this question: How can we use video paratext to advance inquiry and engagement?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Prior to Northern Ignite , an Education Innovation Cluster in Northern New Jersey, there were very few formalized ways to share or celebrate this work. Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together stakeholders across sectors to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. “We

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

News articles often highlight the challenges educators face and the ways in which students are not achieving. Educators across the country are addressing challenges and building solutions that work for their communities with big results. Educator playground @RSSinformation #DPLIS #LISCarolinas pic.twitter.com/NA2rShcO1K.

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