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Edtech Should Be More Evidence-Driven

ED Surge

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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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

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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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

ED Surge

But they’re learning through songs, poems and dance” related to Black history and Black life. Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” Meeting the Demand Since the start of the pandemic, usage and engagement of the early childhood classes and products has soared, edtech leaders say.

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New National Survey Analyzes Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Edtech and Professional Development. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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AI Might Save Teachers Time. But What Is the Cost?

ED Surge

As an assistant professor of edtech, I often think about the implications of AI on teaching and learning, especially as I experiment with implementing various practices and approaches with the pre-service educators I teach. The television person values immediacy, not history. (if AI can do all of this.)

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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

ED Surge

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

And the relatively new Massachusetts Personalized Learning Edtech consortium, known by its acronym MAPLE, has recently provided the means to do so. What they require is an organizational culture that gives them the permission to do that,” Klau said. The paths that schools take to personalize children’s learning vary widely.

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