EdTech, Government and Professional Development

3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

In almost every collaboration or discussion around what educators, schools and institutions need from their educational technology, three themes rise to the surface: The need for a trusted, interoperable and flexible edtech ecosystem. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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Align Your Edtech Investments With What Matters Most

ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Public and private edtech companies felt the pain of these poor results, announcing more than 8,000 layoffs in an industry that only employs about 100,000 people. It’s a tough time to build or invest in an edtech company. Students across the U.S.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. If edtech is used and supported correctly, this can expand the number of students who receive a truly high-quality education, Chung argues.

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How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom.

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Prioritizing Professional Development, During and After the Pandemic (eSchool News Podcast)

Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

Vrain Valley Schools in Colorado became that much more important as professional development stayed a pandemic priority. Professional Development Should Stay a Pandemic Priority. As we talked before the recording, we want to focus a little bit on professional development. It’s definitely vague.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – February 2022

Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Read more at Government Technology: Edthena Launches AI for Teacher Professional Development and at The Hogan Report: 5 Big EdTech Deals. Teachers’ professional learning needs are changing. Are you or your teachers feeling truly satisfied with professional development options?

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. million daycare centers to develop the tools and knowledge to become a skilled early childhood educator.

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That shortage has become so desperate at times that state governments have even started letting their employees take paid time off to plug in the holes in missing staff, in an effort to keep schools from shuttering in-person learning. Schools across the country are dealing with a severe teacher shortage.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. Rwanda, an African edtech leader, plowed on with the (formerly) UN-backed One Laptop Per Child initiative without explaining how teachers should work with them.

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Cybercriminals come for schools — and schools aren’t ready

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. Her co-author on the study, PhD candidate Chanenson, said districts should dedicate a professional development day to cybersecurity and best practices for staff as part of back-to-school planning.

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Inside a growing federal effort to prepare students for cybersecurity careers

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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Can Affordable Computing Education Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you can persuade a government or an education system to put computer science in the curriculum, that's great. That requires a huge investment in ongoing teacher professional development. I was the chair of a school governing board for over a decade, and I know the daily challenges that schools face.

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Align Your Edtech Investments With What Matters Most

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

How Can Teachers Prepare Students for an AI-Driven Future?

Prioritizing Professional Development, During and After the Pandemic (eSchool News Podcast)

Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – February 2022

Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

Cybercriminals come for schools — and schools aren’t ready

Inside a growing federal effort to prepare students for cybersecurity careers

Can Affordable Computing Education Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

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