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Why I Believed Edtech Could Save My School — and How It Failed Me

ED Surge

It wasn’t that I didn't value, cherish and miss the face-to-face interactions I had with my students, but because I naively assumed that my more reluctant colleagues would see the light and finally embrace edtech. Are we just educational luddites or has the edtech revolution fallen short of its promises ?

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

ED Surge

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Taking a more critical look at edtech. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students? We need to make a change.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

ED Surge

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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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Heather Brantley Educator, Instructional Technologist and Edtech Consultant EdSurge: What sparked your interest in incorporating more technology into your teaching methods?

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What ‘Shakespeare Karaoke’ Teaches About the Virtual Reality Future

ED Surge

The answer(s) may have implications for designing new edtech tools—and VR technology intended to be used beyond the classroom, too. As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

ED Surge

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses.

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