Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2024

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

Today’s teachers have robust technology at their disposal, and students have grown up in an increasingly digital world. But, with so many software applications, devices and other technologies on the market, it’s easy for teachers to become overwhelmed with the array of opportunities available to them.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, when it comes to technology, the benefits and barriers are intertwined with much different funding systems, which impact regulations. As independent school leaders know, trying to navigate student technology use can lead to unique challenges.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2024

Technology enables it to differentiate authentically for the diverse group of learners that walk across your threshold. Until the day of, the technology that is its foundation fails. All that matters is an effort to use technology to add rigor and excitement to a tired lesson plan fails, leaving the teacher more technophobic than ever.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

Department of Education released the highly anticipated update to the National Educational Technology Plan Monday. The Biden-Harris Administration has made bold investments aimed at closing the digital divide and ensuring all students can equitably access the latest digital tools and technology,” U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

He dedicates two hours a day to continued learning to stay up to date on new technology trends, he told host and CDW Education Strategist Victoria Thompson on a recent episode of Focus on Edu. I always like to be ahead of the game,” Valerio said.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Before K–12 students even step onto school grounds, they are supported by an invisible matrix of technologies that make learning possible. As they navigate the school day, those technologies continue to work on their behalf to seamlessly usher them from one experience to the next.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

That was until a team of teachers, therapists and technology staff worked to find a solution. They attached a tablet loaded with text-to-talk software to her chair, and those educational technology tools changed her life. Public Schools, to a wheelchair and prevented her from speaking or fully participating in learning activities.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Certain technologies lend themselves to increased collaboration in the K–12 classroom. Still, as technology advances, schools are looking for new ways to push the boundaries of learning through collaboration. Educators often rely on interactive displays, cloud software and screen-sharing tools to encourage students to work together.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. Another way technology can be used to transform teaching and learning is by enhancing engagement and motivation. Finally, technology can be harnessed to transform teaching and learning by enhancing assessment and feedback.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2022

Frequently, districts purchased USB plug-and-play peripherals for learning, but they also made large investments in classroom technology such as pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Of these, webcams and microphones were two of the most popular products.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many benefits of technology in the classroom, so we’ve picked five of the most significant for this handy list. Read on for the top 5 advantages to technology in the classroom or visit our education solutions page for more insights on EdTech. But for those who embrace it, the advantages are virtually limitless.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

K–12 IT professionals are always seeking modern technology for their schools’ users, from connections that serve IT departments to gadgets that advance student learning. As the calendar year comes to a close, admins and technology leaders should begin thinking about the solutions they’ll purchase in the spring.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2022

With technology, it is so much easier to offer students the assistive technology they need to pursue their education dreams. The Tech Edvocate has so great suggestions for apps and prograsms to help those with specialized needs: What to Ask Colleges About Assistive Technology – The Tech Edvocate.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 13, 2023

This creates tension when I guide educators in exploring alternative instructional models that use technology strategically. These technology-enhanced instructional models require more from students in terms of self-regulation and self-directed learning. They also necessitate that teachers trust their students.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Pairing that movement with technology amplifies the impact and improves student outcomes. When students move around in a classroom, it opens up new levels of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I have written in the past about parent questions concerning technology in education , but always from the perspective of a teacher at the classroom. So I asked my grad school students: What questions do parents ask you about technology and education ? Here are the top issues: How much screen time is appropriate for my child?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. Even a decade ago, technology was an extra class in student schedules where now, it is a life skill. Kindergartners love technology. Kindergartners learn technology fast. I see a few of you shaking your heads.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 30, 2024

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For K–12, educational technology represents a multimillion-dollar investment in support of improved outcomes. But as K–12 administrators and IT professionals look at their budgets, they must remember that technology isn’t just an upfront expense.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 10, 2023

She became director of LA Unified’s instructional technology initiative in 2015 and helped restructure the department’s digital transformation approach to make pedagogy central to classroom technology. She continues to make her mark while overseeing a team of 30 coaches who support more than 25,000 teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

Achieving both aims at once sounds like a tall order, but adaptive learning technologies help to do… This saves the educators time, while also providing insight into students’ learning processes and patterns.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2021

He has some interesting reflections on technology’s place in education: Remember the days of Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe’s or students drawing pictures with Kid Pix. Much has changed since technology has made inroads into education, and much has not. So how do we know if the technology used in the classroom works? .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Persons with disabilities may struggle with coordination problems, short attention spans, and limited mobility, which may or may not be obvious. Among the services they provide is guidance on assistive technology in schools. What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Technology integration is no longer about whether tech belongs in classrooms. In today’s education landscape, it pertains to how technology is chosen and used for learning. Schools have received waves of government funding for educational technology. Students benefit from technology integration when it is done well.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

There are growing concerns about students' mental well-being as well as inter- and intra-personal skills, which have only been magnified by not only the pandemic but also advances in technology as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. So much so that one has to wonder about the overall effect on a social and emotional level.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2021

Rachelle Dené Poth brings educational technology into all of her classes. A teacher at Riverview Junior-Senior High School in Pennsylvania, Poth focuses on digital citizenship, artificial intelligence, and augmented and virtual reality with her STEAM students, but she also incorporates the technology into her other classes. “I

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. Let’s be clear: this is a big red flag that this school is just pretending at technology integration and coaching. It’s simply “ Here’s a random hour.

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