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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

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Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I For example, in one of our focus groups, we asked teachers to examine the prototype for a tool they could use to evaluate whether and how to use edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Using Data to Support Personalized Learning Pathways

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What skills and training do businesses want from the next generation of workers? More important—how do they make sure students are succeeding with this new plan? Now, the mission is to figure out what data to track and how to use it. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Join the Community.

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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

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Though I was technology savvy, none of my classwork or student teaching prepared me for this. I wasn’t trained to teach computer science, how was I supposed to make this work? This sounded like a great plan, but how were teachers going to be trained to implement these standards?

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Not Just for Reading Class Anymore: 5 Tips for Teaching Literacy Across Multiple Subjects

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But I wasn’t trained to teach literacy,” you say—and I’m right there with you. Dora Kastel may not be a traditional classroom teacher, but she and the team at the American Museum of Natural History have founded a number of professional learning programs and tools related to the Next Generation Science Standards.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

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She also has extensive experience helping K-12 schools implement 1:1 programs and in disseminating problem-based and project-based learning methodologies that focus on helping each student develop his or her own voice. She also has specialized training in emergent literacy instruction. Join the Community.

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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

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Across New Hampshire, school leaders are searching for strategies to ensure that their edtech investments are being leveraged to pay dividends on student engagement, acceleration of learning, and saving teachers’ time. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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