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5 Essential Questions Educators Have About AI

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Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact.

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Establishing a Research-Based Framework for Edtech Product Quality

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Educators face a daunting task of keeping up with rapidly evolving edtech products, identifying the best available applications and effectively implementing them in their classrooms. The ISTE Seal of Alignment product certification program has developed a reputation for identifying excellent edtech products that align with the ISTE Standards.

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Schools Use Trial and Error for Choosing Edtech, But They Don’t Have to

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When school districts spend months implementing a new edtech tool, they often learn a great deal—and they learn it the hard way. That’s a primary reason that about half of all education technology tools purchased by school districts are likely to be not used at all, and technologies are often inequitably implemented.

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? Here are five ways edtech can kick up your social studies program: Simulations and games. If you don’t teach in the United States, this might be a term you aren’t familiar with.

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Can a Critic of Edtech Change a Controversial Homework-Help Site From the Inside?

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Sean Michael Morris knows that he has cultivated a certain “ethos” over his career in higher education—as a self-described critic of edtech and a champion of helping professors improve their teaching. Morris says he has long been dedicated to offering a “critique” of edtech. “My Which has been an interesting thing this week.”

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Why a Teacher-First Approach Is a Win for Edtech and Education

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Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

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Then your institution has benefited from a quiet but powerful 20-year revolution of connecting edtech ecosystems. Most importantly, the user experience and instruction time are now the primary focus rather than how to connect products. Now, this integration can take just a few minutes. That results in massive time and cost savings.

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