Rather than purchasing the latest and greatest gadgets, staff are spending more time assessing what resources and tools will be of most value to the school and students,
investing in edtech that will be both beneficial and effective.
I believe that
investing in EdTech simply can not wait if we want to close those opportunity gaps.
In other words,
investing in edtech can be a mechanism to forge promising relationships and connections far beyond students» immediate context, rather than depriving them of human contact.
My advice for institutions looking to
invest in edtech is to start with a clear set of priorities informed by an assessment of their current provision, the issues that need to be resolved and plans for future years.
Not exact matches
Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Education, and her predecessor Nicky Morgan, have both been insisting on the need to prove the impact of
EdTech, ensuring that schools do not
invest in «technology for technology's sake.»
We
invested as the business has a proven model
in a dynamic market, with a highly capable CEO and management team with deep experience
in EdTech at the helm.
However, with their ever - shrinking budgets, schools must be sure of the efficacy of
EdTech before
investing,
in order not to waste money that could be better used elsewhere.
While schools are more likely to
invest in technology that supports and enhances students» learning, something that is quite often pushed down the list is using
edtech resources to improve teachers» own experiences and reduce their workloads
The act goes on to stress the importance of using student data to evaluate the efficacy of classroom technology and urges districts to
invest in data - based
edtech tools.
to evaluate the efficacy of classroom technology and urges districts to
invest in data - based
edtech tools.
Even during lean times, school districts have been eager to
invest in technology
in the classroom, opening up all kinds of opportunity for
edtech...
Key themes to be discussed include connectivity, African mobility, the cloud and the Internet of Things,
investing in African tech, future trends, payments, banking and fintech, mhealth,
edtech, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and mcommerce.