While some may regard the recent buzz around education technology as hype, it’s important to realize it is based on an element of hopefulness. The ...

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A mountain of evidence indicates that educators have been painfully slow to use technology to change and improve the ways they teach.

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TRUE OR FALSE: A few weeks ago, education journalist Peg Tyre wrote a tough review of edtech (specifically iPads), pointing out research qualifying the ...

More than 1.6 million teachers are members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second largest teachers' union in the country. But how ...

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State Digital Learning Exemplars Highlights from states leading change through policies and funding SETDA and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University College of Education co-released the national report, State Digital Learning Exemplars: Highlights from states leading change through policies and funding. States are striving to support the expansion of technology tools […]

Blamed for a decline in maths test results, handwriting ability and attention spans, critics say technology in education often misses the mark

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Given the enormous potential of edtech to assist teachers in highly diverse classrooms to truly personalize learning and obtain significant student academic growth, why are we seeing such consistent and large-scale edtech failure when it comes to gains in student academic achievement?

Do you sometimes feel like you are on an island leading EdTech initiatives at your school? You’re invited to join our community of EdTe ch leaders! Leadership Lift aspires to support, encourage,...

How can we think smarter about educational technology in the classroom? Check out these suggestions and resources to find out how.

Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge The Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge model or TPACK for short has been around for some time. It builds upon the work of Lee Shulman and extends his idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra expand upon this in much more detail on their site http://tpack.org and

Inquiry-based techniques are challenging conventional ways of teaching and empowering students who might otherwise get overlooked.