The Edtech Marketplace Today blog series invites voices from the field to highlight the ways in which the edtech marketplace struggles to meet the needs of learners, educators, or research-based product developers. Learn how these challenges impact school and district leaders, teachers, students, and product developers and try the authors’ suggested solutions in your own work to enhance your experience navigating the edtech market. By working together, Digital Promise and stakeholders from the field can collaboratively design solutions to improve the market, and ultimately improve learning.
Author: Ken Dirkin
Michigan Virtuals shares a guide for selecting a learning management system (LMS) for K-12 education
Author: Dr. Dave Richards
Michigan Virtuals shares three lessons learned through crowdsourcing K-12 innovations
Author: Jamey Fitzpatrick
What one cohort of Michigan educators learned while building a grassroots educational leadership movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Jobert Ngwenya
By giving students autonomy to select the kinds of tech they want to use to show their learning, educators can support a collaborative and engaging classroom environment.
Author: Laurie Guyon
When and how does it make sense to use edtech to align with standards?
Author: Jeff Durney
Tips for using edtech in unconventional ways to encourage collaboration
Author: Matthew Green
Creating a test for edtech that helps teachers find tools that support student agency, choice, and creativity in learning
Author: Sierra Noakes
Three ideas to effectively leverage stimulus funds
Author: Sierra Noakes
Four questions to determine which tools best meet your learners’ needs
Authors: Ivey Homer and Dr. Natalie Osborne Smith
How school closures increased support and impacted the coach-teacher-district relationship
Author: Mary Beth Hertz
We must take steps to improve equity in the technology found in schools.
Author: Dr. L. Robert Furman
Leverage learners’ growth during remote learning to reimagine classrooms
Author: Sierra Noakes
Educators deserve to know which edtech products will meet their learners’ needs
Author: Sierra Noakes
Find a strategy to select edtech likely to meet your students’ needs
Author: Molly Zielezinski, PhD
Learn how edtech can better communicate with educators
Author: Christina Luke, Ph.D.
Four reasons products should be transparent about their use of learning sciences research
Author: Digital Promise
10 tips for edtech vendors to build strong relationships with educators.
Author: Sierra Noakes
Learn how product certifications can improve the edtech industry.
Author: Digital Promise
8 tips for educators to build strong relationships with edtech vendors.
Author: Karin Forssell, PhD
Tips to help you better understand edtech impact.
Author: Andrew J. Smith, Ed. D.
Explore tools, resources, and best practices to find and buy edtech based on student needs.
Author: Ivey Homer
A middle school teacher/coach shares her guiding questions to selecting effective technology.
Author: Mary Beth Hertz
Learn what edtech selection and procurement have in common with dating sites.
Author: Savitha Moorthy, Executive Director of Tandem, Partners in Early Learning.
A parent shares strategies for screen time and connected parenting.
Author: Sierra Noakes
Ensure that your school’s edtech products meet the needs of each unique learner
Author: Jonathan Piper II
A high school student shares his perspective on edtech and equity
Author: Andrew J. Smith, Ed. D.
Antiquated, exclusive processes create challenges for edtech procurement.
Author: Ace Parsi
Intentional edtech investment holds the market accountable to equitable outcomes.
Author: Kara Carpenter, Ph.D., Cofounder, Teachley
Focus on instructionally challenging topics instead of perpetuating shallow “coverage.”
Author: Dr. L. Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center in South Park Township, PA
Try these strategies to discover and select edtech for your classroom.
Author: Sierra Noakes, Research Project Manager at Digital Promise
Launching a new series that discusses how the current edtech marketplace fails to meet learners’ needs.
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