COVID revealed a need as well as a great opportunity for school districts to integrate technology as a routine means of instruction. Seen at first as a challenge to overcome, using technology to educate students has since taken on new meaning, particularly with the explosive entrance of AI just three years post pandemic. While there will always be well placed resistance to sudden changes in how we serve students in K-12 (and beyond), educators collectively seem to be gleaning more benefit than disadvantage when it comes to using edtech tools. Check out the full article to learn more about the increase of education technology in K-12!
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Tech, Tech Boom!
School districts on average tapped into 2,739 different ed tech tools during the 2023-24 school year — up 8% from an average of 2,518 tools the previous school year, according to a recent report by Instructure’s LearnPlatform, an ed tech platform that helps districts research and choose digital learning products.
A recent RAND study concluded that influxes of new English Learner (EL) students in schools result in “sizable academic gains” of...