Are Schools Listening to Teachers about #EdTech? - HoET212

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Featured Content (8:38)

• When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers? (EdSurge)
• When your school or district decides to invest in and make a new edtech product available, the goal is to transform student learning and add value to their experiences in the classroom.
• But where in the process do you fit in? If you're a teacher what, if any, is your role? And how much say do you—or should you—have in edtech decisions?
• In a survey released earlier this year, the edtech company Clever found that 85 percent of administrators say teachers are involved in choosing tools. When the company asked teachers, more than 60 percent said they were hardly ever—or never—involved in those choices.
• So which is it?
• Do You Have a Seat at the Table
  • Is there enough teacher voice in the edtech selection process? NO.
  • Why? Well first, teachers aren't the people in a position to spend district resources and sign contracts with vendors. At a fundamental level, this puts distance between the companies and the teachers. #2...when it comes to purchasing #edtech focus is usually on the tech and not the education. So your tech personnel is usually more involved because the tech needs to work before it can be used to teach.
• Striking a Balance
  • So how do we find that balance? A major obstacle is that teachers, and I've been