During my tenure as a district educational technology director, we became pretty good at reviewing and selecting classroom technology hardware. We developed a thorough committee process that included ...

School systems spend tens of billions of dollars each year on ed tech products, but much of that money is wasted. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

School districts’ educational technology teams, composed of educators skilled in helping teachers integrate ed tech tools and resources into their instruction, have long stood on shifting sands. As ...

At least since the Clinton era, the education technology sector has often been hailed as a catalyst that will fundamentally transform global education systems. As of 2023, the market had ballooned to ...

When evaluating which ed tech tools to adopt, evidence of impact is one of the most important factors to consider. At the highest level, ed tech should be chosen based on its ability to improve ...

Evaluating the usage of ed-tech products is tricky, complicated, and oftentimes confusing. But it can be done. Consider the case of the Granite County school district in Utah. It partnered with a ...

The past two years have been a tumultuous period for ed tech: never has so much been spent on so many devices in so few months. But now that more children - and teachers - have access to more ...

Early in 2018, ed-tech company Clever launched a new product aimed at helping tens of thousands of schools tackle a vexing challenge: determining whether students are actually using the software and ...

Over the past two decades, the education technology (ed-tech) startup revolution has brought about significant changes in the education landscape, offering innovative approaches to learning and ...

IT leaders in K–12 need visibility into their data on both a network and classroom level to simplify audits, manage budgets and improve security. Many K–12 districts are not using data analytics tools ...

Do you work in ed tech higher ed sales? My goal in this post is to start a discussion, with the result of the larger IHE community gaining a better understanding of the world of an ed tech sales ...

Every few months, a new study claims that gadgets in the classroom don’t improve learning—but that hasn’t stopped the educational technology market’s steady upward climb. The ed-tech market totaled $8 ...