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Edtech Can’t Replace Poor Instruction

By Matthew Lynch
August 20, 2019

Edtech has not delivered on its promise to transform education. In fact, schools seldom realize the full promise of education technology. Are we expecting ...

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States With The Best Public School Systems

By Matthew Lynch
July 7, 2019

Not many issues can compare with the state of the public school system. A system that impacts the development of the nation’s future contributors ...

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By Matthew Lynch
October 19, 2017

If you want to market to the EdTech arena’s most influential audience, then The Tech Edvocate is your publication of choice. The Tech Edvocate ...

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The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones Of 2020: All The Best Options For Silencing The Noise

Whether you’re a student trying to drown out distractions while studying for a big exam or you’re just someone who really loves immersing themselves in a good song, noise-canceling headphones ...
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The Best YouTube Downloaders For 2020: All The Best Options For Downloading Videos

While YouTube is a true treasure trove of informative and entertaining content for students and educators alike, it can be troublesome trying to access YouTube when WiFi is sketchy or ...
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The Best Screen Recorders Of 2020: All The Best Options For Creating Tutorials, Recording Webinars, ...

Screen recorders are the way of the future for educators and students when it comes to everything from putting together PowerPoint presentations to recording tutorials and conducting webinars. Rather than ...
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The Best Tablets For K-12 and College Educators 2020: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

While a quality laptop is an essential tool in any K-12 or college educators’ teaching toolkit, a great tablet can do a lot of what a laptop can do while ...
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The Best Laptops For K-12 And College Educators 2020: All The Best Options For Innovative ...

A good laptop will do wonders for K-12 and college educators alike, but it’s a great laptop that will separate an educator from their peers when it comes to organization ...

Child Development Tech Higher Education EdTech

What Can Amazon Alexa Do for You?

Having a personal assistant is a luxury many people can only dream about. Who wouldn’t want someone to screen calls, schedule appointments, and send reminders. Personal assistants take on many ...
Child Development Tech Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Higher Education EdTech

5 Ways Technology Is Making Students Anxious

Psychological well-being as measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness suddenly decreased amongst students after 2012. This decrease in psychological well-being and increase in anxiety levels are linked to the ...
Child Development Tech Early Childhood

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea

Why Online Preschool Is a Terrible Idea It used to be that parents sent their young children to kindergarten to prepare them for elementary school. Now things have developed to ...
Child Development Tech

Less Screen Time and More Socialization

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that we spend too much time in front of a computer screen. We work in front of a computer, check our ...
Child Development Tech Parent & Family Tech

How to Talk to Parents About Safety on School-Provided Technology

With the advent of digital learning, learners have been exposed to several technologies and devices such as Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops at school and home. However, these devices have more ...

Teachers

Nurturing Reflective Relationships in Your Classroom

Teaching is a profession like no other. Even with the best of plans, things can go awry quickly. Imagine starting off your day like the teacher in this class: It’s ...
Teachers

The Impact of YouTube Videos On Student Learning

Technology in the classroom is becoming more popular, and based on the different ways that children learn, it could help a child to learn better. One technology tool that is ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Teachers

Back On Track with Credit Recovery

The path toward high school graduation is an obvious one. Earn the credits you need in each subject area, graduate, and move on. There are plenty of ways to earn ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Teachers

Algorithms, Omelets, and Student Placement

I’ve been sitting here at breakfast pondering a real issue. Which came first, the algorithm or the omelet? Trust me, these two real issues are related to each other. First, ...
Teachers

3 Easy Steps to Using a Collaboration Technology Approach

No teacher can do it all. Running a classroom, delivering instruction, and giving timely feedback are huge tasks by themselves. The good news is that responsibility for learning doesn’t have ...

Education Leadership

Administrators Should Adopt OERs Only After Careful Vetting

While open educational resources (OERs) are a fantastic well of lesson plans and materials that can benefit teachers and students alike, there remains a troublesome question about their use in ...
Education Leadership

Using Data Analytics To Power Your Restorative Justice Program

Traditional methods of administering in-school discipline have flat out failed public schools. This is especially true when it comes to circling disciplinary problems and excising them from school grounds. In ...
Education Leadership Higher Education

What’s in Your School’s Emergency Response Plan?

Our modern times have created modern emergencies few could have predicted. Once thought to be one of the safest buildings in the community, schools face tremendous danger. Lives are on ...
Early Childhood & K-12 EdTech Education Leadership Teachers

Back On Track with Credit Recovery

The path toward high school graduation is an obvious one. Earn the credits you need in each subject area, graduate, and move on. There are plenty of ways to earn ...
Education Leadership Teachers

Why You Need Project Management Tools

We talk a lot about instructional technology, but there’s another side to campus edtech. It’s called project management, and it’s every bit as vital for school success as teaching. Project ...

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