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Are the admins all getting mega kickbacks for signing on to all the ed-tech? Like are they all sleeping with their ed-tech sales reps or something?  :lol: [/quote]

People imagine that ed tech adoption is some nefarious, corrupt thing. Rather, there are a number of reasons admin are pressured to purchase and deploy computer-based learning platforms.

A number of states have learning standards that include computer-based work. In the same way that students need to know their multiplication facts by the end of 3rd grade, there will be similar standards for 21st century learning skills or something similar. Teachers who fail to teach these standards can have reduced evaluation scores.

Classrooms are also very diverse. I’ve taught in small, moderately selective private schools where two students in the room are scoring in single-digit percentiles on standardized tests and three students in the room are scoring in the 99th percentile. Computers make it easier to support lagging learner and to challenge fast learners without the teacher designing three separate lessons per day. We aren’t going to fix this issue until all schools have meaningful identification, support, and remediation for learning disabled students and have ability-tracked classes (currently too much of a risk for discrimination claims in the public school setting).

Finally, grading takes a lot of time. When teachers have student loads of up to 140 students, they don’t even have one minute per child per day to do grading. Automated learning activities provide fast, actionable feedback.

I am not saying that any of this makes ed tech great. Rather, it’s useful for parents to understand how we got here in education.[/quote]

Edtech exploded during the pandemic. Schools realized they could get away with it and just stuck with it. It is disgusting that teachers are showing kids videos every 20 minutes in kindergarten[/quote]

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