The Hechinger Report – Nicole Dobo
“Many education technology creators have targeted teachers, rather than entire districts, to get a foothold in classrooms. An overwhelming majority of schools now provide computers in classrooms, and new money from the federal government is advancing the march of modern Internet access to even the poorest schools. As a result, innovation has been able to grow organically, with teachers leading the way on experiments to improve classroom instruction with the help of technology. But this created a scattershot effect, with pockets of teachers trying new things. It also left these pioneering teachers to be assessed for their effectiveness by school leaders – many of them had not been trained in these new tools.”(more)