Use and Importance of Technology in Education | EdtechReview. About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
EdTech K–12 Magazine (@EdTech_K12) | Twitter. Top 10 Twitter Accounts to Follow for Education Technology. 6 Higher Education Hashtags to Follow on Twitter. Based on our interviews with our must-read IT bloggers, Twitter is the social network of choice for the higher education community. According to Karine Joly of collegewebeditor.com, Twitter offers more value to the technology community than other platforms: The game changer for me was Twitter. It’s the way I keep in touch with the higher ed web community, ask questions and even sometimes take a break to exchange a few jokes. I love the immediacy Twitter enables. I was an early adopter in the higher ed web community, so it has really been a part of my work life for the past four years.
Since I also teach the capstone graduate online course on social media marketing campaigns for the MBA in Social Media Marketing at SNHU, I still have to use Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. But my heart definitely belongs to Twitter. Speaker, consultant and thought leader Eric Stoller agrees: Twitter is the most versatile social network in my life. #highered #onlinelearning #edtech #mobilelearning #sachat #edu. EdTech Magazine. What's on the horizon for K-12 ed tech in 2017? To say the least, 2017 promises to be an interesting year for K-12 education. The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and impending implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act alone promise to keep educators' hands full, to say nothing of ongoing tech challenges. As educators and students gear up to finish out the latter half of the 2016-17 school year, we reached out to four district tech chiefs and thought leaders for their thoughts on ed tech predictions, concerns and trends facing administrators in the new year.
Next year, I think CIOs, CTOs and tech directors will continue the trend to focus less on devices, programs and apps and more on instruction. It's been great to have conversations about student learning and goals over whether we should purchase this device or that. I also hope to see the conversation around decentralizing the MakerSpace open up. Among concerns, any possible impact to E-Rate from the new Presidential Administration.