Schools, educators and administrators understand the importance of integrating technology into the classroom, but as the number of EdTech startups, tools and platforms increases, it can be tough for educators to find the signal from the noise and identify which technologies are having the biggest impact on what's most important: Teacher performance and student outcomes.
In preparation for a tougher fight, educators are making their cases now.
Now here's the tough question for educators and helpers of all sorts: Do we make a difference in people's lives, or is it really out of our hands?
And it's been tough," says guitarist and educator Kenny Burrell.
Reich's team creates text-, andmation- and video-based interactive simulations to mimic the "tough, teachable moments" that educators inevitably encounter in their work.
"Educators who want to approach the online education market to sell their courses essentially have two options: 1) create their own platform (alone or with the help of a developer) by integrating different tools (Vimeo, WordPress, PayPal, Slideshare, Disqus, etc); 2) publish their courses on a course aggregation platform such as Udemy, where the competition with other educators is tough.
"Unusual or highly customized homes can be difficult to sell in the best of markets, but when the general pool of qualified home buyers tightens up, as it has this year, it can be even tougher," explains Tara-Nicholle Nelson, consumer educator for Trulia.com.
As an educator, the toughest lessons I attempt to press upon my students are to do the right thing and to be kind.
The education law, for example, has been criticized for not being tough enough on chronically underperforming educators: Teachers can be reassigned, but not fired, for repeatedly failing new evaluation tests.
Organizing teachers is difficult, but it is especially tough with online schools, with educators scattered and not routinely congregating.
Ms. Corder maintains that educators often make tough recommendations, but in an e-mail to The Bay Citizen she took issue with the term "diagnosis" when describing her actions.
