Guest Commentary: Measuring the Success of EdTech is not all About Test Scores

Christopher Dawson covers the EdTech beat for ZDNet, an online news and information source for the digital community.
"Let me start by saying that I’ve seen too many technology implementations in schools that add no real educational value, but take a nice dent out of taxpayer wallets. There are plenty of ways to go about making a school “technology-rich” that actually take away from the real business of learning," Dawson recently wrote.
"I am not in the give-everyone-computers-and-watch-them-succeed camp.However, I wouldn’t be in the business of Ed Tech if I didn’t think that the potential existed for kids to learn in new, engaging ways that prepared them for real-world challenges and managed to better differentiate instruction so that every student could be better served in our public schools," he continued.
Dawson believes that new ways need to developed to measure success in blended learning and online learning environments.
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