How Do We Know When Technology Helps—or Hurts—the Classroom? Educators at ISTE Weigh In | EdSurge News
“We dropped over $10,000 last year on a math product, but I’m not sure if it’s really helped our students learn.”
Sound familiar?
Trying to gauge the effectiveness of any teaching strategy is difficult, so this question isn’t just limited to educational technology. The best predictor of a students performance has already been shown to be the students socioeconomic status and that you can’t rely on standardized tests as a means of measuring success.
So how should we gauge student success?
