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Beyond the Basics — How Edtech Can Provide Students with Essential 21st-Century Skills

September 1, 2021

Via: Ed Surge
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With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred.

I have been in the education and edtech space for nearly a decade now, and I have long believed that edtech has the power to open up opportunities for students and change how educators teach. That being said, when COVID-19 hit, edtech went from being a learning supplement to the center of the classroom, almost overnight. As the stress of the pandemic, the abrupt shift to remote and hybrid instruction, and the challenge of managing students’ social-emotional learning made teaching incredibly difficult for educators around the world, edtech made learning possible when physical classrooms were no longer accessible.

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