Jennifer Carolan discusses how her fund approaches education technology with a need-driven strategy, the rapid pace of tech adoption in schools, and why young teachers are central to this shift.
Our fund is really need driven, thesis driven. So we ask our teachers, we ask our school leaders, you know, what's preventing you from, what's preventing your students from reaching high levels of student achievement? And then they will tell us, this is what we need. We need a better way for teachers to share lesson plans. We need a better way for students, for teachers to be trained on the spot. And we will go out looking for those solutions.
So before we go through some of those solutions, which I want to hear about, you said something earlier that I thought was really interesting, is that the adoption of new technologies has accelerated in the last couple years in schools. Is that true?
Absolutely.
And what's driving that? Or is it legislation? Is it iPads? Is it something it's now time where the students have more tech than the schools have?
I mean, yeah, there's quite a few factors, I think. One is that I would say this ed tech revolution has been led by the teachers, and they are the ones adopting these solutions, bringing them into their classrooms and using them.
That's a big idea. Why do you think that is?
Well, 40% of U.S. teachers, there's 4 million U.S. teachers are under the age of 30. So they're young, they've grown up with, with technology.
I see.
And this is the way, you know, they're banking online, they're shopping online, they come to school and they get, you know, in most schools, this is what you get your file cabinet, your textbook and your, you know, your paper grader. And they're saying, you know, no way. We want technology tools that are as good as our consumer technology tools.
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