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Jennifer Carolan: Teachers Test and Pitch New Technology

Name: Jennifer Carolan: Teachers Test and Pitch New Technology
Uploaded: 2014-11-07T23:03:31+00:00
Duration: 1 min 22 s
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Description: This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Jennifer Carolan: Teachers Test and Pitch…

7 Nov 2014 · 1 min

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This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Jennifer Carolan: Teachers Test and Pitch New Technology" (created November 7, 2014). The excerpt is from a spoken discussion or interview (transcript labels SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) about changes in K–12 edtech adoption: contrasting 1990s top-down, vendor-driven rollouts led by IT specialists with the more recent teacher-driven adoption where teachers trial tools, gather classroom efficacy data, and then pitch purchases to school leaders. The speakers also note a shift in entrepreneurs entering education—more founders coming from engineering and consumer tech.

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Technology used to come to— come into schools, innovation came in a car. So the salesperson would drive up and have some CD-ROMs and show the IT specialist, there's Oregon Trail or whatever the software was, and the IT specialist would purchase that technology often without talking to teachers and without having any data on the efficacy of this product and then they would roll it out to the teachers, kind of top-down, force teachers to use it and that's the way technology was— came to our schools in the '90s. But now thankfully, the way it's happening is that that these teachers are adopting the technology into their classroom, they're using it, they're understanding how it works with their students, they're getting efficacy data doing kind of mini research in their own classrooms and then they will kind of pitch their school leader to purchase the software license. Wow, that's— that's a real shift. It's huge.
It's like the difference between PCs entering the corporation versus mainframes being controlled by a single department and a CIO.
Yeah, same ideas like consumerization of IT, right? Like—
That's a great insight. And— but have the entrepreneurs themselves changed? I mean, do they all have the same vision that they had in the '90s or are they more savvy, less savvy, same problems, different problems?
So yeah, you saw two of them up there. I am biased, of course, but I think they are amazing. Like these entrepreneurs are— We have more entrepreneurs coming from engineering and from the consumer tech sector coming into education.