Three ways technology can supercharge teacher training (Hechinger Report)

Educators can learn a valuable lesson from American wheat farmers’ progress in the past 125 years.
A farmer in 1890 would invest approximately 40 hours of effort to produce 100 bushels of wheat. Using the methods and the technology of today, it would take a farmer only three hours of effort to produce the same amount of wheat.

What changed, we might ask?

The difference is farmers have chosen to actively adopt new methods and new technology to achieve their goal of producing wheat.

Educators, like farmers, have professional goals. One is to continually increase effectiveness in the classroom.

In the past four decades, many new methods have been adopted by schools to make professional development less sit-and-get and more personalized to teachers’ individual needs.

Now it’s time to adopt the technology that can act as a force multiplier for personalizing professional learning.

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