From the course: Betsy Corcoran on Choosing the Right Technology for Your School

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- I have been a journalist my whole life, and I loved writing about technology. I think of myself as a science journalist. And science journalists love explaining the world and asking questions. And I loved doing that. And what happened was is that after 25 years of writing about technology, I had some sense of where technology was, and then I had kids. And, I was amazed at how the things that my kids were experiencing in school weren't the same things that I'd experienced 30-ish years ago and sort of wondered about this gap between what technology was doing and what I saw happening in schools. And I thought a lot about whether there was some way that I could help bridge these two worlds. And it was at a time when educators were starting to ask the same question. So it was a video that came out called Shift Happens, and millions of teachers saw it. Millions of people saw it. And it kind of asked the same question. Like, "Wow, here's our world. "What's going on in the schools?" And so,…

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