How EdTech Can Simplify Teachers' Lives with Henry Mann
There are more demands on teachers' time than ever before as they teach in-person and remote students simultaneously. They are available to respond to student emails at all hours, offer emotional support, and learn how to teach their entire curriculum in an entirely new way. They are superheroes.
But for some teachers, their workload has reached crisis levels, taking their limited PTO to get caught up on grading because that's what is best for their students. A job where you need to take a day off to do work isn't a sustainable one.
That's where EdTech comes in. Henry Mann joins EdTech Heroes host Nef to talk about how EdTech's role should be to make a teacher's life easier, help students share their learning and help teachers support other teachers.
Episode chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Why teachers really are superheroes
09:10 - Why a teacher-first focus on technology is important
13:16 - Adapting technology to the changes in education
27:28 - Discussing the new Screencastify
35:28 - Where video is going in the future