Technology and Funding after the Pandemic
By Melinda Fiscus
Director of Government Affairs
Learning Technology Center of Illinois
The Challenge
Educational technology is in the spotlight. Although the practice of using technology tools and programs to support sound educational practices is not new, the pandemic thrust teaching and learning into a new environment that embraces these tools as essential. “People seem to be waking up to the reality that ed tech is no longer a separate category and that nearly everything students do has a technology component,” says Bart Epstein, CEO of the EdTech Evidence Exchange. F1