Edtech Confidential

Thoughts on K12 edtech from someone building it.

By Adam Sparks

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Can evidence compete with a story people want to believe?

Folks are beginning to push back on the anti-edtech narrative. Will anyone care?

Jun 12 • Adam Sparks

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An FDA for EdTech and Other Policy Reforms

Why we should focus on instructional quality rather than the medium

May 19 • Adam Sparks

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Edtech is worth fighting for (2 of 2)

The case against blanket "Edtech" bans and a discussion of the evidence that's being manipulated and ignored in "The Digital Delusion."

Feb 24 • Adam Sparks

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Edtech is worth fighting for (1 of 2)

The case against blanket "edtech" bans and a discussion of the evidence that's being manipulated and ignored.

Feb 16 • Adam Sparks

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Edtech needs more dialectical thinking

As the anti-edtech movement grows, our community needs to start deliberately engaging with ideas and beliefs that are contrary to our own.

Jun 27, 2025 • Adam Sparks

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Crying in the vendor hall

When the fluorescent lights of the vendor hall were, ever so briefly, "on fire with the same force that lit the stars."

Feb 11, 2025 • Adam Sparks

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AI detection doesn’t work. Here's the evidence & what we should do instead.

Note: This was originally written as a guest post for the Ditch that Textbook blog.

Aug 4, 2024 • Adam Sparks

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Free as a matter of course

Flip was an incredible learning tool until it wasn't. We should consider what its fate says about the implications of "free" in K12 edtech.

Jun 4, 2024 • Adam Sparks

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