Andrew Westrope
Managing Editor, Center for Digital Education at Government Technology
Managing editor, @CenterDigitalEd. MI native, BS in physiology, I love film+lit. We all contain multitudes. Tweets are mine and represent no one else.
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1 month ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
Over the course of seven years as New Jersey’s chief technology officer, Chris Rein has honed an approach to IT that one might call responsible modernization. A steady focus on critical infrastructure over costly experimentation helped prepare the state for transitions to cloud, hybrid work and other new norms. Now, it’s helping Rein balance innovation with fiscal strategy in finding the safest and smartest uses of artificial intelligence for the state. As co-chair of Gov.
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2 months ago |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
By some accounts, the loss of pandemic-era grant funding, diversity and equity initiatives, the Institute of Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education within a six-month span has K-12 districts across the U.S. reeling. But some education leaders, who have seen disruption many times before, remain sanguine about planning for the future.
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Feb 5, 2025 |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
Co-leading the Jan. 17 event, Leslie Fisher, director of Fisher Technologies Inc., said the technological breakthroughs driving many new artificial intelligence (AI) tools could be game-changers for students with learning disabilities.
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Jan 30, 2025 |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
ESSER is over. E-rate is in doubt. The future of the U.S. Department of Education is unclear. For all the fiscal turmoil of pandemic expenses and changing presidential administrations in recent years, some educators think long-term planning for technology in K-12 is only going to get harder. Amid so much uncertainty, panelists at the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando this month said the trick is to craft technology plans with the assumption of change built into them.
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Jan 28, 2025 |
govtech.com | Andrew Westrope
The budgeting process for school districts was challenging enough before it necessarily involved so much attention on fast-moving and controversial technologies, but a few years into the artificial intelligence craze, administrators have learned some lessons.
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