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  • 🧔‍♂️ From Data to Decisions: Why Educators Deserve Better Tools

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    Posted: September 21, 2025Author: Eric Verno đź“š The Problem Isn’t the Data—It’s the DisconnectEvery week, educators collect mountains of student data. Assessment scores, attendance logs, behavior notes, benchmark results. But too often, that data sits in silos—unread, unshared, and unused. Not because teachers don’t care. Because the tools don’t help.We don’t need more spreadsheets. We…

  • ISTE 2025 on the Horizon

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    OK… Getting my bags packed and ready to go… CUE MUSIC – HA! I’m heading to San Antonio, Texas for another ISTE. I’m very excited to represent PAECT during this trip, yet again. We have accomplished a lot of things this past year and are looking forward to an amazing year to come. I will…

  • ISTE Bound

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    I’m spending some time getting ready for the yearly traverse to ISTE. I’m very appreciative of the organization and how it has held our PAECT org and it’s members to a high regard. I will be presenting, “From Creation to Curation, Podcasts in the Classroom” again this year! I LOVE that we get to share…

  • The latest PAECT Pod

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    Last night Dom and I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Krause of Remake Learning Days and Laura Fririci who is the Career Ready Advisor for Pennsylvania Department of Educaiton. We had great conversations about the program and it’s many benefits. We also had the chance to cover some Teacher Appreciation week items. I will

  • I’ve been busy with the PAECT Pod

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    As many people know, I am heavily involved with the PAECT Organization (www.paect.org). I currently serve as the Vice President of the Organization. We have been working on building our Podcast capacity and started the PAECT Pod over a year ago. Here is our latest video: We will be looking at STEMtober Rewind this Tuesday…

  • Welcome to ISTELive22

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    It has been a long time coming… ISTE22 is back and it is LIVE! We are on the ground in New Orleans, LA awaiting the start to @ISTE. We will be meeting today to talk about the ISTE Affiliates and see how everyone is doing. I’m hoping to come back with some new tech tools…

  • Several Years of STALLED development

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    I am working on making this blog more of a priority this year. I have been doing more traveling and training, so I feel as though I can give more insightful information/reviews/recommendations. I am also looking to have a Video presence. Here’s to future development and success!

  • Welcome to The Bearded Tech

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    Happy New Year!!! It is hard to believe it is 2016. A lot of great things are happening in the world of EdTech! The big companies are doing what they can to reach our classrooms… Apple & iPads/iOS, Google & Chromebooks and Microsoft & Office 365. The goal of BeardedTech is to bring you relevant…