The skeptics are winning on ed tech. We hear the Music Man pitches at trade shows but see company-funded research, poor utilization rates, and middling outcomes. Ed tech that integrates more seamlessly, into existing software or the LMS, into a culture of nostalgia, or into current daily teaching practices, is the only ed tech that is worth the investment in higher ed. This session will explore those directives with loads of examples of what worked, what didn't, and why. The bottom line is that bad ed tech experiences are worse than bad non-tech experiences in the classroom, especially for historically marginalized populations.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will understand how the three types of ed tech integration work and the outcomes when it does.
• Participants will understand how lack of integration hampers use rates, outcomes, and relationships with stakeholders, as well as disproportionately affecting historically marginalized populations like Black, Latinx, and/or neurodiverse students.
• Participants will develop a critical toolbox for judging integration for new ed tech products.