How Do You Build a Career in EdTech?

These teachers know tech. Steve Dembo and Victoria Thompson teach in K-12 and are also educational technology consultants. Steve is a middle school teacher and founder of the edtech consulting and training company Teach42, based out of Chicago, and Victoria is a math teacher in Washington and consults on edtech products for different large corporations. They guested on the show to describe how they got into this career path and what the field may look like in the future. Rachel Fahrig moderated the conversation, which is the postponed live podcast panel originally planned for SXSW Edu 2020. Related to this episode: • Original SXSW Edu 2020 panel, before COVID-19: https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2020/events/PP102219 • Victoria Thompson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/victoriathetech • Steve Dembo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/teach42 • Teach42: http://www.teach42.com/ • Microsoft Educator Center: https://education.microsoft.com/en-us • ISTE, International Society for Technology in Education: https://www.iste.org/ • Discovery Education: https://www.discoveryeducation.com/ • Schoology: https://www.schoology.com/ • Microsoft Teams for Education: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/teams • Jennifer Jeffries on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennthetutor • Adam Yankay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itsamry • Zoom for Education: https://zoom.us/education • Pear Deck: https://www.peardeck.com/ • Oculus Go: https://www.oculus.com/go/ • Oculus Quest: https://www.oculus.com/quest/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.