This is a report from the BETT London show (formerly known as the 'British Educational Training and Technology Show', but we can't have meaningful names any more). The headlines from this year's BETT were about what you would expect, so no need to linger on them. In this article Natalia Kucirkova argues that what new is "a broader cultural change: even new companies understand that evidence is no longer a 'nice to have,' but a core expectation of serious EdTech." This focus on impact is intuitively appealing, but hides a hidden caveat: there can't be different sorts of programs leading to different outcomes any more. The measurement becomes the standard. So we see, for example, "Turkey shared that it has adopted the EduEvidence certification scheme to ensure its testbed efforts align with international criteria for what 'good' looks like." Is that what we want?
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