Teachers College, Columbia University, is the first and largest graduate school of education in the United States, and also perennially ranked among the nation s best.
ALL ABOUT CONNECTION The winning entry in this year’s INA competition
StorySky, an app to connect grandparents and children reflected the contest s focus on technology to help overcome the isolation imposed by the COVID pandemic.
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TC’s student EdTech showcase yields tools for overcoming social distance
When first-year students David Zikovitz (Instructional Technology & Media), Ying-Chen Lin (Instructional Technology & Media), Mulan Fu (Design & Development of Digital Games) and Marina Lemee (Computing in Education) teamed up to enter Teachers College’s 2020 EdTech Innovation Award (INA) Showcase, they had only a vague idea about creating some kind of online socialization app for children.