2025 UEN Tech Summit

The tech sector has been through rollercoaster employment swings over the past 5 years. We'll look at the broader macroeconomic picture and where tech employment, profits, and locations are heading.

The economic outlook is more uncertain than it has been, with weak revenue growth, a slower labor market, and geopolitical pressure. This session looks at the macroeconomic outlook for 2024 and 2025 by economist Thomas Young.

Join us as we share how bridging the digital divide can be more than just providing physical access to computers and broadband. You'll learn about the components necessary when providing equitable access and how they work together to bridge the digital divide in K-12 education.

Review of the research and address how overwhelming, even though the questions focused on physical access the conversations continued to bring up other components of addressing the digital divide (motivation/attitude, digital skills, and usage) - share the Model of Equitable Technology and the Utah Equitable Access of the Digital Divide framework and talk through how they can be used when planning for and talking about what can be done to bridge the digital divide - provide opportunities for participants to talk in small groups and share ideas/thoughts via a backchannel using Padelt - about what they do to address motivation/attiude, digital skills, physical access, usage. - bring group together and talk through what was shared on the padlet as well as allow participants to ask questions and share out.

Over the last several years and through the pandemic, K12 technologist across the state have made huge strides in providing educational technology tools/resources for enhancing educational technology tools/resources for extending education and distance learning through the use of technology. We will share key data points from the 2023 K12 Inventory and discuss how we are inventorying DT&L resources in the future. We will review and take feedback on the inventory reports and gather feedback for future inventories. Action items will be kept and used for the next integration for the inventory in 2025.

You may find the slide deck at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11kpW83PFJ_x_HMmPJHPYdXARmbyX_rpyxMxqbbL-QbY/edit?usp=sharing