UNL’s Tech EDGE earns national recognition

Tech EDGE earns technology best practice award from AACTE.
Tech EDGE earns technology best practice award from AACTE.

Tech EDGE, a collaborative partnership between UNL and eight Nebraska PK-12 partner school districts, has been awarded the 2016 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. AACTE will present the award to Guy Trainin and Laurie Friedrich from the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, on Feb. 25 at the group’s annual conference in Las Vegas.

Tech EDGE, developed by Trainin, assistant professor, and Friedrich, a faculty affiliate, through a grant from the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, incorporates a variety of instructional strategies to prepare preservice and inservice teachers with research and theory grounded in practical best practices in technology integration.

Read more about this innovative program's award below.

More details at: http://go.unl.edu/e82o