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Thanks to technology, American students now have access to a digital toolbox – ranging from online courses and textbooks to educational websites, videos, games, quizzes, and even artificial intelligence (AI) – from which to enhance their learning process. It has also become common for educational institutions in the United States to rely on educational technology, or edtech, to monitor student activity, facilitate course management, report grades, and promote communication between educators, students, and their families. Over the last few years, the use of edtech increased significantly; as schools shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, students nationwide had to resort to taking classes online, making the use of a digital platform essentially necessary for learning. Post-pandemic, it seems evident that edtech has a prominent future in America’s colleges and classrooms. As of 2022, many students remain enrolled in higher education courses either exclusively or partially online and the average number of edtech tools accessed in K-12 schools during the 2023-24 school year reached over 2,700 per district, a vast increase from the 895 edtech tools accessed per district in 2018.