This is Jennifer Gonzalez, welcoming you to episode 241 of the Cultive Pedagogy podcast. In this episode,

we're going to talk about six ed tech tools you should try in 2025. Every January for the last 10 years, we have chosen a small collection of tech tools we think are worth checking out.

That will be the same this year, and that's what we will be talking about in this episode.

But something else is going to be different this year. Because traditionally,

when we put out this list, we do it to coincide with the release of our annual teacher's guide

to tech. This year, we're not releasing an annual version of the tech guide, not in the same way

that we always have. Past versions of the guide have been in

PDF form. We created a brand new version once a year and released it just once a year. Starting now in

2025, we have moved the entire guide online to Teachers Guide to Tech.com. And from from here on out it'll be accessible through a

subscription rather than a downloadable PDF. We made this change for two reasons. First because creating

the update every year took about two solid months. Every November and December, I was completely consumed with updating

the tech guide, and that kept me from doing pretty much anything else. I turned down speaking

offers, I cut back on podcast creation, and work on any other project had to come to a complete

standstill because of the tech guide. We had to get it as close to perfect as possible

for that once a year release, and that was a lot of pressure. And once it was released, the guide

would slowly start to depreciate and value over the year. As links broke, tools changed their

names or disappeared completely, videos suddenly vanished from YouTube,

and new tools came on the scene that had no mention in that year's guide.

Moving the guide online will allow us to update it anytime we want.

This means the content will stay fresh all year

and will never again have to concentrate all of our update work

into the end of the calendar year.

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