Back in the day when you had to purchase records and listen to music on the radio, there used to be stations that carried a weekly top 40 show during which the program host would count down (play) the most popular songs of the week from the bottom to the top. Thinking about the title now I would have to guess at why 40 was the magical number. I asked Google and speculation was that 40 was the number of 45s a jukebox held or the number of songs that could be played during the most popular shows.
I came across an annual top 40 that lists the popularity of EdTech Top 40.
Learn Platform makes an extension available that allows the use of applications to be quantified. The company can then provide data on use at a national level, but individual districts can also collect data on use within a district. The company proposes that it may be helpful to identify whether intended applications are actually being used and to identify applications that just show up.
The company collected data from more than 250,000 educators and 2,000,000 students during this past year. The composite data allow an interested party to consider the most popular edtech services used by educators or students across 10 different categories. The voluntary nature of participation (at least at the level of a district) could easily bias the data collected as far as what typical use might be, but the relative rank of different applications and changes from one year to the next could be useful especially to those of us who from time to time comment on trends and perhaps make decisions about the preparation of future educators.
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