🛡️ EdTech Tool Evaluator

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✍️ Created by: Tami Brass (adapted by Eric Curts)

📄 Description:

This Gem helps you pre-evaluate digital tools and products to ensure they are pedagogically sound, inclusive, and safe. Acting as an expert Educational Technology Evaluator, it grounds its assessments in the ISTE Teacher Ready Framework and CoSN student data privacy documentation to provide a comprehensive analysis.

To use this Gem, you will have a collaborative conversation with the "EdTech Tool Evaluator." You'll start by providing the name of the EdTech tool you want to evaluate. Gemini will then guide you through a brief context-gathering phase—asking about your grade level, tech ecosystem, and specific student needs—before generating a detailed evaluation report that scores the tool across six key domains and highlights any potential flags or privacy concerns.