An instrument for the pedagogical reflection of using digital educational media
The interactive online version guides you step by step through all the questions of the EdTechReflector and provides an automatic categorization into a pedagogical type at the end. This gives you direct feedback on the pedagogical characteristics that dominate in the selected tool. Moreover, further background information is provided for reflection on the implications of the EdTechReflector questions.
Answer the following 20 questions by selecting the answers that apply to the edtech tool you wish to examine. Simply click “Start”!
Would you like to learn more about what it means when an edtech tool works primarily in an instructional-reactive, adaptive-supportive or reflective-creative way? On our overview page, you will find a detailed description of all three types:
Note: For technical reasons, it is not possible to display how the proportions of the three pedagogical types are distributed within a tested edtech tool or, for example, to award points instead of providing yes/no answer options. The interactive EdTechReflector remains a model that represents reality imperfectly and is intended solely to prompt reflection. However, our analogue Tool Compass allows for a transparent representation of the distribution of the three pedagogical types within an edtech tool.
In-depth background information
To explore the questions from the EdTechReflector in greater depth (for example when your school wants to purchase a new edtech tool), you can find further reflection prompts on selected questions here:
The EdTechReflector is available under an open licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may use, adapt and republish its content, provided that modified versions are also made freely available and that the authors are credited:
Iza Czarnojan, Sigrid Hartong, Sieglinde Jornitz, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Christoph Richter, Ina Sander and Nadja Schürmann (2026). EdTechReflector 2.0 An instrument for the pedagogical reflection of using digital educational media.
You can find further formation here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.