GRREC hosts 2026 Ed Tech Ambassadors in Warren County

WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – As technology advances, teachers across the Commonwealth are keeping up by learning everything they can.

Ed Tech Ambassadors gathered at Green River Education Cooperative to help increase student knowledge when it comes to technology in and out of the classroom.

Ashley Vincent, the digital learning coach for WCPS, shares,  “We’ve talked to them about artificial intelligence. We’ve talked to them about 3D printing and green screen technology. And so this group has really taken those things that we’ve taught them. And embedded it in their curriculum.”

Giving the teachers the technology before it reaches the classroom doesn’t just help them; it also impacts the students.

Taylor Nash, an Ed Tech Ambassador and ESL teacher at Greenwood High School, says, “It’s all about building the capacity of your teachers to make sure that we are up to date when we’re better able to use technology. We’re better able to incorporate that into the skills and the curriculums building that capacity. It helps children rise up and become the 21st century leaders that we want them to become.”

Vincent also says, “It comes to educational technology, we want students to be creators and not just consumers of technology. So we want these tools in the hands of our students so they can create with technology in terms of creating videos, creating infographics. Coding robots.”

The knowledge gained in this session and others like it will impact the future of each student who utilizes the new equipment.

Taylor adds, “It’s made a difference in how I teach. It’s made a difference in, the outcomes that I’m seeing with my students, and it’s making me more effective. More efficient, in lesson planning and, and it I feel like it also helps, the teachers around the students around me to, make themselves a little bit more proficient in the technology that we use every day and oftentimes take for granted.”