Congratulations to Professor Erin Ottmar, who was chosen as the invited plenary speaker at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Annual PI Meeting in Washington DC. The focus of the meeting was on the connections between research and practice in education. The plenary talk, titled Edtech: The Buzz, the Promise, the Evidence, and the Future, focused on the trends, promising applications, the appropriate use of technology, and research challenges in EdTech.