By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social Education Technology: An open book with a window into teaching and learning, conveying the use of technology through digital media and online platforms, through networks and the Internet. As a developer of an education technology product, my eye was naturally caught by two recent news stories on the topic. On February 27, the government finally agreed to re-start the two programs that fund most of the newest educational technology products that spin-out from universities. Those programs are the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Each federal department has such programs. For education technologies, that used to be the Department of Education, now effectively shut down.…