Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, comments on digital equity; why the internet has just become a major need, not just a want; and how school could change for the better next fall.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/04/20
Most K-12 educators are still not ready to teach online. It would be foolhardy to overlook this reality.
Doing school work remotely is different from handling it in-person. For one, teachers can't necessarily see how a student is accomplishing class work and may therefore make faulty assumptions about how it was done; and two, the education technology that facilitates online learning collects data on the student and the interactions, frequently without the student even knowing, let alone opting in.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/30/20
Make sure your district is covering the legal basics as you develop your remote instruction efforts.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/23/20
CrossBraining has launched an enhanced version of its program for experiential learning and assessment.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/21/20
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education has launched a set of free resources intended to help teachers and faculty in K-20 with their transitions to remote teaching and learning.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/16/20
Mobile education applications have experienced a 90 percent increase in weekly downloads usage worldwide between the last three months of 2019 and the first three months of 2020, according to a new analysis by App Annie.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/09/20
Some students are using Minecraft during their "self-quarantines" to recreate their campuses. And at least one group is planning a national graduation ceremony to take place in their virtual world.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/02/20
Common Sense has launched an online school to help educators and families cope with remote learning and teaching. "Wide Open School," as it's called, features resources curated by the media organization and provided by a number of well known education content providers, including Khan Academy, Scholastic, Time for Kids, National Geographic, PBS, Sesame Workshop and others. The daily learning activities are organized by grade band and subject.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/01/20
As coronavirus changes life as we knew it, these education experts offer advice on how to make the transition to online instruction.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/23/20