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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate. Ninety five percent of students in the district are Hispanic. Does it work?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within two to three years’ time; funnily enough, the 2016 report offered the same outlook: we’re still two to three years out from widespread adoption of VR.

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