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OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now

The Hechinger Report

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. Now, almost every state does.

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

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. As we’ve seen over the last two years, educational equity, crisis preparedness and access to technology are deeply intertwined.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

That’s also why we are crowdsourcing ideas from the many outstanding schools and districts across the country on how to run results-based ed-tech pilots. So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from? “We first piloted an adaptive math program with elementary school students. ” Jerry Snow.

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The Value of Googleable Questions?

Tech Helpful

At that point in her school life, she didn't have easy accessibility to technology. With educational technology comes faster access to information and opinions. Now that educators are seeing the value of students having authentic audiences, we are suggesting to students to create an online presence of their learning. elementary?

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What a blended learning classroom really looks like: An urban teacher’s reboot

The Hechinger Report

In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. How you group students, spend time with students, deliver content and create the learning environment is adaptive. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop. What are they doing with them?

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand. They could easily access a library of lessons and assessments I’d created from scratch, or use. If that sounds like a lot of work, it was.