The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. on March 18, 2020. on April 10, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Instead of huddling with my students, smiling and giving fist bumps, I sat in my corner of the room, providing feedback on their Google Docs from behind my laptop. As difficult as in-person learning was, remote days were worse. Online learning platforms varied by teacher and class. Emojis weren’t cutting it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

It’s the same Monday to Friday routine: Get up, change clothes, have breakfast, and turn on the laptops. Did you turn on your laptops? He turns on his laptop and waits anxiously for his classmates to say, “Good morning.” Each boy likes to eat something different for breakfast. De La Torre shouts from the kitchen.

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Laptops Blackboard Study Report 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While students ultimately may go back to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a possibility for suspended students “whenever feasible,” he says. Robinson says. Until that is completely addressed, the impact of the disproportionality can be significantly minimized or mitigated.”. Everybody needs a check-in.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 142

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When the boys’ no-fee private school reopened to in-person learning more quickly than Gaddie thought was safe, she enrolled them in the tribally controlled public school she’d gone to as a child. It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” They’re average.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. (The

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Personalized Learning Learning Common Core Elementary 40

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Company 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. In the meantime, some school districts have decided that providing virtual learning may not be worth the effort. And now it’s all taken away.” said Glick. “I

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 140

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. Prepackaged lessons from an online curriculum provider comprised about 80 percent of students’ work in the first year.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

If you need to hear a positive outlook and some inspiration about distance/hybrid learning right now, I think you’ll really enjoy this conversation. On teacher clarity in online learning: We have to make sure we’re communicating with students and their families about when they need to be on and what they need to be doing.

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Learning Trends Elementary Groups 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 122

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

EdTech 145

EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

Doug Levin

AUGUST 17, 2017

They also are more likely to support school-provided laptops for high school student use in the classroom for educational purposes (83 percent strongly or somewhat support) than parents (77 percent) or the general population (68 percent). One can only hope that research on online learning quality is attended to in those debates.

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Digital Learning Learning Outcomes Equity of Access 186