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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

The Hechinger Report

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.”.

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Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?

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Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. What differs is how those reports measure, how many are measured and what exactly they found.

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5 Traps That Will Kill Online Learning (and Strategies to Avoid Them)

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Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Education, Richard is a go-to person for exploring the shift we are experiencing in learning today. It’s painful to watch.

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AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way

The Hechinger Report

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. The post AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Dan Grossman.

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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Learning is personalized, based on school standards. To facilitate this, students are met where they are in their learning, not where the grade level says they should be. Now, with online personalized learning options like CK12 and Khan Academy , this differentiation is easier to create making it a good fit for limited teacher time.

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10 tools for blended schools

eSchool News

Khan Academy. Khan Academy is one of the most well-known content providers on the web today. With hundreds of instructional videos and thousands of practice exercises integrated into a personalized-learning dashboard, Khan Academy helps teachers of almost any subject bring online learning into their classroom.

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Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education

The Hechinger Report

In another GSV Ventures virtual panel, Rooney said educators are realizing that many more students than they previously thought can handle self-directed or online learning. And they are rethinking their preconceptions about how and where learning happens. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.