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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

Still, teachers are tirelessly putting in their best effort to make distance learning work for their students. In many cases, parent involvement understandably extends to supporting students in taking online assessments. Teachers adapted from screen to screen, gave step-by-step directions out loud.”.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. “I can’t speak for other companies, but I have a lot of confidence in the reliability of our online assessments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. And schools are having to revamp their anti-smoking policies and lessons in order to account for the rise of the popular new vaping technology.

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