Like latchkey kids in the ’80s, today’s students make do with what they have. But when schoolwork is online, internet access isn’t optional—it’s essential.
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The evolution of distance learning from correspondence courses to interactive online education has reshaped how students learn and educators teach.
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Digital Literacy – Support from Librarians
In this article by Susanna Clavello, she shares the importance of librarians as information experts for the modern student.
Adam Geller, Edthena co-founder and CEO, joined Dr. Berger to discuss the ongoing development and support for teachers needed for 21st century schools to succeed.
Tyler DeWitt, Paul Andersen, and Patrick Jones discuss the role flipped learning plays in education through video instructional content SXSW Edu
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From PC Magazine: Online Education: The Year Ahead
Online education will grow up by scaling down. In spite of the practical and theoretical possibilities of e-learning, the very qualities that have enabled massive open online courses (or MOOCs) to serve prodigious numbers of learners—machine-graded assessment, prescriptive course design, and self-paced enrollment—have also tend to promote antiquated pedagogy, curtail student engagement, and preclude a sense of cohort. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Can 4-year-olds learn what they need to know for kindergarten by sitting in front of a computer for 15 minutes a day?Utah is betting they can. This year, more than 6,600 children across the state are learning by logging on to laptops at home in a taxpayer-funded online preschool program that is unlike any other.