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Online Learning in the Spotlight
Online education gets a thorough workout in the new “Technology Counts” report, released today by Education Week. (Subscription required for full access.) Full disclosure: I covered technology for this newspaper and wrote articles in the previous 12 editions of this report. This year’s report gives examples of established and nascent forms of online education, some [...]
Best Technology Plug-in: Better Teachers?
Without good teaching, technology in the classroom simply does not yield educational benefits for students.
An obvious assertion? Perhaps so, but the notion that technology can succeed where teachers failed is a persistent idea, which many vendors of ed-tech “solutions” do not try to discourage.
What’s more, educational software developers have sometimes told me, a reporter, that [...]
