Online education
Students: School a Technology Downgrade
Teenagers are speaking up once again—stating that, in technology, school is a big downgrade from what they experience, and expect, in the rest of their lives.
That message comes through in new data from Project Tomorrow, the nonprofit group, once called NetDay, that has surveyed school communities across the United States since 1993.
The Speak Up 2008 [...]
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 [...]
Study: One million U.S. students in online learning
About 1,030,000 students were enrolled in online or “blended learning” courses in K-12 in the 2007-08 academic year, out of 49 million students in U.S. public schools, according to a new study by the Sloan Consortium, a nonprofit research collaborative based in Needham, Mass. That figure was up from 700,000 students in courses that were [...]
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 [...]
