January 27, 2022 Online learning reemerged from its niche roles during COVID by necessity. John Watson, principal of Evergreen Research and the Digital Learning Collaborative, shares his deep wisdom regarding
A colleague put an interesting question to me recently: Why did schools struggle with online learning so much during COVID given that it’s been around longer than most teachers have
After a tumultuous end to the 2020 Spring Semester due to COVID-19, Fall 2020 brought a waning summer pandemic surge, and many school leaders yearned for a return to normalcy.
The Kiski School, an all-boys boarding school located just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, has been involved with online education in one form or another since 2007. I have been teaching
In March 2021, I was an online guest participant in an Economics class. My role was to listen to presentations given by two teams of students and ask challenging questions
We sometimes look to post-secondary education to inform our perspectives on digital learning in the K-12 landscape. A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reminds us why this
This year of learning in a pandemic has seen new devices and other hardware brought to the schoolhouse, new learning platforms and applications provided to support instruction, and, for many
The most frequent concerns I hear about students’ technology use at school focus on their lack of, well, focus. Technology administrators choose from any number of online platforms with which
We have spent much of the last year listening to reports that online learning is failing students. The story goes something like this: Covid put an end to in-person education,