The Test for Cyber Schools
Interesting article in today’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the fate of Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools—publicly funded, fully online schools that students “attend” on a full-time basis. With over...
View ArticleMore on Open Content, Digital Textbooks
Here’s a nice primer from the Education Commission of the States that outlines various state initiatives and explains the differences among traditional, digital, and open textbooks. This is an...
View ArticleTwo more things…
Piggybacking on what my colleague Bill Tucker writes below about the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning, a report released this morning by Digital Learning Now, there are two other issues...
View ArticleGood Teaching Trumps Hi-Tech
This Sunday’s front page New York Times article by technology reporter Matt Richtel was ostensibly an examination of why, in classrooms outfitted with lots of digital gear, test scores were stagnant....
View ArticleThinking and Talking about Tech
The New York Times’ Sunday front page story by Matt Richtel stirred up lots of commentary on the value of digital media and computers in classrooms. The Hechinger Report did a roundup of the comments...
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Six Insights from New NCES Data on K-12 Distance Education
New 2009-10 school year survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics confirms the rapid growth of K-12 technology-based distance education enrollments, from an estimated 317,070 in...
View ArticleDigital Textbooks, OER, and more from Digital Learning Day
Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski made the Obama Administration’s big announcement at yesterday’s Digital Learning Day festivities: the release of a “digital textbook playbook” to...
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