Transformative Experiences Digitally Lit #254 – 7/11/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #254 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this newsletter to show up in your inbox. Feel free to reach…
Preparing for the storm Digitally Lit #246 – 5/16/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #246 of Digitally Literate. This week I hosted the NCTE Twitter chat with Robyn Seglem on Literacy in Digital Times. You can read the archive of this chat here. I also helped post the following: Trauma informed teaching during COVID-19: What…
Self-preservation, not self-indulgence Digitally Lit #239 – 3/28/2020** Hi all, welcome back. I hope all is well with you…and those around you. Last week I talked about the Online Learning Collective Facebook Group that I helped start up. As of this morning, there are almost 23,000 members in the group. We’re also painfully aware that…
Online course offerings in the United States have expanded. In both K12 and higher education options for students to take whole courses, blended courses and—in some places—entire degree programs online are more prevalent than ever.
Research presented in EdSurge, but here is the real takeaway. Bad teaching is bad teaching…online or off. Patrick R. Lowenthal, an associate professor of educational technology at Boise State University, notes that he was one of those professors who began to view online learning more favorably after engaging with the medium back on 2001. Since…
Our market is just catching up. Here’s where it’s going.
There’s a major shift occurring in the world of small business education, coaching, and training. This third group has employed the “gatekeeper model” — which thrives by sequestering “the good stuff” behind a paywall. The reason they’re experiencing diminishing returns is simple…The rest of the market has already moved away from gatekeepers and towards the Access…
“When you eliminate the school, we’ve seen what happens to these small towns,” a school board member said. “We didn’t want our community to die.”
A case study of a distance ed program in Modoc, Indiana. The report focuses on the Indiana Digital Learning School, which serves students in K through 9th grade. The report shares: Public school advocates are concerned that the district is acting out of a sense of desperation for dollars because consolidation is on the horizon…