Blended Learning
Education news, analysis, and opinion about the approach which combines technology-based instruction with teacher-lead instruction in physical classrooms
Classroom Technology
Q&A
Ed-Tech Skeptic Larry Cuban Finds New Perspective
After three decades of writing about the classroom limitations of technology, the Stanford professor talks about his observations of some promising approaches.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Teach to One: Inventing the Future of Math Learning
In 2007, Joel Rose conceived an idea for an innovative, blended way to teach middle school math. Today, it has spread to over 40 schools reaching 13,000 students. Here's how.
Classroom Technology
Free Electronic Field Trip to Transport Students to Pearl Harbor
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans and a local public TV station plan to webcast an interactive electronic field trip commemorating the 75th anniversary of the attack.
Classroom Technology
Eighth Graders Use Web App to Identify Their Character Strengths
The students said the results that the web app Happify generated for each of them confirmed some thoughts they had about themselves.
Student Well-Being
Online Gaming Platform Aims to Teach Social and Emotional Skills
But the idea that digital tools can benefit students’ social-emotional development is controversial, with critics claiming children are already spending too much time online.
Personalized Learning
'Red Flags' to Look for When Evaluating Personalized Learning Products
Educators are asking tougher questions to sort the real personalized learning potential from the empty promises of some ed-tech products and services.
Classroom Technology
Telecom Sprint Launches Campaign to Close 'Homework Gap'
The wireless provider pledges to bring connectivity to 1 million impoverished students, by offering them free smartphones, tablets, laptops, and "hotspot" devices.
Classroom Technology
Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K-12
Thanks to declining state aid and disappearing federal e-rate subsidies for "legacy" technologies, districts are struggling to pay for telephone equipment and services.
Curriculum
Personalized Learning Considered a Critical Element of the Country's Changing Classrooms
Educators' ability to personalize instruction using technology is imperative as the student population becomes increasingly varied by various factors, according to a new report.
Classroom Technology
ISTE and Chief Executive Officer Brian Lewis Part Ways
ISTE CEO Brian Lewis is no longer serving as its top executive, and the 17,000-member organization is searching for a permanent replacement.
Classroom Technology
Parents' Support for Blended Learning Slips, Poll Finds
A survey found that while fewer parents think students should spend considerable time in front of screens in schools, teacher support was unchanged.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Do We Give Students Too Much Choice?
Student-centered classrooms that use problem-based learning and differentiation are not all that they're cracked up to be, writes teacher Brian Field.
Curriculum
The Challenges in Making Ed-Tech Work, Through the Eyes of K-12 Officials
Education Week conducted video interviews with K-12 officials gathered at ISTE on the biggest challenges they face in making ed-tech work in schools.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Key to Blended Learning: Data-Informed Small Groups
A recent school tour of three Bay Area schools with some blended learning experts helped provide answers to some of the common questions we hear about how to implement blended learning.