By Elizabeth Englander Professor of Psychology, and the Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), Bridgewater State University (excerpt from theconversation.com) With the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic getting worse in most of the country, a growing number of school districts from San Francisco to Atlanta have determined that a return to daily in-person instruction isn’t yet safe or viable. They aim to…
By Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith and Sophie Yates (theconversation.com) Only 22% of family members and carers of students with a disability agreed they had received adequate educational support during the pandemic. Many respondents in our new research, and survey, on behalf of Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) reported being forgotten in the shift to remote learning, or…
By Benedict Carey (The New York Times) As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t. Nate Zim, a junior at Lab High School in Manhattan, with his mother, Corey Zim, at home in March as he logged onto his first virtual classroom, a Spanish class.Credit…Benjamin Norman for The New York Times Over…
By, Fun Man Fung, Ng Tao Tao Magdeline, Robert K Kamei (Excerpt from theconversation.com) Research has shown students learn better when they are actively engaged in the learning process, rather than just passively listening to a lecture. However, the coronavirus pandemic has forced what many thought would never happen: online courses extensively replacing traditional programs. Over the past three years, our faculty team and teaching assistants at…
The rush of colleges and universities to complete the current academic year online in response to the COVID-19 crisis, and possibly prepare hastily for the same delivery mode this coming fall, could well result in unprecedented turbulence for faculty, students and families. The unavoidable haste of implementation presents a highly uneven and potentially unsatisfying educational experience — threatening to further…
By, Penny Bishop Associate Dean and Professor of Middle Level Education, University of Vermont (excerpt from theconversation.com) Editor’s note: The term “personalized learning” is becoming more common. Indeed, 39 states mention personalized learning in their school improvement plans, as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act. Not only are states legislating personalized learning, but philanthropists are funding it and, in some cases, families are pushing back against it. Penny…
By Carlo Perrotta, Senior lecturer, Monash University (excerpt from theconversation.com) The spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 is a public health emergency with economic and social ramifications in China and across the world. While the impacts on business are well documented, education is also facing the largest disruption in recent memory. Institutions around the world are responding to travel…