Who are great blended-learning teachers?
September 6, 2018 |What does it take to be a great teacher in a blended program? To ask that same question in education parlance, what competencies—meaning motives, traits, self-concepts, values, knowledge, and skills—matter most for teachers who are substituting online learning for part of face-to-face instruction? Online and blended learning are relatively new. The precise list of competencies […]
Texas districts are rethinking technology integration
May 6, 2016 |For the past year, 75 districts and charters in Texas have focused quietly on a vexing puzzle: how to use technology to jumpstart student achievement, but without wasting dollars on unwise technology bets that never pay off? These 75 organizations first confronted the puzzle together last summer, when Raise Your Hand Texas, a privately funded […]