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    Make P.E. great—for the first time?

    August 30, 2019 | by Michael B. Horn

    When I first began researching the field of online learning in K–12 education, I was surprised to learn that one of the most popular online offerings was physical education (P.E.). P.E.? How could that be done online? But when I stepped back and reflected, I remembered that for many middle and high schoolers, traditional P.E. […]

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    Teachers Shouldn’t Have To Work Alone—And Now They Don’t Have To

    June 7, 2018 | by Michael B. Horn

    With the rise of online learning in schools—what educators call blended learning—what teachers do daily is changing in big and small ways. A central question is what will teaching look like in the future, as online learning can increasingly help students learn knowledge personalized to their specific learning need. Recent research even suggests that learning […]

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    New research answers whether technology is good or bad for learning

    November 17, 2017 | by Michael B. Horn

    For years educators and scholars have debated whether technology aids learning or inhibits it. In the most recent issue of Education Next, for example, Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael S. Walker write about their research finding that allowing any computer usage in the classroom “reduces students’ average final-exam performance by roughly one-fifth of a standard […]

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