After weeks or months of online-only learning, students, teachers, administrators and parents have returned to classrooms with greater access to devices and internet connection, as well as new digital skills. In that sense, the disruption in the classroom that we imagined when contemplating this white paper — the disruption that would require meaningful tech integration — has already happened. Technology was forcefully and somewhat chaotically integrated into every classroom, ready or not, in 2020.
Rather than make “In Pursuit of Disruptive Tech Integration for Meaningful Learning” obsolete, the pandemic made it even more urgent and important. With the immediate crisis now behind us, educators must assess how to thoughtfully and meaningfully integrate technology into their classrooms, creating a new normal. This prescient white paper is your guide for these times.
Christine Byrd
Author at Learning.com
Christine has over 17 years of experience as an award-winning writer, thorough researcher, detail-oriented editor, and communications strategist. She specializes in providing internal and external communications for corporate, academic and nonprofit leaders.
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District Prepares Students on Many Devices, with Many Skills
Madison County Schools in Jackson, Mississippi, provides digital equity to its 13,000 students through Learning.com’s EasyTech.
Discover the Truth About Digital Literacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly elevated the primacy of digital literacy and utilization, both for students of all ages and employees across nearly every industry. Now, over a year later, it’s safe to say nearly every teacher and student uses a device to enable some or all of their education. Technology has been integrated into every single subject, from P.E. to music and math to history. However even through all this, are both students and teachers efficiently prepared and educated in digital literacy?
Gearing Up for the New(est) Normal in Learning
Gearing up means a recognition that the traditional schooling model has shifted significantly, requiring new skills, particularly student digital literacy. What are the moves to make, what to gear up and how. Finally, what comes after digital literacy. What do you need to attend to now to ensure success for all students?