How can blended learning make things better for teachers? See Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession, part of the Digital Learning Now! Smart Series, which Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Public Impact’s co-directors, wrote with John Bailey of Digital Learning Now! and Carri Schneider and Tom Vander Ark of Getting Smart.
A Better Blend: Digital Instruction + Great Teaching
Blended learning holds unique promise to improve student outcomes dramatically. Schools will not realize this promise with technology improvements alone, though, or with technology and today’s typical teaching roles. In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity-rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale. We call this a “better blend”: combining high-quality digital learning and excellent teaching
A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning
Brief explains how blended learning that combines digital instruction with live, accountable teachers holds unique promise to improve student outcomes dramatically.
Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession
Paper explains how blended learning can help create better teaching conditions and expanded career opportunities for teachers.
Interventions and Catalysts in Markets for Education Technology
Paper identifies and catalogs the core components of education technology markets that city-based funders might support.
Scaling a Successful Pilot to Expand Blended Learning Options Citywide
Paper examines four approaches to scaling a successful blended learning initiative.
Quakertown Community School District: An Approach to Blended Learning That Focuses on District Leadership, Staffing, and Cost-Effectiveness
Case study profiles Quakertown Community School District’s K-12 blended learning program.
Missing the Mark at the Arizona State Ed Tech Summit
As Stacey Childress and many others have pointed out, Andy Kessler’s closing remarks at this week’s big ed-tech conference at Arizona State University went way off track. By positioning technology as a way to replace teachers, Kessler missed the mark on two key points.
First, great teaching will matter more, not less, in the digital age. As we’ve written here and here, digital learning has the potential to level the educational playing field on learning the basics. As digital content gets better and better, students around the globe will be able to learn basic content and practice skills through this new medium.
How Digital Learning Can (and Must) Help Excellent Teachers Reach More Children
In this blog post for the Innosight Institute (now the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation), Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel argue that “schools – and nations – that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively […]
Encouraging Social Innovation Through Capital: Using Technology to Address Barriers
Report examines how technology can optimize the flow of investment capital to drive innovation in public education.
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
Book chapter proposes that “digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first-rate teaching profession needs digital education.”
How digital learning can (and must) help excellent teachers reach more children
Blog post argues that digital tools should be used both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers.