Florida earns a B+ and ranks second nationally when it comes to embracing policies and practices that advance digital learning, according to a national report released Thursday. The state earned an A or A- in six of 10 categories on the 2012 Digital Learning Report Card, which is compiled by[Read More…]
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Sal Khan: The education establishment is “in violent agreement with us”
In a recent interview with Slate, Khan Academy founder Salman Khan is asked how he gets the education establishment to go along with his vision (and the vision of many others) of using technology to better customize learning. His answer doesn’t include the term “seat time,” but he suggests most of “the[Read More…]
Jeb Bush: It will take leadership to transition to digital age in education
With the creation of The Jetsons in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera projected what 100 years into the future could look like. Set in 2062, The Jetsons lived in an automated, push-button world. Long distance conversations took place face to face through a television screen, groceries were ordered on-line and delivered to[Read More…]
Digital learning helps students ‘where they are and not where we want them to be’
by Star Kraschinsky Florida Virtual School® (FLVS®) opened its virtual doors in August 1997 as the country’s first Internet-based public high school with seven teachers and 77 students. Today, the statewide, public virtual school serves more than 122,000 public, private, charter and home-schooled students in Kindergarten through 12th grade and provides[Read More…]