distance learning
SCOE launches technology support fund | News
The Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) is launching a Technology Support Fund intended to help school districts and families purchase the mobile hotspots, prepaid data plans, computers and subscriptions to online learning plans needed to access and deliver distance learning this year. The Technology Support Fund is seeded through a $50,000 donation from Bank …
Distance Learning Leads to Technology Boost for South Bay School District – NBC Bay Area
Many schools are into the new school year’s first week of instruction. Most everyone prefers the idea of in-class lessons as opposed to distance learning, but one of the poorest districts in the state said the new virtual lessons are a blessing in disguise with every student now connected to the internet at home. Education …
BREAKING: Neighbor Island Schools Announce Distance Learning to Start School Year | Maui Now
Complex area superintendents on the neighbor islands today announced the distance learning models that schools will be implementing on Aug.17. Public schools on Kaua‘i, Hawaiʻi Island, and Maui County – with the exception of Moloka‘i schools and Hāna High & Elementary – will transition to full distance learning for the first four weeks of the …
Addressing the challenge of providing technology, internet access to CCSD students
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An essential part of distance learning is having the right technology. The Clark County School District is scrambling to provide Chromebooks and internet access to all students. “When the schools shut down in March, about half of my students didn’t have access to internet at home or a computer,” said parent …
Online Art Class Gives Break to Home Schooling Parents – NBC 7 San Diego
A new online tool is helping a San Diego mother give her kids a break from their home school routine while still keeping them engaged educationally. The set up might be the same at many homes: students with headsets staring at a computer screen. But for one special hour, the Delgado sisters take pencil to …
Teaching through technology: RBC teachers share challenges and triumphs of distance learning | Rio Blanco Herald Times
RBC | Our schoolteachers have been assigned a Herculean task: learn an entirely new way of connecting with and teaching their students, and do it almost overnight. Both Rio Blanco County school districts have shifted to distance learning for students from kindergarten through high school. Students have been provided with Chromebooks, and teachers connect with …
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Sharjah starts e-learning
The Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport in Sharjah (AASTS) has started implementing e-learning for the second semester in the College of Maritime Transport Technology E-learning experience at AASTS. (Image source: AASTS) Faculty members were trained on giving e-lectures as well as providing the necessary support to students. More than 100 students attended …