Computers in School

The Los Angeles Times published a disturbing article about the problems and obstacles that students and teachers are encountering as online learning becomes the new normal. For many children, instruction is inaccessible. The gaps between the haves and have-nots are glaring. “ Misti Kemmer, a fourth-grade teacher at Russell Elementary…

Lily Altavena Arizona RepublicPublished 3:24 PM EDT Mar 23, 2020Teachers are passing out laptops in school parking lots. They're reading to kids through front windows. They're dismissing children to recess through a computer screen. Learning in Arizona looks different for the state's 1.1 million students during the COVID-19 outbreak.While Gov. Doug…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a whirlwind week, teachers came up with digital versions of everything from high-school English discussions to kindergarten gym classes, city officials scrambled to find laptops for students in need, and parents grappled with how they would keep kids' attention on schoolwork. The New York City…

“This isn’t a regular snow day, and we can’t have grandma come over to help,” said Nora Flynn of Reading. Both she and her husband, a civil engineer, are working from home full time while trying to care for their 8-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son.They take shifts working upstairs at…

If you’re a teacher, you’ve likely heard about all the ways technology can support you in the classroom. Whether it’s tablets and smart boards or the internet and social media, technology influences the modern classroom in too many ways to count. But most teachers don’t get a manual that shows…

PHOENIX – Keiko Dilbeck, principal of Kino Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, feels sick to her stomach every time her students leave for a break.She worries about their lives at home and how much they could lose academically. And she knows they worry, too — about whether they'll have enough food, about whether a…

The sixth-grader, who left the school hugging a jumble of milk cartons, packaged sandwiches, and yogurt in his arms, said he came to the school for more than food: He also wanted to maintain a sense of structure. Otherwise, he worried that when school resumes — the current estimate for…

Jordan Coleman, Enterprise SaaS Sales Account Manager at Weedmaps As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Growing up, I wanted to be a number of things, ranging from a certified scuba diving instructor to a physics teacher to a sports journalist. My mom was a data…

Jordan Coleman, Enterprise SaaS Sales Account Manager at Weedmaps As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? Growing up, I wanted to be a number of things, ranging from a certified scuba diving instructor to a physics teacher to a sports journalist. My mom was a data…

Millions of families in Los Angeles and across the state were forced to adjust Monday to closed schools, childcare hassles, an uneven move to online learning and a strained social safety net — the education system fallout from an unprecedented effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus. L.A. Unified…