Ayla Kickhofel is a student in Maryland. She is a contributor to EdTech: Focus on K–12, sharing her experience with educational technology. Editor’s Note: In this Virtual Learning Diary, high school ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

When governments issued lockdown orders earlier this year, organizations everywhere scrambled to move their learning programs online. Since then, a team at the NeuroLeadership Institute has conducted ...

It became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and listening as a teacher taught through a screen instead of at the ...

It’s easy to imagine that many of today’s 2nd graders—future accountants, computer programmers, lawyers—will rarely see the inside of a traditional office. The pandemic is likely to accelerate a trend ...

Until recently, Aiden, a Minnesota 7th grader, had a rocky K-12 career. He got into fights. He was suspended multiple times. He sat alone in the cafeteria. Though he is gifted, his string of Bs and Cs ...

Similar to attending a physical campus and learning in person, there are advantages and disadvantages of attending a virtual classroom and learning online. Among the many benefits of online learning, ...

What is a virtual classroom? Classrooms are essentially a system of communication, which help facilitate a dialogue between teachers and students. Traditional classrooms and virtual classrooms achieve ...

Virtual learning has been difficult for many children who need a multi-sensory learning environment in the presence of teachers and others. For many kids, there is a low level of accountability when ...

Each school district in the Baltimore region bakes some inclement-weather days into its academic year. But after early-week school closures due to heavy snowfall, some school calendars may change as ...