Distance Learning: The startups, the technologies and what corporates are building in the space
Distance Learning: The startups, the technologies and what corporates are building in the space
Going to work is likely to look very different on the other side of COVID-19.
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This week we’ll be exploring the future of learning. As parents, teachers, and students around the world adjust to remote learning, we’re considering how new tools and emerging tech can help. Most of the featured pieces cover the edtech startups, the new technologies, and corporate initiatives in the space, and our first piece from WIRED poses an intriguing question:
The immense desire of my students to get back to normal is understandable. What if we could get back to better than normal?
None of us can predict the short or medium-term future, but it’s important to recognize that from our emergency stopgap distance and remote learning measures, there are a lot of amazing innovations being accelerated. This week, we’re shifting our perspective to consider how this global pandemic could actually increase educational access and efficacy in the longer run.
Also, we’ve incorporated feedback from a number of readers and shifted our format to one more focused on link curation! Next week, we’ll be covering Telehealth. If there are any specific startups or initiatives you’d like us to highlight, just hit reply or email me at erica@nycmedialab.org.
We wish you and your community safety, calm, and solidarity as we support each other through this unprecedented time. Thank you again for reading.
All best,
Erica Matsumoto
When Schools Reopen, Don’t Ditch Online Learning
This WIRED piece convincingly argues that a ‘hybrid or blended learning’ approach that integrates online and classroom components represents an educational future far better than the physical only model. Hybrid models increase educational access (allowing people to better balance work and family) along with promoting new modes of engagement.
5 min read Read More Higher Ed Needs a Long-Term Plan for Virtual Learning
A collaborative HBR piece by the CEO of Coursera alongside three leading digital learning academics. In the same vein as the WIRED piece, they argue that we are at an opportune moment to build “mature digital learning ecosystems”. There are additionally three stages of digital learning adoption categorized: Digital Newcomers, Emerging Adopters, and Advanced Institutions.
8 min read Read More Why I’m Learning More With Distance Learning Than I Do in School
A NY Times op-ed from Veronique Mintz, a New York City eighth-grader, who explains why they are in favor of distance learning.
5 min read Read More COVID-19: 4 questions parents should ask about tech for kids
The World Economic Forum answers a number of common questions around efficiency, privacy, creativity, and inclusivity related to online education.
5 min read Read More NYU Commencement — Grad Alley
As a cross-university consortium based in NYU, we smiled when we saw this effort to provide a stronger sense of community for graduating seniors unable to join together for commencement.
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Read More COVID-19: Rethinking teachers’ ‘digital competence’
Most of the literature focuses on the impact and experience of digital learning on students, but what about the teachers? This was a great piece looking at how teachers are dealing with this sudden transition.
3 min read Read More How Remote Education is Evolving During the Crisis
This piece lists out a number of startups and companies in the edtech space:
PowerSchool Unified Classroom: A way to create a virtual classroom that connects teachers and parents.
Lenovo + Veative Labs partnership: Building a VR classroom
Proctorio: An online test proctoring platform
4 min read Read More Google’s app for helping kids improve reading skills is now available in 180 countries
Google launched a new tool called Read Along that leverages voice recognition to help encourage reading.
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Read More Four Edtech Startups That Are Scoring Top Marks With Homeschoolers
Sir Linkalot, Cypher, Save My Exams, and Outschool are four apps that are helping students adjust to the new homeschooling environment.
3 min read Read More This Week in Business History May 3rd, 1941: The America Broadcasting Network (ABC) is born after the FCC breaks up NBC
An intriguing media history moment from 79 years ago. After a 5–2 vote by the FCC, NBC was ordered to sell one of its two radio networks, which were called Red and Blue.
At the time there was only one other viable competitor, CBS, and the FCC felt the industry had become overly concentrated. NBC chose to sell off the “Blue Network” which went on to become ABC.
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