Tag: coronavirus
Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Forty minutes. That’s how long it took Laura to walk from her home to her high school two blocks away one sunny April [more…]
Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?
Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But he makes it clear to students that they are welcome [more…]
COVID-19 Hit Schools Unequally, But Data Shows Learning Recovery Is Equally Slow
When schools were forced to go remote during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it shone a spotlight on inequities that had long plagued education. Parsing [more…]
Can After-School Programs Help Children Recover From the Pandemic?
DETROIT — A fleet of vans and a bus picked up dozens of students and dropped them off at the Downtown Boxing Gym here on a chilly [more…]
Who’s Looking Out for the Mental Health of Infants and Toddlers?
The last few years have been a strain on nearly everyone, with routines disrupted, social interactions curtailed, and stress and anxiety running high. There’s been much written [more…]
What’s Driving the Change in Student-to-Counselor Ratios in Schools?
The ratio of students to school counselors in the United States continues to narrow, with data released this month showing it has reached the lowest point since [more…]
Are Relationships the Key to Solving America’s School Absenteeism Crisis?
The number of students who’ve gone missing from the classroom has only climbed since the pandemic. These days, 16 million students may be “chronically absent,” according to [more…]
How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In the past year, [more…]
Why College Students Turned From Being Down on Remote Learning to Mostly in Favor of It
If you go back to the first days of the COVID crisis, when campuses across the country were shutting down, college students weren’t very happy with emergency [more…]
Student Disengagement Has Soared Since the Pandemic. Here’s What Lectures Look Like Now
SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in [more…]
Top 10 Reasons Telehealth is our Future
26 Apr Top 10 Reasons Telehealth is our Future by Stambol The Covid-19 pandemic has changed everything. Starting and hopefully ending with the world of Health Care. [more…]
VR at Home in 2021
12 Apr VR at Home in 2021 by Stambol As the entire world races toward the finish line of the Covid-19 pandemic, setbacks are plentiful and fresh [more…]
Digital Transformation for Retailers: Catching Up to Ecommerce
15 Mar Digital Transformation for Retailers: Catching Up to Ecommerce by Stambol Did you start your business with a clear plan that DIDN’T include an ecommerce component? [more…]
Extended Reality Products in Everyday Life
01 Mar Extended Reality Products in Everyday Life by Stambol When we think of technology changing our future, it’s easy to slip into an overly dramatized vision [more…]
Remote possibilities
The technology sector is beginning to assess the ramifications of the 2020 lockdown for long-distance interaction. For years, members of parliament in the UK fought to preserve [more…]
We both caught the Coronavirus
My wife and I were both ill with the symptoms of COVID-19. While we were ill, we were looking for information about other people’s experience of COVID to understand [more…]
