{"id":2277,"date":"2017-08-23T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:57:08","slug":"online-k-12-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/online-k-12-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Online K-12 Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AdobeStock_113099546_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2279 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AdobeStock_113099546_Credit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_113099546_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AdobeStock_113099546_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AdobeStock_113099546_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Learning and the Brain Conference (Boston, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/Event-360\/Merging-Minds-and-Technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">November<\/a>) will focus on &#8220;Merging Minds and Technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given that I blog so much about the importance of skepticism, it seems only appropriate to offer up at least some voices that are highly doubtful about the benefits of technology&#8211;in particular, virtual classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie deBoer has strong opinions, and he supports them with <a href=\"https:\/\/fredrikdeboer.com\/2017\/06\/12\/study-of-the-week-of-course-virtual-k-12-schools-dont-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a>. You&#8217;ll want to check out the graph he includes: one of the axes shows the equivalent of &#8220;days of learning lost.&#8221; That number&#8211;especially when it comes to math learning&#8211;will astonish you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Learning and the Brain Conference (Boston, November) will focus on &#8220;Merging Minds and Technology.&#8221; Given that I blog so much about the importance of skepticism, it seems only appropriate to offer up at least some voices that are highly doubtful about the benefits of technology&#8211;in particular, virtual classrooms. Freddie deBoer has strong opinions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,29],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-skepticism","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}