National Rural Education Association Official Podcast

S01E07 -- State of Learning Technology in the New Normal of COVID-19

Episode Summary

In this episode of the Rural Education Association Podcast, we discuss how school districts are settling into the new normal of COVID-19 and the use of technology. The co-hosts discuss how some technologies have helped learners while others have been taxed with an unusually high user load on their servers. Further, we discussed some of the security challenges that have emerged over the past month and how to address such issues. We then discuss how teachers have shifted some of their learning practices to account for technological issues as well as access issues to the internet or computers. We conclude by discussing some of the primary ways people are adapting and succeeding.