Educational Technology

July 3, 2017

Why One Napa School Is Opting Out of Online Learning

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

By Sarah Craig, KQED

Nestled among rows of wine grapes, Stone Bridge School is a K-8 independent charter school in Napa County. On a recent afternoon, 28 first-graders sang during their main lesson. They can sing, paint, dance and sew. But what they don’t do — and are discouraged from — is use computers. Bill Bindewald, principal at the Waldorf-inspired Stone Bridge School, says their philosophy around technology isn’t a no-tech approach, but a slow-tech one. He says they place an emphasis on hands-on learning. But the school hasn’t gone cold turkey. By the time students reach sixth, seventh and eighth grade, they start doing reports and the state’s standardized tests online. The school has also developed a cyberethics curriculum to learn things like finding truthful sources online.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/18/why-one-napa-school-is-opting-out-of-online-learning/

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