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Augmented and virtual reality in K-12 education? What would it look like?

3 Exciting Ways to Use Augmented and Virtual Reality in the K–12 Classroom Bringing distant places closer to students and boosting retention through enhanced visual cues, AR/VR adds value to teaching and learning.

From a King County student's perspective: http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/student-voices-traditional-school-didnt-work-for-me-so-i-enrolled-in-an-online-school/

Student voices: Traditional school didn’t work for me, so I enrolled in an online school Students need to know about all the options they have for completing high school, says Rahima Ali, a Running Start student who attends Insight School of Washington and Shoreline Community College.

More on blended learning.
http://educationnext.org/blended-learning-can-enable-teachers-to-focus-on-cognitive-skills-2/

Blended Learning Can Enable Teachers to Focus on Cognitive Skills - Education Next An interview with Megan Toyama, a blended-learning teacher of AP US history and 10th-grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma

http://www.educationnews.org/online-schools/online-and-blended-learning-helps-struggling-students-survey-says/

Survey: Online, Blended Learning Helps Struggling Students The fourth annual joint survey from MDR and Fuel Education shows that school districts are responding to student needs with online and blended learning.

Current WA State Online K-12 options: http://www.digitallearning.k12.wa.us/options/programguide.php

Online School Programs - Digital Learning Department @ OSPI An online school program is a full- or part-time sequential program run by a Washington state school district, serving students in grades K-12. Students are taught by Washington certificated, highly qualified teachers, and the content is primarily delivered through the internet. View the full defini…

Recommended policy framework for online charter schools. http://www.crpe.org/publications/policy-framework-online-charter-schools

A new guide to K-12 and College digital learning opportunities.
http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/online-schools-guidebook/

Online Schools Guidebook: Learning Online for K-12 & College Students Explore online schools for K-12 and college students. Hear from experts and learn about Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, and other ways students can get ahead online.

New nationwide digital learning report card is published. http://digitallearningnow.com/report-card/

2014 Report Card - Digital Learning Now Digital Learning Now’s fourth annual Digital Learning Report Card measures state policies on digital learning based on their alignment to the 10 Elements of High-Quality Digital Learning. In addition to the interactive map below, you can read the full text of the 2014 Digital Learning Report Card. S…

Creative, customized education is such an obvious solution to areas where "business as usual" is not working well. http://educationnext.org/get-blended-learning-right/

How To Get Blended Learning Right - Education Next What happens when reformers try to use blended learning in a disruptive way in the hardest-to-serve parts of Detroit?

Good advice about how state's can access the merits of blended learning:http://learningaccelerator.org/media/1df83261/TLA%20SFW-V1_080514_fin.pdf

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