Although the COVID-19 pandemic has bought unimaginable changes to education, there is a lot of development needed to move K-12 education beyond the point of emergency remote teaching to well-designed online instruction, said Natalie Milman, a professor of education technology in the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
“There’s a lot of using technology [in schools] just to get through,” she said. “A lot of schools have gotten a lot of technology, but just because we get technology doesn’t mean that students know how to use it well. This notion of emergency remote teaching and learning, which I do strongly believe we’re still in, means we may not be using technology in the most effective, efficient or meaningful ways.”