Snow Days Turn Into E-Learning Days for Some Schools
Morones, A. (2014). Snow Days Turn Into E-Learning Days for Some Schools. Education Week , 33 (20), 6. This article explores the ways a few districts utilize technology when a snow day keeps students out of school. Due to an overwhelming amount of snow days in recent years, some school districts have started requiring students to participate in a day of e-learning during a snow day. In Ohio, over 95 school districts have implemented these e-learning days. Teachers post lessons and assignments online and students must complete them in two weeks. The two week timeline is due to some students not having access to a computer or internet at home. Teachers will also try to include hard copies for those students to take home later. The lessons are supposed to be created so that students would not need help from parents and could do the work independently. In Grandville High School in Michigan, teachers will take videos of themselves teaching the lessons and post them online for s