remote learning

Charges have been filed in the case of a high school party in Sudbury, Massachusetts, that led to the local school district moving to remote learning for the start of the year, police said Monday.

The teachers of Broward County Public Schools have been training. In fact, it’s been going on for weeks, with the single objective of making the e-learning experience better on both sides of the computer screen, for teachers and especially for students.

The first day of school Wednesday for Broward County Public Schools was an all-virtual, all-online experience.

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate in-person classes will shift to remote learning after four student housing units reported coronavirus outbreaks. Noah Monroe is a current freshman at UNC who said his friends are scared of getting sick.

No one was satisfied with the distance learning experience that teachers and students were forced into when schools abruptly closed at the beginning of the pandemic last March. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports on the new training teachers gone through for the fall semester.

With just days away from the start of the school year, psychologists are helping families navigate remote learning. NBC 6 anchor Sheli Muñiz spoke to family psychologist Dr. Julia Harper. SHELI: Students are beginning the school year at home. What kind of strain can this continue to put on families? DR. HARPER: Well, as someone who is dealing with it…

Public schools in South Florida have been locked up for nine weeks, so everyone, including the superintendents of the Miami-Dade and Broward County school districts, wants to know if kids will be physically back in classrooms when the new school year begins in August.

Across the nation, high school students are taking Advanced Placement, or AP exams, this week. This is an annual event administered by the College Board.  But everything is different this year.  In another example of how the pandemic is changing American life, this year the AP exams are being given online, to students at home.  “You can use any...

Advanced Placement exams are being given online to students at home. This raises so many questions. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Ryann Goldberg, a kindergarten teacher and mother herself, talks to NBC 6’s Sheli Muñiz about balancing home and work life.

Like all of their high school student peers, Michael Cline and Anand Mathi are learning from home these days. Unlike most of them, these guys are also teaching from home.

NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports on a couple of students helping other students by offering free tutoring online.

NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports on ESL students learning remotely through lessons on the computer.

Ari Odzer reports on students applying for college, financial reimbursements, and virtual classrooms being implemented due to COVID-19

Distance learning is an adjustment for everyone, a new paradigm for students and teachers. “With this whole social distancing thing, humans are social, so the kids, especially teenagers, they really want to talk and be with each other,” said Joe Gonzalez, who teaches biology at BioTECH Senior High School in Richmond Heights. With school shut down, Gonzalez is reaching his…

With schools closed, the Miami-Dade district passed out thousands of laptops to students who need them. So hows the learning process going? NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.