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Special Guest: Senator Howard Stephenson, Utah

LeiLani Cauthen and Senator Howard Stephenson of Utah discuss concerns about the sudden shift of all schools to remote learning, and what it really means for the future.

Cauthen: Today we’re going to talk about what really happened with the quarantine and schools shutting down for so long now in America and what it really means. And so, I’ve invited Senator Howard Stevenson from the great state of Utah. He has excellent knowledge about what is going on in the software side of adaptive digital curriculum. It has a lot to say about what’s happened in Utah. So tell us what’s going on in Utah, Howard?

Senator Stephenson: If I go postal, I think I would convince the jury that I was right. This digital teaching and learning river is a mile wide and an inch deep in most places. And yet, people, parents, consumers and teachers and school systems as consumers think that it’s all the same. When, what I have found is that the thing you need to focus on is those tools that provide immediate interactive, adaptive feedback while the student is doing the work. It’s not about PDFs online. It’s not about worksheets. It’s not about even project-based learning for that matter. Because project-based learning does not give you the full competency in math concepts or in English language arts concepts. It’s important, but it’s not enough.

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About the host

LeiLani Cauthen is the most connected thought leader in K12 education. She is the CEO and Publisher of the Learning Counsel, a research and news media hub for K12 education with 215,000 primarily executive education readers. She produces leadership training events in twenty-five or more U.S. cities annually and keynotes other conferences. Her on-the-ground approach for the last seven years connected her with districts of all sizes as well as charter schools, private schools, and government leaders. Learning Counsel also produces hot topic webinars with school administrators from across America, a series of Special Reports, ongoing news, and the largest ed-tech research study annually. LeiLani is also the Founder of Knowstory, a social media site just for education, the GrandMaster of the Edujedi Leadership Society, and author of The Consumerization of Learning.