Guest Commentary: How Digital Learning Can (and must) Help Excellent Teachers Reach More Children

The beginning of an essay written Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel, co-directors of Public Impact, a Chapel Hill, N.C. -based national education policy and management consulting firm, starts with a thank you to Liberating Learning blog contributor Michael B. Horn.

"We want to second his point (in his essay 'Why Digital Learning Will Liberate Teachers') and add another: schools--and nations--that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers," they wrote.
"And not just in the obvious ways. Yes, directly through digital instruction. But also by freeing excellent teachers to reach more students in-person," they added.
The Hassels continue by describing how digital learning can help to close the achievement gap. Click here to read their entire essay.