When Patti Bartley, a first grade teacher at Cook Elementary in Columbus, Miss., heard she was getting a digital learning coach from the Mississippi Department of Education, she was nervous.
“I don’t really use technology unless I’m forced to,” she said in a video highlighting the department’s Digital Learning Coach program. She went on to explain that although she regularly uses her Promethean whiteboard, she hadn’t figured out how to implement lessons using student devices.
Bartley’s hesitancy isn’t unique. As millions of principals and school officials rushed to establish remote learning…