Digital Curriculum

Games. Video lectures. Interactive software. Learn more about academic material that’s delivered through technology
Rocketship Mateo Sheedy 4th grade teacher Juan Mateos says sharing a classroom with his colleagues is making him a better teacher.
Rocketship Mateo Sheedy 4th grade teacher Juan Mateos says sharing a classroom with his colleagues is making him a better teacher.
Ramin Rahimian for Education Week
Classroom Technology 'Flexible' Classrooms: Blended Learning 2.0?
Rocketship Education's new approach to blended learning seeks to increase teacher collaboration and further individualize instruction, but the model poses new challenges for classroom educators.
Benjamin Herold, January 21, 2014
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3 min read
On the far side of the room, teacher Jason Colon works with a group of Mateo Sheedy's most-advanced 4th graders on a lesson about graphing coordinates. Students in flexible classrooms are re-grouping based on ability every six weeks or so.
On the far side of the room, teacher Jason Colon works with a group of Mateo Sheedy's most-advanced 4th graders on a lesson about graphing coordinates. Students in flexible classrooms are re-grouping based on ability every six weeks or so.
Ramin Rahimian for Education Week
Classroom Technology Growing Pains for Rocketship's Blended-Learning Juggernaut
The highly touted charter network's new "flexible classroom" model failed to reverse steady test-score declines, raising questions about Rocketship's aggressive expansion plans.
Benjamin Herold, January 21, 2014
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11 min read
Federal U.S. Learning Registry Aims to Tailor Online Content for Educators
The U.S. Department of Education says its online information-sharing network now houses 300,000 resources from a wide variety of sources, but questions remain about the initiative’s sustainability.
Sean Cavanagh, January 14, 2014
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7 min read
IT Infrastructure & Management Opinion What if Piaget Had Tweeted?
Some of the biggest breakthroughs in behavioral and education research predate the high-tech era, which makes one wonder about taking a technology break, Malbert Smith III writes.
Malbert Smith III, November 27, 2013
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2 min read
Curriculum Ed-Tech Startup Leads HarperCollins Into 'Nascent' K-12 E-Book Market
Book publisher HarperCollins and ed-tech startup Curriculet have joined forces to bring interactive e-books to K-12 schools under a new pricing model.
Benjamin Herold, November 19, 2013
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4 min read
Kim Rogusky, right, the coordinator of college and career counseling for Commonwealth Connections Academy, the third-largest full-time online school in Pennsylvania, confers with co-worker Mary Cote, an advisory assistant, at the school's counseling offices in Harrisburg. Amid struggles with academic performance and student retention, online schools are striving to more holistically support students they rarely see in person.
Kim Rogusky, right, the coordinator of college and career counseling for Commonwealth Connections Academy, the third-largest full-time online school in Pennsylvania, confers with co-worker Mary Cote, an advisory assistant, at the school's counseling offices in Harrisburg. Amid struggles with academic performance and student retention, online schools are striving to more holistically support students they rarely see in person.
Jessica Kourkounis for Education Week
Classroom Technology Counseling Is a Virtual Experience for Students at Online Schools
Full-time online schools around the country are wrestling with how to better support the academic, social, and emotional needs of students they rarely see in person.
Benjamin Herold, November 12, 2013
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6 min read
Emiliano Abramzon, the co-founder of Nearpod, a startup that offers teachers a digital platform for designing interactive lessons and delivering them to students on tablets, puts a high value on partnerships with publishers.
Emiliano Abramzon, the co-founder of Nearpod, a startup that offers teachers a digital platform for designing interactive lessons and delivering them to students on tablets, puts a high value on partnerships with publishers.
Josh Ritchie for Education Week
Curriculum Tech Platforms, Publishers Join Forces to Sell Content
In the crowded field of ed-tech startups seeking to go to scale, companies with distribution platforms and those that develop instructional materials are merging their resources.
Benjamin Herold, November 5, 2013
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6 min read
Classroom Technology Q&A Q&A: LAUSD's Jaime Aquino on iPads, Pearson, Board Fights, and Stepping Down
Los Angeles Unified's outgoing deputy superintendent for instruction addresses critics and defends the decision to roll out an unfinished digital curriculum as part of the district's iPad initiative.
Benjamin Herold, October 25, 2013
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6 min read
Casey Wardynski, the superintendent of the Huntsville, Ala., city school district, talks with student Jillian Boles during his visit to Goldsmith-Schiffman Elementary School last school year when iPads were introduced to replace textbooks.
Casey Wardynski, the superintendent of the Huntsville, Ala., city school district, talks with student Jillian Boles during his visit to Goldsmith-Schiffman Elementary School last school year when iPads were introduced to replace textbooks.
Dave Dieter/Huntsville Times/AP-File
Curriculum In Ala. District, Publisher Links Tech., Curriculum
The Huntsville, Ala., city school system, like the Los Angeles district, is relying on Pearson to ease its transition to digital curriculum and 1-to-1 technology.
Benjamin Herold, October 25, 2013
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3 min read
Students photograph themselves with an iPad during a class at Broadacres Elementary School in Carson, Calif.
Students photograph themselves with an iPad during a class at Broadacres Elementary School in Carson, Calif.
Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles Times/AP
Standards & Accountability Curriculum Prompts New Concerns in L.A. iPad Plan
New worries have surfaced about the Los Angeles district's ambitious plan to distribute iPads to thousands of students, this time focused on a digital curriculum from Pearson that is being rolled out despite being incomplete.
Benjamin Herold, October 25, 2013
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11 min read
Privacy & Security UPDATED: Children's Advocacy Group Urges Greater Privacy for Data Use
Common Sense Media, an organization that rates educational products for their quality, has written a letter to industry groups asking them to take steps to ensure student privacy, the New York Times reports.
Sean Cavanagh, October 14, 2013
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2 min read
Curriculum Curating Digital Content Is a Complicated Task
Schools across the country are overwhelmed by the breadth and abundance of digital resources, but they are identifying better ways to organize open-source and paid content.
Amanda M. Fairbanks, September 30, 2013
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7 min read
Classroom Technology Consumer Demand for Digital Learning Games, Simulations Growing Worldwide
The global market for learning games and simulations is expanding, but experts say the level of interest does not appear to be as evident in K-12 schools.
Michele Molnar & Sean Cavanagh, September 17, 2013
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5 min read
Lynn-Steven Engelke of the Smithsonian Institution monitors presentations on a projector at the Space Telescope and Science Institute in Baltimore. Cultural institutions are among those helping teachers use technology.
Lynn-Steven Engelke of the Smithsonian Institution monitors presentations on a projector at the Space Telescope and Science Institute in Baltimore. Cultural institutions are among those helping teachers use technology.
Swikar Patel/Education Week
Curriculum Museums, Researchers Shifting to Online Science Ed. Outreach
Cultural institutions are offering open online training sessions, virtual activities, and tech-enhanced projects to bring the subject alive in the nation's schools.
Benjamin Herold, August 27, 2013
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3 min read
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