Digital Education
The Digital Education blog covered personalized learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive testing, digital curricula, data privacy, future of work, and all things technology. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work, and digital learning.
Education
Technology Helps Link Scientists to the Classroom
Scientists share their research and details of their work with students through blogs and other Web 2.0 tools.
Education
Education in the Age of Globalization
If you haven't seen the "Did You Know; Shift Happens" video created by Karl Fisch, the director of technology for Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., and modified by Scott McLeod of Iowa State University, it's worth checking out.
Education
Ed-Tech Gathering Ends on a 'Disruptive' Note
Disrupting Class co-author Michael Horn gave new ideas for disruptive innovations for K-12 schools in a keynote address at the Smart Ed-Tech Strategies for Tough Times event.
Education
School of the Future Helping Students Think Ahead
The School of the Future is helping high school students think ahead about higher education and preparing them to get at least one acceptance letter for college admission.
Education
Talking Up Smart Ed Tech Strategies
An interesting panel discussion about getting the most out of your IT budget took place at Education Week's live event in Jersey City.
Education
Strategies for Education Technology: Event in Jersey City
Check out these resources and events from Education Week, Digital Directions, and Teacher.
Education
The Students' Perspective
A highlight of yesterday's ed-tech conference, Smart Ed-Tech Strategies for Tough Times, was listening to 4 students who came in from York Community High School in Elmhurst, Ill., to talk about how schools can use technology more effectively.
Education
Make Parents Pay for School Tech?
Interesting discussion happpening here in Chicago today about getting the most out of your IT budget at EdWeek's Smart Ed Tech Strategies for Tough Times conference. One very interesting question was raised during the discussion about how schools might shift the cost of student tech tools like low cost laptops from schools to parents. What do you think?
Education
Next Stop for Ed-Tech Talk: Jersey City
Susan Patrick, the president and the chief executive officer of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, gave a fascinating talk at the Education Week event in Chicago on Thursday that drew connections between the four assurances emphasized in the federal stimulus package and the power of online learning.
Science
Digital Competition Links Technology, Basketball, and Learning
NBA star Antawn Jamison greets students at a D.C. public school to kick off a new grant program for multimedia projects related to science, math, and sports.
Privacy & Security
China's Internet Filtering Troubles
The filtering software that schools in China are required to use is causing computer malfunctions and raising security concerns.
Assessment
Technology Group Concerned About NAEP Framework
The organization representing state technology directors has criticized the draft of the national assessment of technological literacy, which is scheduled to be administered for the first time in 2012.
Curriculum
Multimedia Curriculum Teaches About 9/11
Multimedia lessons for teaching about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are unveiled.
Education
Join Us In Chicago or Jersey City!
Smart Ed-Tech Strategies for Tough Times, two live events sponsored by Education Week's Digital Directions in Chicago and Jersey City, NJ, will feature some of the leading thinkers on innovation in education.