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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work,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
Making School Cool: The Geeky Approach
What's a good way to encourage ed-tech in schools and reform the way students think about education? Make tech nerdiness cool, says this Wired magazine article.
Privacy & Security
Boy Scouts Turn to Tech to Stay Relevant
The Boy Scouts of America, which is approaching 100 years old, is turning to technology to get hip.
Education
Media Savvy Helps Student Reporter Land Obama Interview
A student reporter from Florida lands an interview at the White House with President Barack Obama after months of coverage for his school news program.
Education
Suit Settled Over Filtering of Gay Web Sites
While we're on the subject of Internet filtering, you might want to check out Mark Walsh's latest post on The School Law Blog about the settlement in Tennessee over access to gay Web sites.
Education
Internet Filtering Topic of Twitter Chat
A lively Twitter chat tackles the issue facing many schools and districts: How to filter Internet content without restricting students' access to appropriate resources.
Curriculum
N.Y.C. Summer Pilot Program Customizes Learning
New York City's School of One summer program provided a math curriculum customized to individual needs of the 80 7th graders who participated.
Education
Roundup of Links for Ed-Tech Enthusiasts
Check out the push for subject-specific education blogs going on at the Dangerously Irrelevant blog and the transcript of yesterday's edweek.org chat about one-to-one computing.
Education
Ruminations on Technoslavery
To be or not to be a 'technoslave.' That is the question some ed-tech bloggers are asking about the need (or not) to keep up with new technologies.
Classroom Technology
State Policy Suggestions for Virtual Schools
A new report outlines the variety of state policies surrounding online learning and gives suggestions on how those policies could be changed to better support an online learning environment.
Education
Student Excuse #765: Kindle Ate My Homework
A Michigan student loses his summer reading assignment after Amazon recalls a classic text he downloaded to his Kindle e-reader. Will his teacher accept the excuse, "My Kindle Ate My Homework"?
Education
Cellphone Jamming Abandoned in Iowa District
One Iowa district abandons plans to jam cellphone signals in schools after learning the practice is illegal.
Education
How Effective is Ed Tech?
Researchers argue in a commentary that investing more money in educational technology and related professional development will not improve student achievement.
Privacy & Security
'Sexting' Getting Attention at Federal Conference
'Sexting' and other technology related issues will be covered at the The U.S. Department of Education's national conference on Safe and Drug-Free Schools in Maryland.
Education
Blackboard Inc.'s Patents Invalidated
A federal appeals court invalidated more than three dozen of the company's patents for online learning-management systems.