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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work,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.
School & District Management
Improving Mobile Learning, Cybersecurity Among Top Priorities for School IT Leaders
Improving mobile learning and broadband capacity and preventing cyber intrusions are three top priorities for district tech leaders, a survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows.
Personalized Learning
Future Ready Schools to Lead Digital Personalized Learning Institutes
Future Ready Schools will lead a series of eight regional professional development events to help schools grow digital personalized learning initiatives.
School & District Management
Appalachia Has STEM Jobs Available. Will Students Have the Skills to Fill Them?
In Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, employers in the energy-extraction industry seek workers with "middle-level skills" in STEM fields.
Classroom Technology
Research Review: Which Blended-Learning Software Actually Works?
The Regional Education Laboratory Central reviewed studies of 14 online and blended-learning programs used to differentiate instruction.
Curriculum
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Hiring Personalized-Learning Engineers
The new team will take over development of Summit Public Schools' personalized-learning software, ending the charter network's partnership with Facebook.
Classroom Technology
For Young People, News Is Mobile, Social, and Hard to Trust, Studies Find
"Fake news" is one of many reasons why tweens, teens, and young adults mistrust news organizations, according to studies from Common Sense Media and Data & Society.
States
Q&A
Ohio's E-School Attendance Dispute: Q&A With the Columbus Dispatch
Bill Bush and Jim Siegel of the Columbus Dispatch talk about covering the accountability concerns swirling around full-time online charters in Ohio.
School & District Management
Rhode Island Announces Statewide K-12 Personalized Learning Push
The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and other funders are supporting Rhode Island's efforts to define and research personalized learning in traditional public schools.
Families & the Community
In W.Va., Teachers Turn Trump's 'Fake News' Attacks Into Teachable Moments
At West Virginia's Ripley High, teachers are developing media literacy skills in students who are trying to critically examine allegations about "fake news" and media bias.
Classroom Technology
Link Between Social Media and Narcissism? Not Always for Younger Generation
Students' use of social media does not necessarily indicate a tendency toward narcissism, as it does in some adults, researchers say.
Classroom Technology
Online Charter Students in Ohio Perform Far Worse Than Peers, Study Finds
A new NYU/RAND study found that Ohio e-schools tend to attract low-performing white students, who often fall quickly behind students in regular schools.
Privacy & Security
Phishing Scam Targets School Employees' Information
The IRS is warning school districts to watch out for official-looking emails that ask for copies of employees' W-2 forms.
Equity & Diversity
Under New Leadership, FCC Quashes Report on E-rate Program's Success
The FCC rescinded a report showing its own program has helped spur falling bandwidth prices and new access to high-speed broadband for schools and libraries.
Privacy & Security
New Autopsy of inBloom Re-ignites Old Debates About Sharing Student Data
Three years after inBloom's demise, the ed-tech sector is still struggling to make sense of what went wrong - and how to address persistent data-sharing challenges.