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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work,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.
Classroom Technology
Teachers, Teens and Social Media: Q&A with Danah Boyd
Among the hot topics at this year's EduCon 2.8 conference, kicking off Friday in Philadelphia, is a new book from researcher danah boyd on the "networked lives" of today's teens.
Education
Snow Days and E-Learning: A Roundup of News Coverage
From Alabama to Kentucky to Pennsylvania, states and school districts have experimented with technology and online learning to minimize the disruption caused by snow days.
Equity & Diversity
Price Transparency Tool Aims to Help Schools Get More Affordable Bandwidth
A new online portal from school-broadband-advovacy group EducationSuperHighway contains Internet service and pricing information for 13,000 public districts across the country.
Personalized Learning
ACT Creates Low-Cost Online Test-Prep Resource
The makers of the standardized college entrance exam have partnered with ed-tech company BenchPrep to create an online preparation resource.
Teaching
MinecraftEdu Acquired by Microsoft
The American technology giant has plans to expand the classroom version of the wildly popular video game that invites users to build, create, and explore.
Personalized Learning
Florida Virtual Schools and Knewton to Collaborate Using Analytics
One of the country's best-known providers of online education hopes that advanced data analytics will raise the quality of its offerings.
Privacy & Security
Google Questioned on Student Data Privacy By U.S. Senator Franken
The Democratic Senator from Minnesota called on Google to be more transparent about the data it collects on students and how that information is being used.
States
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad Makes Push for Computer Science
Proposed legislation would require all Iowa middle and high schools to offer the subject by the 2018-2019 academic year.
Privacy & Security
Analytics: 4 Lessons Schools Can Learn From the NBA (and Vice Versa)
When it comes to collecting and using big data, education and professional sports have a surprising amount to learn from each other.
Federal
Computer Science Gets a Nod in Obama's Final State of the Union
In his last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that "helping students learn to write computer code" is among his goals for the year ahead.
Privacy & Security
Analytics at AltSchool: Behind the Scenes
An inside look at how Bay Area ed-tech startup AltSchool is using big data and analytics to develop new software tools for schools.
Curriculum
Personalized Learning Based on Students' Emotions: Emerging Research to Know
Research into "affect-aware" computerized tutoring systems that detect student emotions could help change the direction of personalized learning.
Privacy & Security
Ambitious Student-Data-Privacy Law in California Attracts National Attention
Educators and policymakers around the country are carefully watching the implementation of the state's Student Online Personal Information Protection Act to assess its effectiveness.
Curriculum
Tech Supports for Early Literacy Highlighted on Website
The Integrating Technology in Early Literacy website highlights more than 30 programs around the country that are using devices such as tablets and web video to enhance literacy instruction.