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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work,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
Digital Education's Top Stories of 2015
Posts that looked at what research says about blended learning, and about technology's role in helping teachers, were among the most popular Digital Education entries in 2015.
Federal
New National Ed-Tech Plan Calls for Improved Teacher Prep, Assessment
Improving teachers' preparation to use technology, and how assessments are used, are among the issues emphasized in the 2016 National Education Technology Plan.
Classroom Technology
Investors' Advice to Ed-Tech Startups: Focus on Unmet 'Gaps' in Schools
Investors at an industry ed-tech forum urged fledgling companies to focus on solving problem in schools, and avoid vague promises about "disrupting" K-12 systems.
Classroom Technology
Will Ed-Tech Companies Prosper From ESEA Reauthorization?
Changes to federal grant programs and testing policies in the Every Student Succeeds Act could bring opportunities for education businesses.
Classroom Technology
Noodle Markets Aiming to Create Amazon-Like K-12 Procurement Network
A company is attempting to launch a free online marketplace to help ed-tech vendors make their products known in the K-12 market, often a difficult feat.
Classroom Technology
Complaint Accuses Google of Breaking Student-Privacy Pledge
A prominent nonprofit that supports digital privacy filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the tech giant has strayed from a pledge to protect student privacy.
Federal
Richard Culatta Resigning as Ed-Tech Director at U.S. Department of Education
Richard Culatta, an advocate for "open" resources and better technology coordination in districts, is resigning as director of the U.S. Department of Education's office of technology.
Classroom Technology
Facebook CEO, Spouse Pledge Enormous Gift to Education, Health, Communities
"Personalized learning" is a big focus of a pledge by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to give 99 percent of their Facebook shares, worth an estimated $44 billion, to education and other causes.
Federal
Student Data Privacy Mostly Missing in ESEA Reauthorization
The Every Student Succeeds Act would allow federal funds to be used to train teachers on data use and privacy, but does not tackle FERPA modernization.
Ed-Tech Policy
Wiring Rural Schools: Reaction, New News
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $20 million gift to a school broadband-advocacy group, and readers debate the policy details of E-rate modernization.
Ed-Tech Policy
Big Progress, Hurdles on School Internet Connectivity, Analysis Finds
A new analysis of federal E-rate application data by broadband advocacy group EducationSuperHighway found improvements in schools' access to affordable Internet service.
Assessment
Ed-Tech Pilot Tests in Districts Informal, Short on Student Feedback, Study Finds
Both districts and ed-tech developers would benefit from collecting more feedback from teachers and students from pilot tests of products, a study suggests.
Classroom Technology
Media Usage Highest Among Poor, Minority Youth, Report Finds
Common Sense Media released a report describing high levels of media usage by today's youth.
Classroom Technology
FBI Online Game Combating Youth Extremism Draws Ire of Muslim Groups
The bureau's online game, titled "Don't Be a Puppet," is intended to counter recruitment of youths to radical extremist groups via the Internet.