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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: classroom technology, personalized learning, future of work,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.
Privacy & Security
Apple Dumps Vaping-Related Apps Amid Public Health Crisis
Apple removed 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store in an effort to limit teens' exposure to content that could lead to harm or illness.
Personalized Learning
Q&A
What Happens When Your School Asks You to Reverse Course on Personalized Learning?
One teacher embraced the technique, with encouragement from a former district administrator. But he was told he had to reverse course, in part because of parent complaints.
Curriculum
Educators Will Soon Be Able to Sell Their Materials on Amazon
The platform, Amazon Ignite, will allow teachers to sell lesson plans and curriculum materials by topic, in subjects like math, language arts, social studies, technology, and science.
Privacy & Security
Instagram's Removal of 'Like' Counts Meant to Combat Anxiety, Depression
Instagram will begin hiding "like" counts on photos for some U.S. users, pleasing some child advocates while raising red flags for Instagram-friendly teachers.
School & District Management
International Study Finds Major Inequities in Computer Literacy
Having access to a computer or tablet doesn't necessarily make students computer literate, according to a study of computer-literacy skills across countries.
School & District Management
Where Do Teens Learn About Vaping? Social Media, Report Finds
Social media keeps vaping top-of-mind for teens, according to the survey. Nearly 60 percent say they're likely to see a post that mentions or shows vaping.
Education
Arkansas Provides K-12 Districts With Volunteer IT Team to Fight Cyber Attacks
The Arkansas Department of Education will now provide on-site help for schools and districts in the state that are experiencing cybersecurity incidents.
School & District Management
Teens' Online Video Viewing Soared Over the Past Four Years, Report Finds
The percentage of kids who report watching videos online "every day" has more than doubled in the past four years, going from 24 percent in 2014 to 56 percent in 2019, among 8 to 12 year-olds.
School & District Management
Digital Access: An Education Technology Success Story?
Back in 2013, before an overhaul of the e-rate program, just 30 percent of school districts were able to take advantage of digital learning. Now, that figure stands at a whopping 99 percent, according to a new report from EducationSuperHighway.
School & District Management
White Workers More Likely to Get Good Jobs at Every Level of Education
You're more likely to get a "good" job if you're white, compared to someone with exactly the same education level who is black or Latino, a new report from Georgetown University finds.
School & District Management
How to Help Educational Technologies Talk to Each Other
The Consortium for School Networking has launched a toolkit to help school districts improve their ability for systems and applications to easily share content.
School & District Management
Five Hundred Schools Have Been Hit by Ransomware in 2019, Report Finds
That's a big uptick from 2018, according to statistics from the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. K-12 schools experienced 119 cyber incidents in 2018 and only about 10 percent involved ransomware.
School & District Management
The U.S. Isn't the Only Country Where Kids Are Addicted to Cell Phones, Report Finds
In Mexico, two-thirds of parents and teens say they use their mobile device "almost all the time." And about half of teens and parents say they check their device at least once an hour.
School & District Management
How to Spot a Teenage Cyber-Hacker
A new study concludes that many hacker kids tend to have the same qualities as other children who engage in more traditional troubled behavior out in the real, offline world.