Technology turned the tables on us. We are prisoners of our children's generation far more than they are prisoners of ours. Even if we sometimes smirk when we see kids struggle with technology, our students really are digital natives in ways that we can never be, even we who have been eager early adopters of anything subject to Moore's Law. Read Full Post >
The FCC announced the appointment of Michael Steffen as Director of Digital Learning, a new digital learning role. Read Full Post >
Petition organizers are going through a White House process to collect 100,000 signatures to encourage the federal government to support increased school broadband access. Read Full Post >
Nearly 18 months after its conception, the nonprofit Connect to Compete organization Thursday launched its promised trio of programs aimed at an estimated 100 million Americans without home broadband Internet access, including tens of millions of students. Read Full Post >
Teachers involved in high-level educational programs such as Advanced Placement say digital tools are essential for instruction, a new survey finds. Read Full Post >
Educators say the Internet and digital tools are helping improve students' research habits, but hurting their attention spans, according to two surveys. Read Full Post >
The main divide is over the future of E-Rate as a funding source for internal infrastructure and maintenance projects. Read Full Post >
The launch of Wikipedia about a decade ago marked the beginning of anywhere, anytime learning (to borrow a phrase from a Microsoft laptop initiative in the 90s and a foundation that continues to advance the mission) where anyone with a broadband connection could learn almost anything. The anywhere, anytime shift - just now being incorporated into our formal institutions - is proving to be more significant and more disruptive than the printing press was 500 years ago. Read Full Post >
The company will stop printing physical copies of the 32-volume encyclopedia, but will continue to offer products online. Read Full Post >
The cable and Internet giant will offer high-speed Internet for $9.95 per month to families with students eligible for free lunch from the federal National School Lunch Program. Read Full Post >
