Creating a Digital Learning Environment
Experts agree that technology can enhance teaching and learning, boosting student engagement and helping teachers instruct in new ways. Digital learning environments are valuable, but teachers need a way to create and manage digital resources in a way that helps them use those digital tools as effectively as possible.
With the generous support of itslearning, we’ve assembled this collection of stories from our archives, along with other relevant resources, to help you marshal the tools needed to create effective digital learning environments in your own schools.
—The Editors
Students want personalized learning, mobile technology
More and more students own mobile devices, including tablets, and indicate a strong desire to use those personal learning tools in school to increase collaboration and access to…
Experts: Collaboration tools hold big promise for education
Social networking and educational gaming ignite spirited debates regarding their practicality in the classroom: Some educators say those technologies can engage students in new ways, while others question…
Companies aim to help schools create digital learning environments
As more schools make the shift to a digital-based teaching and learning environment, a number of new products and services have emerged to help ease this transition.…
New report examines international ed-tech policies
A new report comparing educational technology use of K-12 students in 21 countries found that, despite global economic uncertainty, many countries are still investing in technology to improve…
Digital Learning Day draws nearly 2 million students
Thirty-nine states, 15,000 teachers, and 1.7 million students participated in the first-ever Digital Learning Day on Feb. 1, which aimed to demonstrate how technology is improving teaching and…
Feds’ challenge to schools: Embrace digital textbooks
Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools?…
Teachers: Budgets block classroom technology access
Despite advances in digital learning tools and efforts to close the ed-tech access gap, school budgets remain one of the biggest barriers to classroom technology access, according to…
Some see blended learning as future of education
More and more school districts are embracing digital learning as the next step in improving education, and a number of stakeholder groups are hoping to guide policy makers…
Report: Federal action needed to expand digital learning
As schools increasingly embrace digital learning, a new report says more federal action is needed to encourage the effective use of educational technology.…