Digital Media


Report: Students Used 74 Different Ed Tech Tools in Fall 2021 Semester, Educators Used 86

LearnPlatform today released a mid-year ed tech usage report showing that K–12 students in U.S. school districts used 74 different digital learning tools during the first half of the current school year, and educators used 86.

Adobe Launches Creative Cloud Express with Drag-And-Drop Multimedia Content Creation, Free Access for K–12 Classrooms

Creative Cloud Express for Education — free for K–12 classrooms — includes access to a number of Adobe’s applications such as Photoshop Express, Premiere Rush, Spark Video, and Spark Page.

Wacom Expands Chromebook Compatible Tablet Lineup

Wacom has added one of its Intuos tabets to its lineup of graphics tablets that are certified compatible with Chrome OS devices.

Exploring Privacy Concerns for Ed Tech Tools

California State University, Northridge professor Kristen Walker is investigating the price that school districts will pay when it comes to protecting their privacy using ed tech tools through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Common Sense graph showing smartphone adoption for tweens and teens

How Teens Consume Digital Media

A new survey from Common Sense finds young people are watching twice as many online videos every day than they did four years ago.

Discovery Ed Adds Collaboration to Streaming Service

Discovery Ed Adds Collaboration to Streaming Service

The new Discovery Education Experience (formerly Streaming Plus) will be available at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.

Adobe Spark Adds Collaboration for Education Users

Adobe has updated Spark, its suite of tools for helping users create visual content.

Soundtrap and Listenwise Partner for Podcast Professional Development

Soundtrap and Listenwise Partner for Podcast Professional Development

Soundtrap and Listenwise are collaborating to make it easier for teachers to help students create podcasts.

NPR Podcast Challenge Winners Tackle Local Stories with Worldwide Impact

NPR Podcast Challenge Winners Tackle Local Stories with Worldwide Impact

This first-ever event was intended to help students learn how to tell stories — whether about their schools or communities, moments in history they considered important, sides of a debate that might not otherwise represent student viewpoints or something else that "kids understand but grown-ups don't."

Podcasting Software Adds Education Functionality

Podcasting Software Adds Education Functionality

Soundtrap, a digital media software company owned by Spotify, will release a new education edition of its Soundtrap for Storytellers podcast creation tool in June.