In 2014, California signed into law the most comprehensive student-data-privacy legislation in the country. The success of this landmark legislation in California has sparked a national conversation on the importance of protecting our students’ data, and has been the inspiration for similar legislation across the country.
- By Girard Kelly
- 04/26/18
A community of trust encourages a healthy conversation between school systems and community members that moves from fear-based to fact-based about the school practices and educational progress of students.
- By Linnette Attai
- 04/26/18
Online — for all things, online — certainly looks like the right side of history. But, as we argue in this week’s blog, face-to-face universities offer undergraduates two unique opportunities that online universities simply can’t!
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 04/23/18
A special education teachers shares her best practices for connecting with challenging students and helping them develop the social skills they need.
How to set up and orchestrate a successful online and blended learning program for K–12
While "mobile learning" may be overshadowed these days by other tech trends, make no mistake: in the hands of today’s youth, mobile learning is huge! Data to back that claim up — and more like it — are in this week’s blog post, where we interview Dr. Julie Evans, CEO — and Diva Extraordinaire — of Project Tomorrow. Using their "phones" teens are absolutely exploring "socially-based, un-tethered and digitally rich learning."
- By Cathie Norris, Elliot Soloway
- 04/10/18
NGSS – The Next Generation Science Standards – is the hot new way to teach science in K-12. NGSS is a revolution in science education. In our blog, we briefly try to do that revolution justice by explaining its five key terms.
- By Cathie Norris, Joe Krajcik, Elliot Soloway
- 03/14/18
What happens after an educator confiscates a device? In general, teachers and administrators can seize a disruptive device (though for many this is not the first choice), and district policies can provide explicitly for that. But whether educators can search a device is far less clear, dependent on the situation and in some cases the state.
- By Ariel Fox Johnson
- 03/12/18
A kindergarten teacher pairs his research-based curriculum with 3D animals to teach and delight his kindergartners.
- By Greg Smedley-Warren
- 01/25/18
Learn what teachers need to know about this important law.
- By Jeff Knutson
- 03/05/18