Today's students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Zip codes and borders no longer determine the learning opportunities, skills and careers that students can access. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process of exploration, creativity and discovery no matter where they or their teachers are in the thoughtful integration of ed tech.

From $10 a haircut, kids can get back two bucks if they read to their barbers. But, wait! There's more. Kids also get quizzed on what they read. "It's not just about reading, but also about comprehension," said Ryan Griffin, the barber who created the program at The Fuller Cut barbershop in Ypsilanti.

The U.S. Department of Education established the Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) as a "one-stop" resource for education stakeholders to learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices related to student-level longitudinal data systems and other uses of student data.

Vancouver Public Schools - weLearn 1:1 Technology one-to-one device rollout.

The four of us, a team, stood together at the bus stop, waving to a beaming four-year old boy as he ran to catch his school bus. We all clapped and cheered as he continued to wave from the window. As we watched the bus drive down the road, every one of us wiped away tears.

The FCC established the Lifeline program in 1985 to ensure that qualifying low-income consumers could afford phone service and the opportunities and security it provides. Congress supported and strengthened Lifeline in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, requiring that affordable service and advanced communications be available to low-income consumers across the country.

We believe that educational opportunities should be available to all learners. Creating an open education ecosystem involves making learning materials, data, and educational opportunities available without restrictions imposed by copyright laws, access barriers, or exclusive proprietary systems that lack interoperability and limit the free exchange of information.

Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools - A series of blog posts from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology.

The K-12 sector is investing heavily in technology as a means of providing students with a more customized educational experience. So far, though, the research evidence behind "personalized learning" remains thin. The U.S. Department of Education has given half a billion dollars to districts that embrace the trend, with limited findings to date.

The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity ...

IT Trends An Interview with the Center for Democracy & Technology's Michelle De Mooy To help school administrators, families, technology companies and state legislators sort through the patchwork quilt of state legislation on student privacy, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), an advocacy group, has developed a state-by-state survey of student privacy laws in partnership with the law firm BakerHostetler.

I just came across this wonderful graphic and thought you might like to have a look as well. This is a work done by our colleague Susan Xnevad. The graphic is designed in such a way to help teachers learn more about how to use SAMR model to integrate technology in education.

Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites! A teacher brought this series to my attention today and the books are wonderful. Her 4th grade class is really enjoying them. I am going to order them for the library.

The web provides limitless opportunities for learning, creating, sharing, and exploring the depths of human knowledge. But it is also an unsafe arena where one needs to be equipped with the needed tools and know-how to better stay safe and browse the net securely.

Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 1. Digital Access: full electronic participation in society. Technology users need to be aware that not everyone has the same opportunities when it comes to technology.