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The FCC announced a plan to create a Digital Literacy Corps to provide the basic technology literacy skills necessary to allow broadband non-adopters to participate online. The effort appears primarily focused on incentivizing digital literacy classes in libraries and schools across the country. The Commission is still contemplating ways to pay for this initiative.

Some examples of digital learning boosting student achievement from Tom Vandar Ark.

What can we learn from digital natives? 

Great "elements" to keep in mind when thinking about progress in Wisconsin. 

The Playbook is designed to help K-12 school educators plan for the transition to a rich, interactive, and personalized digital learning environment.  

Some cartoons for perspective. 

In developing their plans, states should adopt a sense of urgency around certain policy areas: establishing a competency-based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material,providing a robust offering of high quality courses from multiple providers,ending the archaic practice of seat-time,funding education based on achievement instead of attendance,funding the student instead of the system,eliminating the all-too-common practice by school districts of prohibiting students from enrolling with approved providers, either by withholding funding or credit, andbreaking down the barriers, such as teacher-student ratios and class size limits, to effective, high quality instruction.

Overview from Converge Magazine. Begins the conversation.