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South Carolina Schools Chart Course Toward Digital Equity
In an effort to ensure digital equity for students in rural or lower socio-economic areas, the South Carolina state legislature began funding the Palmetto Digital Literacy Program in 2017. Dillon School District Four, a small district serving a rural area, was among...
Cultivating Digital Literacy Skills in Students
Digital literacy is the ability to understand, use, and interact with technology, media, and digital resources in real-world situations, providing the foundation for college and career readiness. Teaching digital literacy in students requires a range of specific...
Celebrating South Carolina STEM Education Month
March 14 (Pi day) marked the kickoff of STEM Education Month in South Carolina. STEM education is becoming increasingly important in K-12 classrooms. By teaching the fundamentals of science, technology, engineering and math, students become better equipped to...
Women Making History in Tech
Believe it or not, a report by Accenture showed that “the proportion of women working in tech is now smaller, at 32%, than it was in 1984, at 35%." In 1983, while I was an undergraduate student at UCLA, I worked part-time as a computer programmer for a defense...
This Digital Learning Day, Equipping Students to Navigate Our Digital World
Today we celebrate Digital Learning Day (#DLDay), a day sponsored by All4Ed to highlight the digital tools educators use across the country to engage and support students. At Learning.com, we support this effort by ensuring students are provided with the skills,...
What Does Lifelong Digital Literacy Look Like in a Constantly Changing Digital World?
There’s no doubt that the digital technology landscape is constantly changing. What began as the ability to automate calculations and digitize otherwise analog transmission has evolved into artificial intelligence, augmented reality, nanotechnology and more. As...
Preparing Students for a Tech Centered World
For many, technology is a gift. For others…not so much. Either way you view technology, one thing is certain: technology is here to stay and will continue to advance. When I first attended school, we didn’t have computers in the classroom. We were lucky to...
Is Teaching Keyboarding to Students Still Relevant in 2023?
It wasn’t not too long ago that typing was ubiquitous in computer class. Typing curriculum programs were an important focus of technology instructors who knew the burgeoning technological landscape meant students would need to be able to keyboard—and keyboard...
Get Creative with Professional Development for Technology Integration
Technology continues to develop at lightning speed. For educators, there is more and more pressure to integrate it into the classroom; but with limited time, training and experience, many teachers struggle to do it effectively, or even at all. There were no courses...
How to Help Students Improve Pattern Recognition Skills
In computational thinking, one of the integral steps to the problem-solving process is pattern recognition. In this process, pattern recognition is the identification of similarities within a particular data set, sequence, or even in comparison to other problems and...