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Onboarding training is crucial to success, but only if there’s follow through. Use these tips to ensure a new program is best utilized to maximize the return on investment.

While it is clear that students need digital literacy to be successful in school and future careers, the challenge is finding effective ways to make sure students are receiving the tech skills they need to excel in the digital world. This year at ISTE, we asked educators visiting our booth to write down creative and easy ways they are integrating critical digital literacy skills such as keyboarding, online safety, productivity tools, and coding into core subject instruction.

Here are five key elements that are found in the best coding curriculum on the market today. By introducing students to coding concepts early, you can help them build the skills they need to be successful in school, college, and future careers.

For District Instructional Technology Coordinator, Stormy Cullum, being collaborative was a successful way to strategize teachers, resources, and school spaces to teach digital literacy at her district.

Professional learning is an ongoing process that provides current educators with the knowledge, skills, and classroom strategies to transform teaching and learning.

Cyberbullying is no longer confined to one space, it’s happening at home and in school, with access to the internet at student fingertips. Here are some tips on how to get started with an online safety and cyberbullying prevention plan.

Gone are the days where only technology teachers or librarians were responsible for teaching digital literacy skills. By making curriculum accessible to teachers and students in their Google Classroom courses, teachers of any subject can easily incorporate digital literacy education into their classroom lesson plans, in the computer lab, or in a hybrid of both.

ISTE, CSTA, Common Core State Standards, and many others provide targets to guide digital literacy programs, curricula and instruction, and professional development. Help ensure your students are hitting their technology skill targets by providing them with a standards-aligned digital literacy curriculum.

When Teacher Appreciation Week rolls around every year, I can’t help but reminisce about my own teachers. When I think about the educators that made the most impact on me, I reflect on why they were so important. The reason that always comes to mind is the personal...

Last month, Learning.com took part in the nation-wide Take Your Child to Work Day celebration with a day full fun and excitement around the office.

Whether you’re building your own keyboarding curriculum, using free resources online or looking to purchase a keyboarding solution, a keyboarding solution should meet these requirements that will provide the most for your students and teachers.

As computer-based standardized assessments move into an online arena, the importance of proper keyboarding instruction and teaching sound touch-typing technique has never been more crucial to student success in school, in college, and in future careers.

Last month, some of the Learning.com team joined educators from around the globe at the ASCD Empower18 Conference in Boston, MA.