by Christine Byrd | Aug 31, 2021 | Blogs
As students and teachers head back to school, more than one million kids will be using Learning.com’s EasyTech digital literacy curriculum. Now, Tech & Learning has named EasyTech a winner of their 2021 Awards of Excellence Back to School in two categories:...
by Christine Byrd | Aug 26, 2021 | Blogs
Madison County Schools’ 1:M Digital Initiative exposes students to many different types of devices throughout their education: iPads in K-1, Chromebooks in grades 2-8, MacBooks in high school and PCs in computer labs at all levels. But the district, which serves...
by Christine Byrd | Aug 4, 2021 | Blogs
A survey last year found that 94% of educators believe the COVID-19 pandemic increased the need to teach digital skills. Yet only 39% of educators believe digital skills are taught well in schools. Which digital skills are essential for digital literacy? And in an...
by Christine Byrd | Jun 24, 2021 | Blogs
Hardly anything today in K-12 education looks the same as before March 2020. There was normal, then the new normal. But when we go back to school this fall, we’re not returning to either of those normals. We now expect students to proficiently navigate multiple...
by Christine Byrd | May 18, 2021 | Blogs
As the instructional technology director for Corpus Christi Independent School District, Cary Perales needed a digital curriculum to meet several requirements: Technology Application TEKS, E-Rate, and David’s Law, which is aimed at curbing cyberbullying. When Perales...
by Christine Byrd | Mar 18, 2021 | Blogs
It’s hard to believe that this month marks one full year since schools across the U.S. shifted to remote learning, forcing digital literacy to the forefront of education. Last spring, Cincinnati Public Schools moved swiftly to deploy laptops or tablets to all 36,000...
by Keith Oelrich | Dec 29, 2020 | Blogs
As we pause for the holidays, and look forward to turning the calendar to 2021, it is a good time to reflect on the past twelve months. Collective Resilience 2020 was a very challenging year. Tens of millions of school and district staff and administrators,...
by Keith Oelrich | Sep 24, 2020 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Interactive lessons guide students through digital concepts in gamified, engaging activities PORTLAND, Ore. (Sept. 24, 2020) – To prepare students for success in a remote learning environment, Learning.com is adding remote learning lessons to its...
by Lcom Team | Jun 1, 2020 | Blogs
I was first introduced to the concept of a technological revolution eight years ago, through a twelve-month professional development course I took about transforming education. It truly upended the way I viewed my role as an educator. Over those twelve months, I took...
by Lcom Team | May 14, 2020 | Blogs
We’ve always believed that mastering digital skills, such as online safety, computational thinking, and coding, is essential for student success. And, with students and teachers making the move to distance learning in response to COVID-19, these skills are all the...
