Digital Learning Day Roundup

All the details aren’t yet in, but it’s clear that yesterday’s first Digital Learning Day was an important, in many ways remarkable, coming together to draw attention to all that’s already changing in classrooms across the country.

“It is time we stop asking students to ‘power down’ when they go to school and instead to ‘power up’ and use their interest in technology as a new way to learn,” said Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, which organized the event.

The day’s agenda—which included town hall meetings, in-class participation by close to two million young people and their teachers across the country, and the sharing of exemplary programs already making a difference to kids thanks to their thoughtful adoption of technology tools they use every day—makes clear the degree to which things are changing, in many cases more rapidly than anyone might expect.

The creators of the day-long event have put together an inspiring compendium of examples from districts and schools.

As usual, the great folks at Edutopia have collected their own great set of resources.

For more, be sure to read today’s blog from John Wilson. John, the Pearson Foundation’s first Senior Fellow, represented the Foundation at yesterday’s proceedings in Washington D.C.

We’re honored to have been part of yesterday’s celebration of teaching and learning, and glad that as a result more people than before are checking out our own New Learning Institute website.