Info From Digital Learning Day
Dear Digital Learning Day Participant:
The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), founder and producer of Digital Learning Day, is pleased to share the first in its series of digital learning papers entitled,Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning.
Preparing all students to succeed in today’s increasingly global economy and complex world requires a shift from a teacher-centric culture to learner-centered instruction. This report examines the characteristics of learner-centered instruction and the support that educators and schools will require to make such an approach work. It argues that a learner-centered approach will not succeed without a cultural shift throughout the education system that includes maximizing the potential of digital learning to meet students’ needs.
We hope you enjoy reading the document. Please share it with your colleagues and school leaders in your community who may benefit from reading it.
Voting Is Open for the “App Hackathon”
Many of you provided multiple ideas for new technology/applications, if developed, that could help keep high school students in school and thriving in their learning environments. The App Hackathon organizers have gone through the ideas and narrowed them down to the top six. Please take a minute to pick your top choice and rank the rest. Developers will tally the top choices for the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon–Education event that begins this Friday, June 8.
Thanks as always for your support and participation,
Sara Hall
Director of Digital Learning Day and the Alliance’s Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy
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