Digital Learning Day to focus on personalized learning and effective teaching
1/26/2012
By Cynthia Hobgood
Building upon a growing movement, the Alliance for Excellent Education and its partners are calling on teachers, schools, principals, community leaders, parents and students to participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012. The Day will celebrate innovative teaching practices that make learning more personalized and engaging and encourage exploration of how digital learning can provide more students with more opportunities to get the skills they need to succeed in college, a career and life. America’s Promise Alliance is a core partner in the effort.
Digital Learning Day is not just for schools: learning takes place in many environments, so libraries, community or afterschool programs, and other groups along with parents and students are all invited.
An expert educator working group with more than 25 innovative and master instructional technology leaders from across the country worked to develop these toolkits filled with helpful resources for all stakeholders. The toolkits include links and references organized in a succinct way to meet the needs of the following stakeholders recommended by practitioners just like you. These resources are not the totality of good information available. Instead, they are designed to help think about how technology may strengthen instructional strategies.
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Teachers & Librarians
(and anyone who helps students learn) This toolkit includes, pedagogy, project-based learning, lesson portals, subject area toolkits, collaboration opportunities, outreach ideas and more.
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School Leaders
(Principals, Assistant Principals, and other leaders) This toolkit includes showcases, strategic planning resources, blogs, information about different technologies and more.
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District Leaders
This toolkit includes outreach, showcases, inspiration and more.
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State Leaders
This toolkit includes outreach, sample documents, proclamation, inspiring ideas and more.
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Sign up
and be counted in this effort.
The Alliance for Excellent Education, an America’s Promise Partner, works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century. The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future.