Featured Articles
Another Giant Tech Company Pays Record Fines: What Does it All Mean?
It hardly even registers anymore. Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 Million for violating child privacy rights. There was a time when that might have meant something. But news of tech comp...
Charles Sosnik
Putting KnowledgeWorks’ Strategy Guide to Work for Your Organization
Editor’s note: This is part one in a three-part series. Between the breakneck speed of technology’s advance and tectonic shifts in the job market, educators and learners can feel overwh...
Katherine Prince
Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills
As someone dedicated to the well-being of children, you know the constant struggle between screens and real life as well as I do. Like you, I have guidelines for my classes and my home about sc...
Tamara Fyke
The Future of School Websites Is Consolidation and Consumerization
As technology improves, educational sites are evolving from digital brochures to marketing tools and communication hubs that feel familiar enough to make the entire community feel welcome.
Ali Arsan
Why a 21st Century Teacher Isn’t Just a “Guide on the Side”
The great fiction that a teacher today has become a “guide on the side” is now hardwired into nearly every conversation about the future of teaching and learning. Teachers don’t deliver informat...
Thom Markham
Schools Say Highest Pressure Stems from Their Students’ Social and Emotional Needs
Exclusive findings from the latest Learning Counsel Survey
LeiLani Cauthen
Value Spring Technology Vies for a Seat Alongside Apple, Google at the Artificial Intelligence Table
“If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a ‘bust’ when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.” — Futurist, Ray Kurzweil...
Charles Sosnik
Teleology: the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise
What’s this for ? I started sailing with my father when I was five. After realizing we weren’t going to die, I felt like we were flying and I wanted to know why: What’s this for? Pop wa...
Mac Bogert
Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching
A 2019 Common Sense survey found that only four out of every 10 teachers consider the professional development that they received on the use of technology in the classroom to be effective. Th...
Lynn Erickson and Paul Gigliotti
Using Tech to Practice SEL Skills
As an educator and parent, I feel I have been waging the war against screens for more than a decade. In the classroom, even with adults, it’s a challenge to get learners to focus on what is hap...
Tamara Fyke
Why Do Young People Choose Suicide and What Can Be Done to Prevent It?
Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a series. In case you missed it, you can read part one here . While there is no single cause of youth suicide, research indicates that depression is...
Franklin P. Schargel
Technology May Have to Kill Public Education to Save It
We tend to speak in extremes these days. When online shopping replaces storefront shopping, we call it a Retail Apocalypse. In reality, consumers are simply making choices about how they want to...
Charles Sosnik
The Digital Disruption in Education: Enough is Not Enough
How we will take education, and learning, to the next level.
LeiLani Cauthen
How can SEL & EdTech Work Together
In our world today, we understand the needs of the whole child include social-emotional learning, and we also know that technology is a ubiquitous, essential, and powerful part of education. So,...
Tamara Fyke
Closing the Achievement Gap by Closing the Cognitive Gap
The most recent release of the Nation’s Report Card had everyone from the U.S. Secretary of Education to classroom teachers wringing their hands over the fact that student performance is essenti...
Betsy Hill
School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying
The beginning of the school year brings lots of new things – new clothes, new friends, new schools to attend and new incidents of bullying. The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a...
Franklin P. Schargel
Tech Solving the Intolerable Motionlessness of Reading
Written words are motionless and unremarkable when approached by human eyes. They lie on paper in black and white, unmoving. It’s terribly boring for children, honestly, and that’s why we have p...
LeiLani Cauthen
Human Fission and the Worst Thing a Teacher Can Do
What can we learn from physics and how energy works to inform teaching and learning? Apparently, a lot. For example, did you know that the production of energy requires a base between the...
LeiLani Cauthen
What’s Wrong with Kids Today?
Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in a monthly series Many educators share great concern about their students’ lack of ability to learn the way others did in the past. Oftentimes, these conc...
Ryan L Schaaf
How Education Can Thrive in the Age of Innovation
Editor’s note: This is Part two of a two-part series from renowned innovation expert John Kao. If you missed part one, you can read it here . Worldwide, it is becoming abundantly cl...
John Kao
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Hybrid Logistics Security
