Featured Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Unlocking the Gate to Better Learning
To “ungate” in software is to allow a user to proceed to the next level or into a new section. In some software, gating is a way for teachers to lever up or hold back individual students so that...
LeiLani Cauthen
Does Child Privacy Even Matter?
I’ve written quite a bit about children’s privacy, including what I thought was a scathing piece on Google and Education . The simple fact is every bit of information you can possibly imagine i...
Charles Sosnik
Understanding the Causes of Teenage Suicide
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a series on the causes and prevention of teenage suicide Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death for 10 to 24-year-olds, according to the Centers ...
Franklin P. Schargel
The Human EdTech for Diversity
LeiLani Cauthen argues for the symbiosis of teacher connection and technological advancement
The LC Staff
Why Today's Math Textbooks Just Don't Add Up
How school districts can empower teachers with dynamic resources that help them teach more effectively and respond to emerging needs
Al Noyes
Four Keys to Inspire Low-Literate Adult Learners to Pass the Equivalency Exam
An industry expert explains how to help learners earn their diplomas and improve their lives
Vinod Lobo
5 Steps to Reduce Suspensions
Student suspensions continue to be a major issue in American schools. Suspensions are associated with a variety of negative student outcomes, such as lower academic performance and higher dropo...
Tom Hierck and Kent D. Peterson
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.
Addressing Crises in School Absenteeism, Staffing and Privacy: Using a human touch tech solution
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
