Featured Articles
School Leaders: Solve Your Big Problems by Listening to These Three People
Editor’s Note: This article first published in 2017. But like the old adage states, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Just so happens, this article is particularly relevant n...
Joe Deaton
Gamification and Game-Based Learning in EdTech: How to Start Designing a Great Product
There are many ways to start designing a game. You may have your mind set on a cool mechanic , like pinning teams against each other in a fun multiplayer environment. Or you wish to share a c...
Krista-Lotta Ojanen and Saila Juuti
Understanding the skills gap: How to create strategic employee development
There is a growing skills gap within the workplace that, left unaddressed, is at risk of preventing resilient economic growth and limiting companys’ development. Skills gaps can become roadbloc...
Dr. Alan Cabello
Digital Learning Creates Opportunity and Promise for 2022
2021 was filled with challenges and obstacles for education, yet it forced us to take a fresh look at a slow-moving system, forever shifting the way we teach, learn and communicate. Looking ahea...
Jennifer Lee
The Best Holiday Gifts
“Are we watching Polar Express today, Miss?” my students yelled as they ran into my classroom. It was the last day of school before Winter Break, and everything was getting louder as the day pro...
Janis Effner
The Complete Guide to Building a Technological Curriculum
In line with the skyrocketing usage of new technologies in our everyday lives and workplace, the demand for technological skills , both in programming and technology applications, is expected t...
Hugo Aguirre
The Journey BEYOND Interoperability
It's almost 2022, and in your tech stack discussions, interoperability is table stakes and should serve as the very basic starting point for a much larger goal. The goal of EdTech is simple, b...
Chris Rose
EduJedi Leadership Society Celebrates Attainment Level Awards at the Learning Counsel’s 2021 National Gathering
(Sacramento, CA - December 7, 2021) With the pandemic as the backdrop the last two years, two major national surveys showed teachers, school and district leaders have taken major steps in di...
The LC Staff
3 Best Tablets for Kids with Special Needs
Assistive technology has been helping individuals with special needs work around everyday challenges for years now. Many devices have been created to help these individuals lead independent and ...
Luna Gomez
Predictions for EdTech Trends in 2022
What are the next key trends in EdTech? Learning institutions from K-12 schools to colleges and universities will need to implement specialized and specific EdTech solutions to meet the expe...
Allen Drennan
Student Assessment and Evaluation: Measuring Growth Versus Measuring Achievement
Expected growth and assessment are part of all successful teaching plans. The general expectation is that for every year in school students will accumulate a year’s worth of new knowledge, but h...
Janis Effner
CalArts Goes Global with Experimental Pop Collaboration
Emily Evans, Co-Director of the Experimental Pop Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), is using her ingenuity and expertise to reshape instruction with a global perspective. O...
John Barnette
Confronting Challenges in Online Education
With the dramatic increase in online education over the past two years, many teachers, administrators, and staff are confronting the specific challenges of not only managing a virtual classroom,...
Beau Neal
Schools Cannot Find Enough Substitute Teachers
Being a substitute teacher in a K-12 school is one of the most difficult jobs in education. Other than low pay like most educators, most substitutes are only paid for the days they work, if they...
Franklin Schargel
Trauma-Afflicted Students Learning to Re-Author Their Own Narratives
A compelling partnership in California’s Bay Area is providing music-supported therapeutic learning and empowerment to students at the Alameda County Juvenile Hall. Thanks to the California Arts...
John Barnett
Academic Achievement Can Open So Many Doors
To perhaps risk the ire of educators across the nation, we should ask, ‘Is academic performance really important? And if so, why?’ On its surface, these may seem like absurd questions for anyone...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
This Year, I am Thankful for…
It has become something of a tradition each year around Thanksgiving to write a piece about being grateful – what I am thankful for each year. This year I have so much for which to be thankful...
Charles Sosnik
High Schools & Cybersecurity
Whatever the motivation, cybersecurity threats have now become pervasive. They continue to upend every facet of the digital realm. The sad thing is that no institution, organization, or individu...
Ben Hartwig
How EdTech Supports Social and Emotional Learning
Perhaps at a quick glance, educational technologies and SEL, short for Social and Emotional Learning , don’t mesh together. EdTech solutions are often associated with teaching students hard ski...
Krista-Lotta Ojanen
Helping Students Regain Lost Ground by Focusing on Essential Standards
All standards are important, but this year, it’s more critical than ever to identify and emphasize those that are key to future learning.
Dave Gibbons
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
