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The Alliance for Excellent Education invites district level educators to harness digital learning day within your own districts by challenging community leaders, parents, and students to join the wave of innovation being created by the first-ever national Digital Learning Day campaign. 

 

Get inspired! Visit the district showcase. 

 

Districts can host their own celebration of innovative teaching practices that make learning more personalized and engaging and encourage exploration of how digital learning can provide more students with opportunities to ensure they are prepared to succeed in college, career, and life.  Stakeholders are signing up each day, and more than 35 states have already committed to host their own Digital Learning Day; and you can build upon their efforts.  

 

What Do You Mean When You Say “Digital Learning?”

The Alliance refers to digital learning as a broad array of topics and approaches where technology can help in school reform efforts. This may be in teacher preparation and continuing education, STEM and innovation instruction, broadband access for all, using data to inform instruction, personalizing instruction, increasing quality teacher time, online/blended learning opportunities as well as using robust digital content in high-quality lessons. The Alliance seeks to use Digital Learning Day to highlight these innovative teaching approaches and celebrate the potential of technology as a force multiplier in America’s schools.

 

What Are Districts Doing?

As a participating district, you can decide how much or how little you would like to do to support the event. We also know that February 1st may not be the most convenient day for you. We ask you to think about how this national celebration of teachers may be introduced as a district celebration, either on that day or sometime in January, February, March or April.  This is more than a DAY. We know that learning should be happening with technology EVERY DAY, so the Alliance will be creating a drumbeat highlighting teachers, innovative practices, and the effective uses of technology starting now and culminating in a national town hall meeting in DC on February 1st and then followed up with several months of awards and special recognition.

 

Host districts should feel free to use this national celebration to call attention to the need for digital learning in your district in whatever way you see fit. A toolkit full of ideas, sample documents and activities is available to download at http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/. The toolkits include many resources, lesson plans, project based learning frameworks, and other resources identified by a group of master educators from across the country. A district can craft its Digital Learning Day to suit internal resources, time commitments, and scope. Here are a few ideas:

  • Take a look at the districts being showcased so far.
  • Send periodic emails to principals, school educational technology professionals, and teacher leaders to garner excitement in the district.
  • Offer a printable certificate of achievement signed by your superintendent (provided by the Alliance)
  • Sponsor a showcase at your district office highlighting your innovative teachers and students.
  • Ask your school board or superintendent to proclaim February 1 as Digital Learning Day.
  • Award a teacher, school, or student with a district specific Digital Learning Day Award.
  • Awesome Ideas! Check out this page to see what others are doing to celebrate Digital Learning Day.

Do you have thoughts about other documents you would like to see on the list? Have you developed something to share? Please contact Sara Hall at shall@all4ed.org with your ideas.

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