As the U.S. Department of Education builds a new National Education Technology Plan, educators discuss how teachers can mend the digital divide.

The IBM Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education Accelerator (EA) program for L.A. Unified was designed to upskill educators in the development and integration of Computer Science (CS) and AI across the district.

A pilot program across Los Angeles Unified illustrates how to support system-level digital citizenship education for leaders.

In an international UNESCO report, L.A. Unified efforts are highlighted as a global example in local instructional technology implementation aligned to national, state, and local policies and grounded in the ISTE Standards.

 

Read how the Instructional Technology Initiative (ITI) team leverages the ISTE Education Leader Standards to design, develop, and deliver personalized professional learning content. Reprinted with permission from ISTE.

Read how personalized professional learning experiences influenced an L.A. Unified principal to reimagine her instructional technology leadership approach. Reprinted with permission from ISTE.

What is the difference between schools who are using technology effectively and those who are not? More often than not, says Culatta, it comes down to creating a vision for learning before jumping into buying devices or software. Culatta describes how using a shared set of digital-learning strategies helped the Los Angeles Unified School District rework a failed technology strategy and right path to meeting its central goal of enabling more effective and more innovative learning for students. Reprinted with permission from ASCD.

 

Read about how L.A. Unified did a total turnaround and became a model for instructional technology success. This article appears in the International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) members-only print magazine, Empowered Learner. Reprinted with permission from ISTE.

Read about a district's commitment to empowering and collaborative online engagement.

Read about a digital citizenship curriculum can help students and educators better understand the teaching and learning opportunities afforded through social media.