Digital Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students are able to improve their skills to create a more engaging and effective education process. Here are the ways that a comprehensive digital transformation approach is dramatically shifting education in today's classrooms. Support for this toolkit generously provided by SHI.

A Culture for Transformation

Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students can create a more engaging and effective education process

PDF icon PDF

Digital Transformation in K-12 Education

Digital tools are transforming the world we live in today, as well as the one our students will lead tomorrow

PDF icon PDF

The Keys to Digital Transformation

Digital transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that are relevant, valuable, and help build tangible skills

PDF icon PDF

Embracing Transformation

Today’s schools must embrace the technological future and engage with technology to change and adapt

PDF icon PDF

Digital Transformation and Disruption

Digital natives demand mobile devices in the classroom, virtual learning environments, teaching via video, and online assessment

PDF icon PDF

Managing Digital Transformation in the Classroom

This adaptable presentation shows both the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents

File PPTX

Making the Right Decisions for Your School District

The success of one-to-one computing depends on several issues that must be addressed through research and policy considerations

PDF icon PDF

BYOD Planning and Implementation Framework

Developing a successful BYOD program requires extensive planning, communication, and ongoing evaluation

PDF icon PDF

BYOD Readiness Checklist for School Districts

Determine your school or district's readiness for BYOD

PDF icon PDF

Technology Policies for School Boards

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting to school boards

File PPTX

Technology Policy and School Staff and Faculty

A sample Policy presentation that can be modified and adapted for your own use when presenting to staff and faculty

File PPTX

Components of a Successful PLC

A comprehensive checklist that details what all thriving Professional Learning Communities have in common

PDF icon PDF

The Decision To Go Digital

Success depends on a strong network of professionals working together to support digital programs

PDF icon PDF

Digital Curriculum Challenges

Consider the following challenges you might encounter when migrating to digital content

PDF icon PDF

Digital Curriculum Checklist

Evaluate your school’s readiness for a digital curriculum

PDF icon PDF

Mentoring and PLCs

Professional Learning Communities can act as dynamic support systems for teachers

PDF icon PDF

Opening Up to Open Educational Resources

A comprehensive guide to OER and how these teaching and learning materials are freely available to anyone

PDF icon PDF

Ready to Alter Your Role?

New tasks and challenges call for developing new abilities and setting aside old habits

PDF icon PDF

Strategies for Principals to Implement Effective PLCs

A checklist for principals in creating a culture of continuous learning for their schools

PDF icon PDF

Thinking of Flipping

Additional details on what this approach entails and the policies that impact flipped classroom

PDF icon PDF

Tablets in education: Why one Texas school district turned to the Surface

Here’s how a Texas school district narrowed down the tablet field and what option they ultimately settled on.

PDF icon PDF

Upgrading to Windows 10: How SHI helped one school migrate 45,000 devices

Here’s how one school district migrated—and staved off a major ransomware attack in the process.

PDF icon PDF

A Simple IT Environment can Harbor Complex Challenges

An upgrade in a Washington, D.C. school ballooned into a bigger project that improved the IT setup of the entire school.

PDF icon PDF
Education Technology Use in Schools report
News
Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund's Education Technology Use in Schools report

Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund conducted a national survey about the use of educational technology in schools.  Here are their findings.
Publication
The Right Windows Device for K-12 Education

The education team at Intel® hired Clarity Innovations to research and develop this report to examine how processor performance affects teaching and learning. Be sure to download this free whitepaper.
Blog
Google Slides For Math

While PowerPoint is mostly a static tool for delivering a lesson, Google Slides can be used collaboratively for many purposes in the math classroom.
Blog
My Students Video Their Homework, and Everything Is Better

Purposeful homework indeed has a purpose, yet I need to have boundaries on my own time. Enter the concept of video homework.
Blog
Creating Launch Points

Schools can do more than simply prepare students for academic success. Let's help students find their launch points—those points that set the stage for a person’s life.  
The 2019 Horizon Report
News
The 2019 Horizon Report is Here

The 2019 Horizon Report is here, profiling key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in educational technology.
Blog
Enhancing Sharing in Simple and Meaningful New Ways

Ed-tech company Clarity Innovations worked with the Math Learning Center to create a dynamic new way to share math learning with teachers and peers. 
Blog
Reflections on Tech Use with Young Children

If technology isn't "good enough" for the children of the Silicon Valley innovators who created it, how can we defend its use in schools, especially with young children?
Blog
A Bird? A Plane? No: They're Super-Literates!

The gulf between the "functional” and the “super-literate” is expanding. How will educators and students keep pace with these changes?
Blog
E3 and the Four Cs: eSports in K-12 Education

eSports—multiplayer video games played competitively for spectators—could soon have implications in the modern classroom.

Pages