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A Growing Danger of the Digital Use Divide: A Media Illiterate Generation
Since the introduction of computers into classrooms, the premise has been that increased access to technology would result in more creative, rigorous, personalized, and meaningful learning than what was possible in an analog world. However, despite...
Help Bring TLA to SXSW EDU 2023
It’s that time of year once again! The public voting period for SXSW EDU’s PanelPicker has arrived, and we would appreciate your help in bringing The Learning Accelerator (TLA) back to Austin. As you consider sessions to support this year, please...
There’s No Digital Equity Without Data Privacy
Whether consciously or unconsciously, apps, internet service providers, and even schools could be selling or releasing data related to students’ — and teachers’ — locations, browsing habits, email content, and even direct messages. Over the past...
Ryan Mick: A Conversation on Equity-Driven Leadership
Ryan Mick joins The Learning Accelerator in the newly created role of Chief Program Officer, tasked with managing the execution, improvement, and development of TLA’s core programs while orchestrating a compelling vision for our next phase of...
TLA Fall Update, November 2021
Explore TLA's latest releases, research, and happenings in our Fall 2021 TLA Update. Topics covered in this newsletter include upcoming cohort learning opportunities, inspiring pandemic innovations in K-12, digital equity, adult wellbeing,...
Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Leveraging technology to “do education differently” and focus on equity, social-emotional learning (SEL)
Dr. Jilliam Joe is the Vice President of Learning Insights at LEAP Innovations. Jilliam has dedicated her career as an educational researcher to measuring effective teaching practices. At LEAP, she provides research and evaluation leadership for...
The pandemic forced many to change how they teach the arts. What can we learn from them?
Few of us would argue that engaging students in the arts — visual, music, dance — is an important part of school. It’s well documented that arts engagement supports academic and social development, but with competing demands on time and budgets,...
Barriers, Challenges, and Empathy in Fostering Broadband Access
This piece was originally published on ShapingEDU: Part 1, Part 2. In this two-part series, TLA Partner Beth Holland shares the insights gleaned from her research into digital equity for students across the United States. Dr. Holland underscores...
Looking Back and Looking Forward: Lessons from Lindsay Unified School District
Schools across the country (and around the world) are in the throes of responding to the challenges of remote learning as a result of the novel coronavirus crisis. For the moment, many schools might feel as though they are in survival mode, but...
The Remote DEI Collective: Exploring the intersections of remote work and DEI
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent need for physical distancing, schools, organizations, and companies are scrambling to put the systems in place to allow for remote work. With this shift, some are even wondering whether operating virtually is...
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