Education - Issue #168 - A Better Digital Education

Three Rules of the New Digital Classroom

1. Higher-order thinking skills are essential for success, so we should use edtech to drive that thinking

2. Give students opportunities to lead their learning and use edtech to show their thinking in new ways

3. Pedagogy first, edtech second—don’t let the tool get in the way of the learning

The U.S. government has funded a program to teach cybersecurity to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The program is led by the Cyber Innovation Center, which is a research foundation that brings together the government, educators, and the private sector to promote research, education, and technical innovation. The goal of the program is to increase the future cybersecurity workforce by encouraging schoolchildren to consider a career in the field., as well as to provide some standardization of cybersecurity education at each grade level.