Howard Dvorsky

Three teenagers talk about how schools should think about and manage students’ cellphone use.

Members of the nation’s largest teachers’ union say they want bans on cellphones during class time.

The FCC released a fact sheet about how the E-rate helps schools in response to a court ruling that threatens the program’s funding.

Here’s a decisionmaking tool for educators to map out the different potential outcomes when putting cellphone policies in play.

Benjamin Riley, founder and CEO of Cognitive Resonance, explains his concerns about using AI in education.

At Getting Smart, we are passionate about driving innovation in education. This year, we’ve submitted three exciting session proposals for SXSW 2025, and we need your support to bring these important conversations to the forefront. By voting for our sessions, you are actively contributing to advancing innovative education strategies that can significantly impact the future of learning. Your suppor...[Read More]

I recently visited the National Museum of African-American History and Culture In Washington, D.C. As I walked through the Afrofuturism exhibit, it was inspiring to see how out-of-this-world thinking has allowed Black visionaries to create new futures for Black children. Writer Greg Tate said, “Being Black in America is a science fiction experience.” Through the lens of Afrofuturism, new dreams ar...[Read More]

By: Shannon Murtagh  In 2021, deep in the midst of COVID, we surveyed Chief Innovation Officers (CIOs) working in public school districts across the country about the skills, core work, and mindsets that were most important to innovate for equity. These CIOs identified research and development (R&D) as the most important skill and the missing piece in driving innovation in their district. This...[Read More]

By: Dr. Tyler Thigpen A buddy of mine, Paul, works for a major airline headquartered in Atlanta. The airline deploys him to examine new technologies. He assesses whether integrating them will improve plane flights and, if so, what the ripple effects are. Money, time, and lives are at stake. What a responsibility! As an education leader, I feel a similar responsibility regarding new technology, tho...[Read More]

After a two-year investigation including hundreds of interviews, Kim Smith and Jen Holleran published a landscape of innovation in US K-12 education. What they found was a lot of confusion because there is not a single unified landscape. There are multiple systems are operating simultaneously often in the same geography:  Traditional Efficiency: schools organized in age cohorts focused on grade-le...[Read More]

At Getting Smart, we partner with organizations that help collectively reach our mission of actively building the future of learning by designing, accelerating and amplifying equitable innovations that empower all people to thrive and lead in a complex world.  Within our learning design work, we spend a lot of time writing about, supporting and implementing three critical elements: values, goals a...[Read More]

By: History Co:Lab “What would a map of every opportunity in Pittsburgh where young people feel powerful and seen look like?” On June 25th, at the Civic Learning Ecosystem’s Youth Design Day, youth leaders, educators, civic organizers, and community members from southwestern Pennsylvania gathered in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s SLB Youth Media Center to co-create an answer to this questio...[Read More]