Takeaways from Digital Learning Day

Digital Learning Day on March 13th brought together thousands of educators engaged in digital learning.

Over 40,000 people tuned in online to watch Digital Learning Day Live!, a town hall-style event in downtown Washington D.C. that featured best practices from schools and districts nationwide. For those of you who missed it, you can watch the recorded event on the Digital Learning Day website.

Perhaps the day's biggest success was the way technology allowed educators from around the world to connect. Digital learners tweeted up a storm, using the hashtags #DLDay and #DLDaylive. Educators exchanged activities and ideas to use technology more effectively. Here are a few highlights:

At the Digital Learning Day Live! event, these sixth-graders showed off their engineering skills:

Maker Ambassadors presenting their designs to educators at #TLConf2015 #DLDay #stuvoice pic.twitter.com/EHi0m555QI

— R. McLelland-Crawley (@Bec_Chirps) March 13, 2015

Robotics proved to be popular in other parts of the country as well:

Programming LegoWeDo birds to turn and make different sounds!#DLDayLive #theridgelearns pic.twitter.com/Yo7awCxy7o

— Cheryl Gerloff (@GerloffCheryl) March 13, 2015

Educators shared their advice and experiences with digital learning:

It’s okay if the students know more about digital devices than the teacher. We need to be a learner too. #TLConf2015 #DLDaylive #DLDay

— Julie D. Ramsay (@JulieDRamsay) March 13, 2015

#dldaylive A: Teachers need to help students move from consumers of media/tech to creators of things, of finding their voice.

— KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) March 13, 2015

Students added their own thoughts on how they best learn:

We need to fail so we can eventually succeed & give us grp projects so we can collaborate. #TLConf2015 #DLDayLive pic.twitter.com/3JnVEvdxDx

— Geneviève DeBose (@GenevieveDeBose) March 13, 2015

Educators also swapped resources:

.RT @KatrinaStevens1: Check out the @OfficeofEdTech's #FutureReady Infrastructure Guide: http://t.co/h5Aty2h4Of #DLDayLive

— AZHSPRIN (@AZHSPRIN) March 14, 2015