Written with Alan Gershenfeld, Founder and President of E-Line Media

The White House recently announced two major initiatives in learning and technology -- these "digital seed capital" efforts are "down-payments" to jumpstart innovation and break a two decade long cycle of snail-like reform. The first is...

America's preschoolers spend about four hours a day consuming media, ranging from television (still No. 1) to Internet, digital video, and young gamer favorites such as Club Penguin, SesameStreet.org and Little Big Planet. Start with the recent explosion of touchscreen tablets and apps, add a healthy dose of new 'i-tot'...

The recent series of reports on technology's unfulfilled promise by the New York Times called "Grading the Digital School" is an important wake-up call for everyone who claims that the digital frontier will help transform schools as we know them. While every other sector -- from manufacturing to...

The popularity and increasing innovation of video game play is providing a new and surprisingly fresh framework for policy discussions about education reform. On Father's Day, President Obama spoke eloquently about the importance of being an engaged Dad, and urged fathers to "turn off the video games and pick up...

Tomorrow, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is presenting a report at the E 3 Expo in Los Angeles that may surprise media designers and cause policymakers to step back from their current concerns about kids' digital multitasking addiction, cyber-bullying, violent videogames, and mobile disruptions in school. While...

As President Obama discusses our State of the Union with a much needed focus on innovation, education and investment in America's future, let's focus on one area that is ripe for radical change: how digital media can be used for education and hands-on, lifelong learning beginning right from the start.

Here's an unlikely HuffPost confession: we are unabashed "Gleeks!" In one season, the television show Glee has become a pop culture phenomenon, capturing the ups and downs of high school life in a hip, smart musical dramedy.

Our inner wonkiness takes comfort in the fact that aside...

This teacher bashing must stop! It is an unwise diversion from what matters most: teaching children to love learning and be creative right from the start. As an unabashed ally in the moral outrage that animates Davis Guggenheim's powerful film "Waiting for 'Superman' ", count me as a skeptic of...

American students' lack of knowledge about the world is unsettling.

According to surveys by National Geographic and Asia Society, young Americans are next to last in their knowledge of geography and current affairs compared to peers in eight other countries, and the overwhelming majority of college-bound seniors cannot find...