Digital Learning

Host Anita Rao talks about how emojis get created with Charles Carson, the managing editor of Duke University Press’ linguistics journal, American Speech, and a member of the Unicode emoji subcommittee. Susan Herring, professor of information science and linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, also s to talk about the linguistic use of emoji. Rao also gets hot takes on emoji usage from two teenagers: high school seniors Ellie Stevens and Amanda Tsuetaki, who are also a part of WUNC’s Youth Reporting Institute.

This March, our world turned digital. Zoom meetings, virtual school and video chats dominated work, school and home life. To ease this transition to…

The State Board of Education this month approved $1.2 million in grants to digital learning initiatives in 30 school districts and one charter…

The bell rings at Granville Central High School to signal lunch time on a recent afternoon. Hundreds of students pour into the hallways carrying…

North Carolina lawmakers are banking on the benefits of digital learning. Four years ago they ed legislation requiring that state funding for…

People with few means but big hearts stepped in to help Cliff Missen as he transitioned in and out of foster care as a child. When he turned 18, Missen…

People with few means but big hearts stepped in to help Cliff Missen as he transitioned in and out of foster care as a child. When he turned 18, Missen…

In North Carolina classrooms today, students are dealing with far fewer textbooks. Over the last seven years, state money for books has dropped…

North Carolina lawmakers ed several education-related bills on Wednesday, just hours before their legislative “crossover” deadline. Most bills that do…

A year after leaving office, former Governor Bev Perdue is returning to the public stage with the launch of a new project focused on digital learning. In…