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Happy President's Day! While many are on holiday, we've still got the Daily Digest bright and early for you all. Today's digest features information on closing the gender gap in computer sciences at Harvard University, expanding kindergarten readnig assessments in Ohio, a takeover of Time Warner Cable and how it will reshape the US Pay TV, and encouraging students to train for high-tech manufacturing careers. Also included is information on how the University of Maine will focus on competency-based education rather than using letter grades. 

The first thing I did when the opportunity to write this blog presented itself was to Google National Innovation Day—and what I found made me smile.

National Innovation Day, which is observed annually in the United States every February 16, was created to encourage children and young people to be creative and innovative.

Today's digest focuses on NASA's efforts to join 3D manufacturing efforts, manufacturing job growth prompting efforts in high schools by offering career technical education programs, and a highlight on a successful STEM Education Model and efforts ot promote the model across the nation. Also included is information on schools assisting young readers in Ohio in accordance with the Reading Requirements, and an international Additive Manufacturing project in Quebec. 

Today we focus on Columbus' library system renovations in accordance with the new digital requirements in libraries nationwide, higher education online courses offered by the World Economic Forum and a new proposed state house bill to offer tax credits to STEM degree earners in Ohio. Also included is information on Ohio University keeping a flat four-year tuition cost, and agriculture and natural-resources benefitting from the new Ohio farm bill. 

A number of IT writers and experts have forecasted a high turnover industry-wide among CIOs and their staffs in 2014. ... Many of the same factors behind the corporate shake-ups also have increased the churn at the CIO desks of an unusually higher number of colleges and universities across Ohio. In 2014, we’ll see new faces at many of our member institutions, ...

Still combatting the snowy weather, we bring you another daily digest filled with updates on free community college in Tennessee, Ohio reading proficiency levels for STEM students, and a new pledge from Apple and Microsoft toward education technology. Also included is information on the FCC funding for high-speed internet in schools, and the farm bill creating a second-land grant university in Ohio. 

You might wonder, “What is Digital Learning?” According to Ohio Senate Bill 316, “Digital learning, means learning facilitated by technology that gives students some element of control over time, place, path or pace of learning.” Digital learning encompasses the effective use of technology to empower teachers and students. Digital Learning Day (DLD) allows schools a set time to discuss and share ways to provide every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment every day, with the goal of success in college and a career. It is a day to celebrate and empower teachers, showcase innovative usages of technology and share resources.

Transition and change can be a good thing; this year I will call it evolution. The Ohio Educational Technology Conference (OETC 2014), formerly known as the e-TECH Conference, is emerging as the nation’s top conference for educational technology. Changes this year included the addition of higher ed, greater emphasis on emerging technology and gaming, sessions targeted to instruct rather than just be informative, and changing the design and flow to increase visibility of speakers, sessions and vendors. All these things led to the largest Ohio ed-tech gathering to date.

Today's digest features a wide range of information from job creation in Ohio through the Ohio Tax Authority, development of new manufacturing hubs, and nuclear power station redevelopment. Also included is information on cloud-based analytics in Montreal being used for cost-saving techniques, and the National Association of Manufacturers providing more insight on growth in the US 

Today's digest features information on Representative Tim Ryan's efforts to encourage manufacturing to strengthen the US economy, and an Ohio charter school planned for students to enter into the oil and gas industries. Also included is information on a new online-learning hybrid model university, an online computer science Masters program pilot release, and information on Ohio's drop-out rate and efforts to curb this. Also of interest is information on a new report discussing the decreasing demand for teachers statewide in Ohio. 

Despite today's freezing temperatures, we have the daily digest filled with information on Ohio State's funding for its Big Data program, the Titan supercomputer being used to propel wind turbines, and education reform in Ohio. Also included is news on Ford, Stanford and MIT partnering together to explore research on self-driving cars and the White House's new Big Data privacy review.