Directs the State Board of Education, the Department of Public Instruction, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and the University of North Carolina educator preparation programs to collaborate with an experienced provider to develop and implement a comprehensive professional development strategy and solution for the use of technology and digital resources as teaching tools for K-12 students. Provides guidance for the contents of the professional development strategy and solution.

Directs the above listed parties and local boards of education of local school administrative units located within counties determined by the Department of Commerce to be the most economically distressed to collaborate with an experienced provider to implement student digital literacy instruction in kindergarten through eighth grade. Provides requirements for the contents of the curriculum.

Directs the Department of Public Instruction to use up to $1.8 million of the $4 million appropriated to the Department to accelerate implementation of the State's Digital Learning Plan to implement the requirements of this act.

Effective July 1, 2017.