Students are playing a key role in tweaking a mobile app that offers 24/7 advice, reassurances, and links to activities or informational videos for teens, and it's relieving some overworked school counselors.
A new, free online resource from the nonprofit Consortium for School Networking makes cybersecurity standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology intelligible and achievable for K-12 leaders.
An early warning dashboard will be available to Indiana's K-12 districts before the 2024-2025 academic year to help identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time due to chronic absenteeism and other issues.
According to SETDA, 32 states have statewide digital learning plans, a dozen require local districts to come up with their own plans, and some have provisions other than mandates to encourage classroom technology use.
In a virtual panel discussion Friday, several professors shared their experiences with having students use generative AI for writing assignments and recommended that students be allowed to learn by trial and error.
A partnership between the National Environmental Education Foundation, Discovery Education and various major U.S. companies will provide free videos, lesson plans and other online materials starting in November.
Delivery Associates, an international consulting firm, launched the Community Funding Accelerator pilot program to match K-12 districts with federal grants and guide them through the application process.
Among organizations that reported data leaks since 2019, 56 percent were private companies, and research found small organizations that employed less than 50 workers were more likely to lose client data.
For families and students who lack home Internet or personal devices, the introduction of technologies like artificial intelligence in schools may only exacerbate digital inequities.
The Center for Digital Thriving, which opens next month at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, will conduct research with various universities, mental health professionals, educators and families.
