Digital Transformation
Coverage of the movement away from physical textbooks and classrooms toward digital operations in K-12 schools and higher education. Examples include virtual classrooms and remote learning, educational apps, learning management systems, broadband and other digital infrastructure for schools, and the latest research on grading and teaching.
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The Next Gen NAEP initiative seeks to modernize the national measurement of student learning by making it simpler to use and access, faster to develop, and cheaper and easier to report results. -
Bend-La Pine Schools in Oregon is reviewing ed-tech programs, creating a website page for ed tech for transparency, ensuring tech for grades K-2 is developmentally appropriate, and looking at device privacy and security.
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Michigan has completed the first technical proof-of-concept stage for MiGreatDataLake and is now entering the next phase: governance, trust, interoperability and real-world implementation.
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School districts looking to hire a chief technology officer should convene interview committees with a variety of expertise and consult established cybersecurity resources like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
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As a result of feedback from students and parents, Simons Middle School in Fleming County, Ky., is not doing away with Chromebooks altogether but more deliberately limiting their use starting this fall.
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To make SAT prep more effective and financially accessible, a sophomore at Dr. Kiran C. Patel High School in Florida created the tutoring app Aceit using a collaborative interface design tool and ChatGPT.
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District technology leaders say schools are not facing a sudden AI bandwidth crisis, but AI is steadily transforming the architecture of school networks, devices, cybersecurity systems and budgets.
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Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park, Ill., is expanding its use of the Smart Pass system from Raptor Technologies, which helps identify high-traffic areas and find students in emergency situations.
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A new facility at Michigan Virtual’s headquarters in Lansing gives educators, administrators and policymakers a sandbox in which to experiment with classroom design and emerging tech before bringing them into schools.
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The 2026 CoSN State of EdTech findings mark a return to security and governance as priorities while districts grapple with integrating generative artificial intelligence into everyday operations.
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An app installed on school-issued Chromebooks from Lexington-Richland 5 will allow parents to not only monitor use history, but see how the Chromebook is being used in real time.
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The nonprofits FullScale and All4Ed chose 13 rural schools and districts to explore, pilot and implement artificial intelligence based on their specific needs and capacities.
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Congress is pushing to regulate the Internet for kids after decades of harms posed by an evolving digital landscape. Experts say this well-intended effort may fundamentally alter privacy protocol for every user.
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A spokesperson for the New York State Education Department said glitches related to the state’s testing vendor, the Northwest Evaluation Association, impacted a “limited number” of test-takers in select school districts.
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When a student can acquire a four-year degree in just weeks of online classes, it no longer signals to employers that they can show up on time, read and write, and manage sustained effort within institutional structures.
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In response to student feedback, Virginia State University worked with the nonprofit Ed Advancement on a platform that aggregates financial, academic and administrative information into a single interface for HBCUs.
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Software companies Oracle and Drivestream developed a simulated environment for administrators and IT leaders from 15 institutions to see how AI agents could augment university operations.
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After years of rapid ed-tech expansion accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning, many teachers and parents think early education is entering a moment of reckoning.
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Many states are implementing new laws and policies to curb screen time in classrooms, but some experts say blanket bans and rigid mandates fail to account for unique circumstances in individual classrooms.
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A school district in Nebraska is contracting with the online platform Goalbook, which special education teachers said makes it easier to write individualized education plans (IEPs) so they can focus on other things.
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Stanford researcher Chris Agnew says educational goals, not tools, should be the jumping-off point for ed-tech strategy, starting with what kids need to be able to do, then what learning experiences they need.
