Digital Transformation

Schools will administer the new digital version of the SAT exam in March, and parents are already concerned about the change, in some cases recommending that their kids take the test this fall or skip it altogether.

A recent survey from the digital learning platform Clever found that most teachers and administrators want more tech support for students with disabilities or Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Student coaches with AmeriCorps’ City Year program will have access to digital tools and an online dashboard from the education software company Curriculum Associates to aid struggling students in grades three to five.

Through a government program called Community Eligibility Provision, a school district in Indiana is providing student families with access to tablets and a monthly Internet service even during the summer.

Panelists at the recent AR/VR Policy Conference said AR/VR tools have a unique ability to broaden participation and engagement in STEM courses, provided the tools are created and adopted with accessibility in mind.

With online resources being increasingly necessary for school work, a nation-wide T-Mobile program is offering free Internet connectivity and mobile hotspots to up to 10 million eligible K-12 student households.

The growing scope of a university CIO’s job necessitates a deepening relationship to an institution’s business interests, digital transformation, cybersecurity and development of internal talent.

Finding that students had become exceptionally reliant on cell phones while locked down during COVID-19, a Massachusetts school district now requires them to store phones in magnetically sealed pouches during the day.

Experts say communities across the U.S. have made significant progress in efforts to expand Internet access, largely through private-public partnerships and localized initiatives to make broadband affordable to families.

Though their services are illegal in some countries, companies that combine generative AI and human labor to write essays that are undetectable by anti-cheating software are soliciting clients on TikTok and Meta.

The ninth annual ED Games Expo will occupy the Kennedy Center from Sept. 19-22, with ed-tech developers and representatives of public agencies talking to students and teachers about classroom tools and innovations.

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.

A $14 million grant will go to school districts in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Chicago and Indianapolis for expenses that include training teachers on AI and incorporating it into computer-science classes.

The Alabama Community College System will make Canvas and other Instructure products available to all students in its 24 public community and technical colleges by fall 2024.

Eidex, whose K-12 data and reporting tools serve more than 500 schools in various states, is now part of Munetrix. The larger company will do business with municipalities and school districts in Michigan and beyond.

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.

A North Carolina school district is giving parents the ability to track their child's bus ride, with onboarding and departure times, on the Here Comes the Bus app. The app will also flag if a child gets on the wrong bus.

A Massachusetts school district is implementing the Zonar Z Pass system that tracks buses and allows approved district staff to identify who is on a bus, when and where they got on and when and where they got off.