Digital Transformation

Launched last year to track student success after high school, the Indiana Department of Education’s new “Graduates Prepared to Succeed” online dashboard aims to make districts more accountable to state benchmarks.

The fintech company ClassWallet will help the state manage distribution of $30 million in federal funds to assist K-12 students in purchasing program-compliant educational materials and services.

Pennsylvania's largest school district has joined a state program offering student mental health services through Kooth, but some parents are wary of more data collection and digital mediation through an online platform.

A Washington school district will use grant money from Eastern Oregon University's Greater Oregon STEM Hub to buy robots to develop coding skills in young students and augment the teaching of other subjects.

Assistant Secretary Roberto Rodriguez of the U.S. Department of Education has seen recent progress in narrowing the digital divide and thinks new technologies could help address several problems while creating others.

Beaufort County School District in South Carolina has two separate programs, different from the makeshift ones it used during the pandemic, that have allowed some students to flourish by learning from home.

A Tuesday webinar at the annual Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) conference explored the pros, cons and potential classroom applications of artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT.

Speaking at the annual CoSN conference Monday, education author Michael Horn outlined the ways that schools can use technology to rethink instruction and create a “mastery-based” learning model.

School officials at a district in Indiana see the potential for ChatGPT to enable better research or laziness among students, or both. Like many, they're waiting to see how other organizations adjust.

In the scramble to solve looming challenges in education regarding broadband, online learning, artificial intelligence or any number of new technologies, it’s easy to overlook astonishing improvements.

An initiative through Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management is trying to make higher education more accessible to women and girls around the globe via the Canvas online learning platform.

Some experts say advances in artificial intelligence could yield educational tools to accurately assess reading level, comprehension, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and other skills that can be difficult to measure.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa Primary School in Minnesota is teaching students how to use technology while employing it to augment and connect lesson plans, bridge the divide between subjects and create more holistic education.

Meta-analyses of many studies have found that students comprehend and retain more from reading printed texts than screens, but design features and teaching metacognition could help make the most out of digital materials.

The pandemic brought accelerated tech adoption, new funding opportunities and operational changes to higher education. The near future may require careful prioritization and institutional investment.

Maryann Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA, explains in a Q&A that digital screens over-utilize the brain's novelty reflex, but they help students in particular cases.

Advocates for online civil liberties and people with low incomes say student data collection can be unfair and put students at risk, and it's time for federal agencies to ensure tech tools align with data privacy laws.

New York state grants set aside for purchases like computer servers, interactive whiteboards, tablets and high-speed broadband will afford Queensbury Union Free School District 1,000 new Chromebooks.