Digital Transformation

Superintendents at the EdTech Week conference in New York City encouraged ed-tech vendors to understand district priorities, invest in long-term relationships with schools, and design for interoperability and impact.

Digital safety isn’t just compliance — it’s design philosophy, according to industry leaders from MagicSchool AI, Kahoot! and AI for Equity at the EdTech Week conference in New York City.

In partnership with Axis Research & Technologies, the university intends to build a 36,000-square-foot surgical center with technology to give surgery students real-time feedback on skills, teamwork and procedures.

The RAND Corporation’s 2025 American Mathematics Educator Survey found that 52 percent of Texas teachers used AI in math instruction at least once last year, but more than 20 percent hadn’t received training.

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office is working with the ed-tech vendor Liaison to make the CCCApply system more user-friendly, automated and secure.

To make sense of a complex state initiative, many school districts in California have turned to the behavioral health technology platform TadHealth that simplifies complex billing processes for users.

Decatur City Schools is one of five districts in Alabama to receive virtual-reality headsets from the ed-tech company Prisms of Reality, which will allow students to interact with abstract ideas in real-world scenarios.

The university's new lab includes technology to perform intra-oral scans and produce polished dentures and dental guards in minutes, giving students practice with the latest techniques in digital dentistry.

New financial software at Syracuse City School District has led to hundreds of problems with paychecks and benefits, which district officials attribute to the complexity of the system and new procedures for staff.

By 2015, for-profit management companies ran a large share of the cyber schools across the U.S., but for Commonwealth Charter Academy, separating from them brought in more money, independence and control over curricula.

Even after the initial pandemic-era rush to cyber charter schools subsided, Commonwealth Charter Academy has continued to grow because many parents are dissatisfied with their local public schools.

The University of Colorado Boulder launched a free mobile app for students, faculty and staff that can send emergency alerts and connect with local dispatch, mental health assistance and campus reporting services.

Lessons in digital literacy and citizenship, along with positive teacher-student relationships, may help schools combat the negative impact of online influencers on boys who struggle with loneliness or low self-esteem.

Given the results of school cellphone restrictions so far, some education leaders argue that overreliance on screens and devices in general is responsible for years of declines in student attention and achievement.

Opening this fall, the Colome Cyber Academy will give students individualized learning plans tailored to their goals, intended to meet growing demand for flexibility amid declining enrollment at traditional schools.

Pennsylvania only renews charters of cyber schools that agree to enrollment caps, but those schools can continue to operate without a charter. Some cyber leaders say this approach gives those schools more freedom to grow.

The first time Waterbury Fire Department in Connecticut conducted its EMT exam on computers, an investigation found seven of 13 cadets had taken advantage of the technology and lax supervision to cheat.

Major growth and investment by major companies in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, along with the federal government's new stake in Intel, could affect institutional decision-making.