Digital Transformation

For aspiring art students, a partnership between Skillshare and Procreate has produced a series of online videos demonstrating how to merge the earliest cartooning concepts with the latest digital drawing tools.

The addition of SchoolNow marks the company’s sixth acquisition since October 2021, with a long-term goal of building an “all-in-one system” to communicate with families and reduce chronic student absenteeism.

Colleges and universities are increasing investments in new supercomputer infrastructure for both research and classroom applications, especially in physics, astronomical sciences and communications.

With help from a community foundation grant, a middle school in Wisconsin purchased 30 pairs of virtual reality goggles to take students on virtual field trips to faraway places and times in history.

Pearland Independent School District has proposed a $105 million bond election in May for infrastructure and technology, including wireless access points equipment, network updates and new devices.

A Washington school district is putting $47,000 in state grants toward mobile translation devices and community classes for families on how to navigate the Internet and specific technology tools.

The Network of Academic and Scholastic Esports Federations has 3,500 clubs across 50 U.S. states, with members in 70 countries. Some colleges provide scholarships so students can play while majoring in STEM subjects.

Roughly three-quarters of essay answers on the STAAR test, the standardized achievement test in Texas K-12 schools, will be assessed by an automated scoring engine programmed to emulate how humans would score an essay.

PlayVS is the official platform of North Carolina's Varsity Esports and STEM League, organized by the STEM education and esports company Stiegler EdTech to incorporate educational competitions into the esports calendar.

Greenwich Public Schools in Connecticut are asking the town for $1.1 million over five years to fix inadequate cell service at the high school, citing safety concerns in the event Wi-Fi goes down.

Pivoting to remote learning Tuesday because of an intense snow storm, New York City Public Schools had issues taking attendance and using programs that required an IBM authentication to log in.

The biggest accelerator of K-12 innovation is changing attitudes toward demonstrating learning, and the top hurdle is staff recruitment and retention, according to an annual report from the Consortium for School Networking.

Montana State University will spend a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation on major upgrades to computer systems used for research in quantum science, large data analysis and artificial intelligence.

Savvas Learning Company, which produces digital learning tools for K-12, hopes to bring dual enrollment and dual-credit opportunities to its clients by acquiring an ed-tech startup that offers online college courses.

EPS Learning, formerly known as EPS School Specialty, will focus on K-12 literacy tools for both digital and print that incorporate the science of reading.

A journalism teacher at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., crafted her own media-literacy curriculum with Ted Talks, documentaries, articles about TikTok’s algorithm and examples of AI-enhanced images.

The nonprofit Internet Safety Labs found that exposure to trackers and behavioral ads on school devices vary by race and income, and often the source of the problem is the school’s own official website.

Among more than 550 sessions at the National Future of Education Technology Conference in Florida this year, nearly one-fifth were about artificial intelligence, covering uses in classroom instruction and data analytics.