Digital Transformation

School-approved devices in participating districts can connect to secure Wi-Fi well beyond the classroom or student homes under Kajeet's expanded partnership with eduroam, a roaming Wi-Fi service for school networks.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced a partnership with the mental health platform Uwill to provide round-the-clock virtual services to students at 44 higher-education institutions, both private and public.

A new AI classroom tool, set to be released in beta later this year, can generate study guides, answer student questions based on what was taught in class and elaborate on specific sections of lectures.

Fort Bend Independent School District in Texas is installing tablets next to school-bus doors which students will use to scan their ID cards as they get on and off, allowing staff and parents to know where they are.

University at Buffalo joins Transportation Infrastructure Precast Innovation Center, where five schools will spend $10 million to improve ways precast concrete is used in highway and bridge construction.

Finalists from North Carolina, Indiana and Pennsylvania created technology to change how student outcomes are assessed in a $1 million contest run by XPRIZE and an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

Health officials are focusing on how telehealth technology is transforming childhood mental health treatment, while also bridging the gap between mental health care, underserved populations and addiction treatment.

The two agencies, which provide curriculum for advanced high school classes, published very different policies on their websites, with one banning the use of generative AI and the other welcoming it.

Many online courses have low completion rates, and the new ed-tech platform Courus proposes to address this by tailoring lessons to each student's particular goals, interests and skill sets.

An event at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education this weekend will have school officials from Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Santa Clara and Sacramento to present three-year roadmaps to improve digital literary.

Experts in technology, education and artificial intelligence expect the next generation of tools will empower students, give them more autonomy over their education and generate more data as well as risks.

The higher ed enterprise software company Ellucian intends to expand its footprint globally through technology and sales partnerships with startups, tech giants and other players in the ed-tech space.

Districts across the United States can see the need for new professional development to coach teachers on the inner workings, use cases and hazards of AI tools, but many are waiting for more clarity or consensus.

Vigo County School Corporation in Indiana has about 35 devices that provide translations in real time, and teachers and administrators find them helpful for communicating with non-English-speaking students and parents.

Educators and technologists alike say the genie is out of the bottle with AI, and understanding the technology will be critical for all students — how it works, potential uses, the ethics around it and what it will do.

A new world of problem-solving tech companies is fast emerging in our time, and today's students have a lot to gain by venturing out of the classroom, whether by field trip or Zoom tour, to see it for themselves.

S.A.F.E., a new software tool from AMSimpkins and Associates in Georgia, is designed to detect and remove fake student applications, recommendation letters and other fraudulent admissions documents generated by AI.

College ought to be a prime opportunity for human connection, something that shouldn't be outsourced to AI. We’re not going to outcompete the robots on efficiency, so let’s get better at being humans.