Digital Transformation

With the help of matching funds from the federal E-Rate program, the Pennsylvania district is spending more than $180,000 to upgrade its eight-year-old network with 78 wireless access points and 12 switches.

There are about 23,500 students in summer school between Tucson's nine major school districts this year, engaged in hands-on and personalized learning to make up for what was lost over months of remote instruction.

The global shortage of microprocessors is prompting several Georgia school districts to strategize and assess their inventories of laptops, which will remain important educational tools even as in-person classes resume.

The West Virginia school district started issuing the laptops about five years ago, but since they became a staple of daily instruction during the pandemic, training sessions have helped teachers learn to use them.

With help from a data analytics company, Duval County Public Schools used metrics like attendance, discipline reports and test scores to flag at-risk students and increase graduation rates by over 25 percent in 10 years.

The university joined others in New York, Utah and North Carolina as part of the National Science Foundation's research of new wireless devices, protocols and applications to improve broadband connectivity.

A student-driven nonprofit is preparing an "InspirEd Hacks" event with workshops on data science, machine learning, educational technology, game design and virtual and augmented reality.

The Mississippi school district will put $4.2 million in coronavirus relief funds toward technology infrastructure such as laptops, servers, Internet access points, an upgraded content filter and other equipment.

The School District of La Crosse is installing nearly 300 81kW solar panels on the building, paid for by grants and donations, which may lend themselves to science instruction around renewable energy while saving money.

The play is a collaboration between students of design, computer science and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory in Chicago, along with theater director Jo Cattell and professional actors from the Goodman Theatre.

Recognizing that technology necessary for academic success is still too expensive for some students, Capital University in Columbus intends to provide iPads for each of its 2,600 students and staff.

A survey by the ed-tech company Instructure found parents and teachers are confident about tech-driven educational methods and tools, but concerns about digital equity and the efficacy of standardized testing remain.

Politically powerful AT&T, a very generous contributor to legislators' campaign kitties, opposes the governor's plan. So does the cable TV industry. They object to the state creating competitors.

Recognizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student mental health, Philadelphia-area organizations and app developers created apps to help high school and college students cope with stressors.

Xavier University in New Orleans is one of 10 HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities) to receive a $5 million grant from the tech giant for scholarships, hardware and other investments.

By integrating with course catalog software, its second acquisition this year, the learner engagement platform intends to make it easier for college students to plan and personalize their courses.

The tech company partnered with schools in Colorado and Texas during the pandemic to expand Internet access needed for virtual learning, a main concern of educators during the public health crisis.

The Center for Education Reform is raising funds to update edmaven.com, a social networking platform designed to connect ed-tech developers with the capital and tech teams needed to create new digital learning tools.