Digital Transformation

For Earth Day, the educational VR company is offering schools one week of free access to online lessons about deforestation, pollution, the harm that plastics have on marine life, and the importance of recycling.

Through town halls and online surveys, state officials are taking input from educators, students, families and community members to write an ethics statement on the use of AI in the classroom. It’s expected by June.

Several CEOs in the ed-tech space led a webinar Monday at the annual ASU+GSV Summit about the challenges of staying competitive in an increasingly saturated and dynamic market.

As schools and universities make more use of artificial intelligence-driven tools, some ed-tech developers are seeking input from educators and implementing policies related to ethical use and data privacy.

Partnership with ImpactEd for professional development software is the latest step in Montana’s ongoing plan to address low math and reading scores for elementary and middle school students.

Computers and artificial intelligence will help score open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), with "low-confidence" scores to be reassessed by humans.

The Colorado State Board of Education approved an innovation zone to accommodate the Colorado Springs School of Technology, with planned courses in cybersecurity, AI, apps and games, robotics and computers.

The EvolveMe platform from American Student Assistance now includes activities for resume writing, job interviews, writing code professionally, and finding internships, careers and ways to pay for college.

For schools facing a wave of new technology, student habits and teacher shortages, the Oklahoma State School Boards Association helped develop a free guide to creative teaching with digital tools.

VR headsets and 3D printers help the Verizon Innovation Learning Lab create interest in STEM at the Dorothy Height Charter School. Educators and school leaders toured it during the National School Boards Association Annual Conference.

Institutions like the University of Maryland Global Campus, Grayson College and Western Governors University are using a variety of tech tools to maintain student engagement — a key challenge in online learning.

From language-learning tools to deepfakes, the use of AI for translation is coinciding with a drop in enrollment in foreign-language classes. But what we gain in efficiency, we could lose in understanding.

Data and anecdotes alike have shown excessive use of smartphones and social media are negatively impacting students' social-emotional skills. Many school districts are implementing programs to counter this.

Starting in the 2024-2025 academic year, tuition-free remote instruction will be available in grades K-12 across Pennsylvania, grades K-10 in Southern California, and K-11 at Louisiana R-II School District in Missouri.

The grand prize winner in Teach for America's fourth annual EduPitch contest this week was Playground IEP, a special education software that streamlines case-management tasks to reduce workload for overwhelmed staff.

Starting in 2025, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will include problem-solving tasks that will be at least partially scored by AI, potentially demonstrating a new use case for the technology.

In a virtual panel hosted by e.Republic, the Center for Digital Education’s parent company, ed-tech leaders shared thoughts and advice on AI, cybersecurity, the looming fiscal cliff and the importance of collaboration.

The digital education company Edmentum will add curriculum materials from the nonprofit America Succeeds to its career and technical education courses to help students build “soft skills” like critical thinking and creativity.