Digital Transformation

In Washington, Kelso School District is using a series of grants to buy iPads for special education students, subscribe to educational apps and train occupational therapists to use new applications and devices.

With a TK-12 virtual schooling program created to satisfy demand, Newport-Mesa Unified School District gives parents the flexibility to keep students home while staying connected to the district.

According to LearnPlatform's annual report and top-40 list of digital tools used in K-12 classrooms, ed tech use held steady from the last school year, with Google Suite and learner-focused tools remaining dominant.

A Kentucky school district is debating the pandemic-era policy of livestreaming public meetings and showing them on TV, and whether that convenience for the public outweighs technological and equipment challenges.

A Pennsylvania school district is installing phones with emergency buttons that call 911 and send appropriate responders automatically, and requiring students to keep personal electronic devices in their lockers.

The NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars program challenged community college students to design a mission to the moon or Mars, including cost calculation, engineering work and studying the surface.

The university’s Media and Innovation Lab worked with digital mental health company Neolth on a platform that assesses students, then customizes curricula and suggests resources according to their mental health needs.

Recognized at the AWS IMAGINE 2022 event in Seattle earlier this month, the AWS Education Champions’ first cohort includes infrastructure and IT managers, cloud engineers, program directors and administrators.

As Marion County schools prepare to use facial recognition technology for campus security, neighboring school districts might do well to wait and see, given potential issues with parent consent and misidentification.

Colleges and universities across the U.S. are seeing declining enrollment, but digital engagement tools could be part of attracting a generation of digital natives, meeting them where they are, 24/7, in any time zone.

A West Virginia school district will use a new mobile app to share information and alerts with students and families, giving select users the ability to send messages via text or social media with the push of a button.

A North Carolina school district will give money to a local consortium for the design, building and operation of a CBRS/5G wireless network to provide Internet access to homes in designated high-density areas.

Former television news reporter Danny Rubin created an online curriculum of assignments, videos and quizzes focused on writing and speaking, used by more than 100,000 K-12 and college students in 35 states.

Working with ed-tech companies like Full Measure Education, universities are crowdsourcing photos and videos on social media to build virtual campus tours, supplementing information packets that cost thousands to mail.

By offering free home Internet service to low-income families, a Tennessee school district has nearly eliminated racial disparities in parental involvement and opened the door for virtual parent-teacher conferences.

With visible signage and a 30-day warning period, the automated enforcement system from Redspeed International uses cameras and radar to monitor up to 350 cars simultaneously, supposedly accurate within 0.1 mph.

Officials at the University of Texas Permian Basin created a robot with a 360-degree camera that can act as a conduit through which remote students can tune in to lectures and interact with classmates.

Newark has a new student service center through Gateway U, which is not itself an accredited college but gets online faculty, curriculum and other academic resources from the Southern New Hampshire University.