Digital Transformation

Parents are reacting to a plan by Homewood Elementary School District 153 to disable Internet access between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on devices issued to children in elementary and middle schools.

The ed tech company’s new Vernier Connections, a platform for high school teachers with hands-on investigations and projects, aims to better students’ critical thinking skills and collaborative efforts to solve problems.

Nine historically Black colleges and universities are piloting a shared digital learning platform that allows students across different institutions to engage with each other and take courses online.

Universities are looking to expand courses hosting asynchronous and synchronous lectures both online and in person to meet student demands for flexible schedules in a post-pandemic landscape.

In the past week, partnerships have been formed to tackle the ongoing mental health crisis in schools. Software companies Xello and Intellispark have connected, as well as the U.K.'s SMART Technologies and Kooth.

The global software company’s classroom management tool aims to help teachers keep students focused by monitoring classroom devices, controlling student browser activity and sharing and broadcasting presentations.

The online division of a Vermont college is working with InSpace Proximity to make the campus experience more accessible to virtual students with tools for networking and collaboration, and new courses on the way.

Teachers had little to no training when schools across the state made the emergency switch to remote instruction during COVID-19, and what followed was learning loss and problems with student behavior and mental health.

The university's new vice president for research and economic development sees artificial intelligence as foundational to many fields and wants it to be incorporated into both research and basic studies.

South Middleton School District is debating whether or not to mandate its $20 user fee for laptops and other school-issued devices for all students and grade levels, because at present, it's not enough to cover costs.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling and the College Guidance Network are teaming up to offer online content designed to help school counselors guide students through the college application process.

Partnering with Washington’s Bellevue School District on a two-week pilot program, the ed-tech company successfully prepared teachers to incorporate coding into core subjects after one day of training.

Schuylkill Valley School District in Pennsylvania wants to transfer assignments stored on Google Drive to Microsoft's OneDrive, and teachers are concerned about compatibility issues and losing information.

Teachers want to play a major role in decisions about classroom technology, and over 90 percent of them expect to continue using tools they adopted for online and hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kognity for NGSS aims to give teachers a framework for designing interactive science lessons involving simulations, videos and 3D models to engage students and prompt discussions that connect different disciplines.

The annual two-day summit will convene education and technology leaders to discuss workforce training, online education programs, the need for more school funding and the potential for technology to improve workplaces.

The Washington, D.C., academy was founded with a focus on computer science education and equitable access to technology, achieving a 50-50 boys-to-girls ratio in computer science before the disruptions of COVID-19.

The university's dining provider has partnered with the San Francisco-based Starship Technologies to use six-wheeled robots for delivering food and drinks within a four-mile radius of a central restaurant area.