Digital Transformation

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.

The private Catholic institution is in the process of developing and equipping an esports facility on campus, to train students to play video games competitively against other colleges and at the national level.

A school district in Odessa, Texas, has adopted a highly structured virtual tutoring program that connects students with instructional support from other parts of the country and pays the contractor based on results.

An annual report from the language learning app Preply says the user base for its online program is three times what it was before the pandemic. The company’s CEO expects the popularity of e-learning to sustain.

School districts in Northern Indiana are using online or blended learning options, learning management systems, smaller class sizes, new curriculum maps and targeted interventions to make up for recent learning loss.

A report from a U.K.-based research firm projects the e-learning market for U.S. colleges and universities will grow by 20 percent annually as it focuses on product development, partnerships and skill-building programs.

A Washington, D.C., nonprofit is promoting a new approach to K-12 that replaces the old “factory model,” one-size-fits-all schooling with prerecorded lectures, small-group lessons and mastery-based testing.

An editorial co-written by the mayor of Miami and a former governor of Florida praises work by the city and Miami Dade College to launch a tech-focused charter school amid the burgeoning tech industry there.

Gary Community School Corp. is working with local partners to put free Wi-Fi in six city parks, increase broadband subscriptions, attract e-commerce and provide technology training for seniors.

The Chicago-based ed tech company is expanding its database of how-to guides, white papers, videos and other multimedia resources to help college and university faculty build hybrid and online courses.