Education

An incubator space in Emporia, Kans., will host classes and activities for kindergarten through sixth grade, collaborating with local districts to build programs in robotics, engineering, web design and other subjects.

Veteran esports leaders on Tuesday at the ISTELive 22 annual conference explained the myriad benefits of those programs, from promoting social-emotional well-being to laying the groundwork for technical careers.

Seeing a problem with keeping computers organized when they're turned in to teachers, an Ohio school district will assign students one device to keep for fifth through eighth, and then ninth through 12th grade.

A program being developed by Sutter County Probations Office in California will partner with middle schools to teach life skills in the digital age, addressing topics like digital footprints and cyber bullying.

The Idaho college's new $27 million facility left its duct work and HVAC intentionally exposed so students could see it. It will house programs such as IT, engineering, industrial electronics and auto mechanics.

Developers of the newly updated website say it will provide more transparency on how the state’s school districts are spending COVID-19 relief funds, and eventually how it relates to student outcomes.

A Monday panel at the ISTELive 22 Conference in New Orleans revealed how a coalition with the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools is assessing ed-tech products and systems.

Kimberly Carlson, an innovation specialist at Lakota Local School District in Ohio, was named one of America's "20 Teachers To Watch" by ISTE for modernizing classrooms, such as with free laptops and a Cyber Academy.

A Texas school district this fall will implement the Raptor Alert System, which comes with a downloadable app that synchronizes responding entities with a website that manages the flow of K-12 district information.

Some teacher preparation programs aren't keeping pace with technological changes in schools, neglecting to train new teachers for modern classrooms, 1-to-1 computing environments, popular devices and software tools.

Students and administrators say digital streaming platforms, referrals and college recruitment test tournaments have made organized video game competitions among the fastest-growing extracurriculars in Iowa.

A cyber attack against the California public community college two weeks ago blocked access to network systems or took them offline. Administrators say they're approaching full recovery but aren't there yet.

A pivot to online tools over the past two years helped an Irving, Calif.-based company that allows entrepreneurs to build and sell educational content to increase its annual revenue by 250 percent.

The university’s new course, with scholarships from Draganfly, offers an introduction to unmanned aerial vehicles, regulations, operation and navigation, and a chance to earn a remote pilot certification.

Based on student interest and largely paid for by ESSER funds, the Pennsylvania district's new school will accommodate up to 1,000 students, potentially alleviating overcrowding at another school.

The New York City Department of Education's "A School Without Walls" program includes a hybrid option which blends in-person and remote learning, and a virtual option with daily synchronous lessons in STEM or humanities.

North Central Texas College this week hosted Go for IT!, a free, four-day camp to introduce middle schoolers to IT career possibilities in coding, 3-D printing, cybersecurity, drones and other fields.

With more students looking to fast-track technical job training programs to gain in-demand IT skills, states like Oregon and Colorado have placed more focus on workforce development programming.