K-12

The second annual report on education technology trends by the State Educational Technology Directors Association notes that the emergence of ChatGPT has given state education leaders new problems to worry about.

Education is poised for a new chapter as generative AI is introduced in classrooms, and while that comes with a healthy amount of concern, it also offers new possibilities that we're only just beginning to uncover.

A survey by Intelligent.com found that about 66 percent of educators are requiring assignments to be handwritten, typed in class without WiFi, or complemented by oral assessments so that students won't rely on ChatGPT.

Having levied a local sales tax to buy more than 31,000 Chromebooks, a school district in Georgia has deployed the GoGuardian app to allow parents to monitor the devices, filter content and control when they're used.

Delivery Associates, an international consulting firm, launched the Community Funding Accelerator pilot program to match K-12 districts with federal grants and guide them through the application process.

Sacramento City Unified School District has implemented a policy barring students from using generative artificial intelligence for homework or research without a teacher's approval.

Schools will administer the new digital version of the SAT exam in March, and parents are already concerned about the change, in some cases recommending that their kids take the test this fall or skip it altogether.

A recent survey from the digital learning platform Clever found that most teachers and administrators want more tech support for students with disabilities or Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Student coaches with AmeriCorps’ City Year program will have access to digital tools and an online dashboard from the education software company Curriculum Associates to aid struggling students in grades three to five.

Through a government program called Community Eligibility Provision, a school district in Indiana is providing student families with access to tablets and a monthly Internet service even during the summer.

More than a dozen K-12 school districts in Texas will receive more than $10 million, while the largest allotment is $33.7 million.

Recently addressing the disruption ChatGPT and other tools have brought to global education, the international cooperative agency recommends new laws and regulations, training and forward-thinking public debate.

With online resources being increasingly necessary for school work, a nation-wide T-Mobile program is offering free Internet connectivity and mobile hotspots to up to 10 million eligible K-12 student households.

Among organizations that reported data leaks since 2019, 56 percent were private companies, and research found small organizations that employed less than 50 workers were more likely to lose client data.

A Pennsylvania STEM advocacy group gave three grants to an area school district and two businesses, to build out a robotics lab at Millersville University and other local job-shadowing and industry-education programs.

Finding that students had become exceptionally reliant on cell phones while locked down during COVID-19, a Massachusetts school district now requires them to store phones in magnetically sealed pouches during the day.

A Colorado school district's new career and technical education center allows students to earn post-secondary credits and certifications in fields such as information technology and cybersecurity.

Experts say communities across the U.S. have made significant progress in efforts to expand Internet access, largely through private-public partnerships and localized initiatives to make broadband affordable to families.