K-12

Dickinson Middle School in North Dakota will host its first-ever Coding Camp for Girls next week, in conjunction with the annual Governor's Summit on Innovative Education to share best practices among school leaders.

As smart devices and classroom technology are increasingly integrated into the daily lives of network users, college and university IT departments must plan for more bandwidth and anytime, anywhere connectivity.

A school district in North Carolina is seeking proposals for a touchless scanner that could automatically detect weapons without requiring visitors to unpack purses or other bags, to be paid for with COVID relief funds.

Research by Human Rights Watch found that many ed-tech platforms have built-in mechanisms to track children’s online behavior for the benefit of advertisers or others, and legal oversight is very limited.

The Center for Data Innovation held a panel discussion Tuesday in which education and AI technology leaders discussed how AI could help K-12 classrooms, centering the role of the teacher as the most pivotal.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield, Mass., presented Chromebooks to kids who participated in a fitness challenge by doing push-ups, running, swimming, biking and other activities. They were donated as part of an AT&T initiative to close the digital divide.

The companies announced the merger last week, combining BoomWriter’s applications for student writing and reading with Walch Education’s cloud-based curriculum management platform and services.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has delayed for two months a new policy that would strictly regulate what district employees could post on social media, following a wave of criticism from staff and the public.

A report by the Center for Democracy & Technology says disabled students, who may need longer bathroom breaks, screen readers or dictation software, are more often flagged as suspicious by remote proctoring AI systems.

Students in grades 6-12 are invited to a one-week program at Mercer County Technical Education Center and Monroe County High School to learn about cyber safety, ethics and critical network security tools and skills.

The 15-week introductory high school course will feature practice labs, student projects and multimedia-driven lessons building upon the nonprofit’s computer programming catalog amid efforts to meet workforce demands.

The nonprofit worked with over 70 companies, education organizations and industry players, as well as state and federal agencies, to create a common language for the research and development of ed-tech innovations.

A forthcoming bill proposed by Democrat Rep. Anthony DeLuca would permit local districts to develop policies on bans, but they would be subject to approval by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Education Service District No. 112 is hosting in-person technical courses across 30 Southwest Washington school districts, where companies come into middle and high school classrooms to teach workplace skills.

Chicago Public Schools say a ransomware attack on tech vendor Battelle for Kids in December compromised the data of 56,000 staff and half a million students, including names, dates of birth, grade level and student ID.

The Federal Trade Commission said companies that collect or share student information without permission for marketing purposes or beyond reasonable necessity could face civil penalties, among other stipulations.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is considering a far-reaching policy to regulate employee use of social media, including rules against defaming the district and accepting current students as followers.

Several state governors met in Boston Thursday to discuss the need for schools to focus on science, technology, engineering and math — particularly computer science — to fill jobs that will otherwise have to be exported.