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Bend-La Pine Schools in Oregon is reviewing ed-tech programs, creating a website page for ed tech for transparency, ensuring tech for grades K-2 is developmentally appropriate, and looking at device privacy and security. -
Technology’s ability to collect information and AI’s capacity to analyze it are helping mobilize smarter and more connected cities, transportation officials said recently.
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A draft plan being considered by Los Angeles Unified School District would ban screens for kindergarten and first grade students, and enforce screen time limits for higher grades later this year and next.
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California law requires schools to adopt policies restricting cellphone use during the day, but a new bill proposes requiring bell-to-bell policies for K-8 and ensuring those students don't need phones to do their work.
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As a result of feedback from students and parents, Simons Middle School in Fleming County, Ky., is not doing away with Chromebooks altogether but more deliberately limiting their use starting this fall.
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School board members at Greater Albany Public Schools in Oregon say the district's first year without smartphones yielded positive comments from teachers, parents and students, and major issues did not materialize.
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More than three quarters of parents surveyed by the activist group PA Unplugged expressed concern about how much screen time students have and how school-issued devices are used, and districts are responding.
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Despite Gov. Ned Lamont's support and the bill's passage in the state House of Representatives, legislation to ban cellphones from schools met opposition from senators who favored leaving the issue to local districts.
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Researchers looked at more than 40,500 schools between 2019 and 2026 and found phone bans improved self-reported well-being among students by a far larger magnitude than a prior study found from deactivating Facebook.
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An app installed on school-issued Chromebooks from Lexington-Richland 5 will allow parents to not only monitor use history, but see how the Chromebook is being used in real time.
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Starting next week, Seattle will bar elementary and middle school students from using cellphones during the school day, and older students won't be able to have them in class.
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If the Senate passes it, Connecticut's new law will not ban cellphones on school buses, and local districts will decide if phones can be used during after-school activities and what the discipline policies should be.
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After years of rapid ed-tech expansion accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning, many teachers and parents think early education is entering a moment of reckoning.
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Los Angeles Unified School District this week is expected to pass a resolution keeping students off screens until second grade and requiring schools to produce itemized contracts related to classroom technology.
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Many states are implementing new laws and policies to curb screen time in classrooms, but some experts say blanket bans and rigid mandates fail to account for unique circumstances in individual classrooms.
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Illinois is one of eight states that have yet to pass restrictions on cellphone use in public schools, but that may change with a recently amended bill that has support from Democrats, Republicans and the governor.
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A group of child safety organizations faulted Washington state for being too lax on smartphone use at school, as state law merely requires districts to enact policies tailored to their community’s needs by 2030.
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At the Consortium for School Networking conference this week, panelists argued that the screen time debate must shift focus from how much time students spend on screens to how that time is being spent.
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The endeavor, which will wrap later this spring, attaches sensors to vehicles to measure pollutant levels, providing new data for policymakers and residents. It is intended to help shape emission reduction plans.
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North East Independent School District in Texas may soon be monitored by a conservator after a state investigation determined that district leaders did not create a bell-to-bell phone ban in compliance with state law.
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The state Department of Education asked for $17.6 million to educate students about the impact smartphones, screens and social media, and it's launching a survey to learn how districts handle technology in the classroom.
