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A new report from SETDA examines how policy makers and school leaders can work to bridge the digital divide and establish ways to provide schools with the necessary resources to get high-speed internet connections.
11/06/2019
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A select group of principals received nearly 200 hours of professional development training over a two-year period through a program at the University of Washington, but a study conducted by ED’s Institute of Education Sciences found the program did not affect student achievement.
11/06/2019
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The robotics company has announced the commercial launch of RVR, a customizable robot that teaches students how to code.
11/06/2019
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The project-based learning company’s new offering will train principals and their school leadership teams on how to implement project-based learning projects.
11/05/2019
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Florida State University is working with SoapBox Labs to test how the company's speech recognition technology could help educators assess student reading and language skills.
11/05/2019
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced his Computer Science for All State Plan to help schools statewide create “advanced, high-quality” computer science programs.
11/05/2019
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Adobe's suite of creation programs has been given a major ladling of updates in time for the company's annual user conference. Today, at Adobe MAX, Adobe showed new functionality for Creative Cloud.
11/04/2019
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VEX Robotics is launching a professional development program to train teachers on how to use the company’s robotics products.
11/04/2019
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The assessment provider’s new solution gives educators insights into student proficiencies in English language arts and mathematics through adaptive, through-year assessment that provides summative scores for teachers.
11/04/2019
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
11/04/2019
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How will changes in human computer interfaces, e.g., incorporation of augmented reality/virtual reality, impact educational technology and the learning experience? Good question! In this week’s blogpost we provide an answer to that good question produced by the 10 members of "Technological Working Group 1" at the EduSummIT 2019 Conference held in Quebec City, October, 2019.
11/04/2019
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The nonprofit Kapor Center is launching the Rising STEM Scholars Initiative to provide low income students and students of color opportunities to take AP courses in math, science and computer science.
11/01/2019
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A study of data available from various security incident-tracking resources found that there have been 301 reported cybersecurity attacks against schools so far this year, compared to just 124 in 2018.
11/01/2019
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Teachers who encourage their students to become more creative with online tools can promote more student engagement, according to a new report from Gallup.
10/31/2019
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The vast wealth of data that is the "Nation's Report Card" showed that average math scores stayed steady across states for fourth and eighth graders in this year's round of testing by the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) compared to scores in 2017.
10/30/2019
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A new survey from Common Sense finds young people are watching twice as many online videos every day than they did four years ago.
10/30/2019
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More educators want to be trained on how to incorporate technology into their daily teaching practices, but a new report from Project Tomorrow shows that they are concerned how their students will be able to access those tools outside the classroom
10/30/2019
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The KIBO Home Robotics Course gives home educators and caregivers a new way to introduce coding and robotics to young children without using computers or screen time.
10/30/2019