• zSpace Expands CTE Offerings with Auto Training Program

  zSpace, a Silicon Valley-based mixed reality education company, unveiled at ISTE new additions to its career and technology education (CTE) applications. The interactive GTA Virtual Automotive Training courses use zSpace’s mixed reality environment to give students hands-on experience with all the essentials of auto mechanics.

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• 11,000 Girls Compete in International Mobile App Challenge

  Girls from all over the United States and the world are competing in the Technovation Challenge, a global effort by STEM education nonprofit Iridescent, which has invited girls ages 10-18 to learn and apply technology to try to solve problems in their communities. This year, 11,000 girls worked in teams of one to five to build mobile applications and address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which include quality education and poverty elimination.

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• A Thumbs Up to Open Up for Delivering Free, Curriculum-Scale OER

  In 2017, OER (Open Education Resources) are undergoing a major transformation: rather than educators needing to struggle with searching OER repositories containing millions of OER objects and then trying to stitch together those OER objects into coherent lessons, organizations such as Open Up Resources are producing curriculum-scale, OER-based courses. Finally, OER is coming of age!

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• Veative Launches Educational VR Headset with Interactive Controller

  VR Learn currently offers more than 500 content modules in biology, chemistry, physics and math. The company expects to bring the number of available modules to 700 by mid-2017 and 1,100 by the end of the year.

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• Kahoot Unveils App for Game-Based Homework

  Kahoot is a free game-based learning platform that allows teachers to create their own learning games, dubbed Kahoots, or use existing games created by other teachers. In the classroom, games can be displayed on a shared screen to encourage students to work together. Students can also create their own Kahoots to deepen their understanding.

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• Pai Technology Unveils Coding Robot at ISTE

  Pai Technology, a Chinese ed tech company with a Santa Monica, CA office, introduced at the ISTE 2017 conference its newest product, Augie, a robot that teaches kids to code and combines that with augmented reality.

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• Report: 2 in 3 Parents Say Classroom Tech Is Key to Student Futures

  Tech leaders say motivating teachers is the biggest hurdle, according to a new report.

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• Report: Device Shipments to Remain Mostly Static in 2017, Despite Lagging PC Sales

  Global device shipments will decline 0.3 percent in 2017 as compared to the previous year, before rebounding with a 1.8 percent increase in 2018, according to a new forecast.

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• Parrot Education Expands Drone Program Worldwide

  The program supports the adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles (also known as drones) in classrooms, labs and field work.

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• Vernier Providing Educators with Resources for Gathering Data During Solar Eclipse

  Oregon-based Vernier Software & Technology is providing tips and resources for viewing the “Great American Eclipse,” Aug. 21, 2017, and the scientific data-collection company is urging educators to collect and share data from the event.

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• 7 Digital Learning Trends

  Project Tomorrow surveyed more than 514,000 educators, parents and students between October 2016 and January 2017 for this year's report.

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• SchoolMessenger App Adds Attendance and Student Data Options

  West Corp., the maker of SchoolMessenger software suite, has released a new mobile and web app designed to streamline communication between school and home. It replaces the previous InfoCenter app, while adding functionality.

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