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Amid growing scrutiny of ed tech, a webinar this week asked education leaders to consider how AI and other digital tools can remove barriers to course content and help teachers accomplish instructional goals.
An international Hexagon study of 18,000 people finds children are more open than adults to robots as learning partners, workplace colleagues and even bosses Hexagon’s international study surveyed 9,000 children and 9,000 adults about…
Researchers surveyed teens and adults on how well school cellphone policies were enforced over the course of a school year.
A new report from Harvard's Center for Digital Thriving found that some teens feel growing pressure to use AI to keep up with peers, yet they're deliberately underperforming on work so as not to be accused of using AI.
This study is four years overdue.
FETC unveils an agenda for human leadership in the age of AI. GUEST COLUMN | by Jennifer Womble These are extraordinary times in education. Artificial intelligence can generate a lesson, summarize a report and analyze a mountain of…
Some parents are organizing campaigns to opt their kids out of classroom tech. Others are suing education software companies. But there may be a quieter majority: Parents who support some screen time in schools.
The free in-person program will cover lesson planning, assessment, administrative tasks and responsible AI use, with stops confirmed in Leeds, Coventry, Newcastle, Bristol, Nottingham and Portsmouth Google for Education’s Gemini…
In this episode of This Week with EdSurge, two former educators explain why it is so important to verify the efficacy of the tools that schools bring ...
As school districts move from early experimentation with AI toward questions of governance, security and trust, they need practical guidance about when an application requires IT review and how to recognize red flags.
After a yearlong Los Angeles County pilot reported improvements in confidence and preparedness for educators teaching computer science, the nonprofit behind the program secured additional Google.org funding to expand.
The families with the most resources are buying more human support, not less. GUEST COLUMN | by Alicia Kacharia There is a lot of excitement about how, for the first time, every student can access a personalized tutor regardless of…
More than a week after district officials discovered a cybersecurity incident on the network, Spokane Public Schools have recovered PowerSchool, payroll and some other systems affected by the unspecified issue.
Fueled by factors such as chronic absenteeism and pandemic learning challenges, students’ reading scores have been trending downward for years. A biennial National Assessment of Education Progress test found that approximately a third…
As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover…
AI has reached nearly every corner of education, though students, teachers, and leaders all experience it from a different angle
Every good roadmap starts with one important piece of information: You are here. The same is true for cybersecurity readiness. Before we can determine where we need to go next,…
In this episode, I chat with Sela Estelle, an educator and designer who helps teachers create classroom resources with design in mind, about designing resources for students. You’ll also hear why the quality of your design has to match…
This story was produced by The Texas Tribune and republished with permission. HOUSTON — Fonville Middle School hired learning coaches to help students falling behind in the classroom. It bought new state-of-the-art technology, such as…
Feedback from thousands of Advanced Placement teachers is informing new lessons in AP Computer Science Principles and new limits on when artificial intelligence can be used in AP Seminar.
The AI company used its UNGA-week briefing in New York to detail education projects spanning teacher support in Ghana, public schools in Brazil and curriculum infrastructure in Nigeria, Rwanda and India Anthropic outlined education uses…
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is looking to strengthen the cybersecurity posture of public schools with more than $6 million of initiatives over two years.
When schools talk about students using artificial intelligence, the conversation often begins with assignments. Are students using AI to brainstorm, summarize or complete work they should be doing themselves? Those questions matter, but…
A school district in New York has invested $188,000 in Tyler Drive, which will require students to swipe ID cards when they get on the bus. Software then designs a custom route for students riding the bus that day.
Digital devices used for K–12 learning have traditionally provided access to productivity software, research and digital assignments. But now, artificial intelligence technology is enabling devices to generate instructional material,…
Tech & Learning Q&A: Digital Promise And The Edtech Procurement Framework
For nearly three decades, E-Rate has helped school districts build and sustain the network infrastructure that supports teaching, learning, safety, and the many systems educators rely on every day.
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
Takeaways from table discussions from the most recent Texas Regional Leadership Summit
The research experiment generates game-like learning interactives around teacher-approved objectives, with a public library of more than 30 activities and a wider school pilot planned Google Research’s Learning Interactives experiment…
Teacher Tapp data from England shows 34% of secondary teachers saw students using banned phones in the past week, while the share of schools collecting devices or using pouches and lockers has risen sharply Teacher Tapp data from…
New York City students returned to public school in September facing a one-year moratorium on using generative artificial intelligence, including chatbots and tutors, in grades 2K through 8, as well as restrictions on screen time: none…
In a webinar this week hosted by FETC, panelists noted that the persistent memory that could make artificial intelligence genuinely useful for education also creates privacy and governance risks.
An AI safety expert and former educator spoke at a UN meeting about AI safety. This is what she said.
While classroom technology is nearly universal, educators are navigating a growing disconnect between how digital tools are mandated and how they actually function, according to Teaching for Tomorrow: Screen Wise, a new report from the…
A recent roundtable discussion from Tech & Learning’s Texas regional leadership summit.
Purdue University and LEGO Education’s professional development program combines classroom-ready activities with online videos exploring AI competency, robotics and students’ future readiness Indiana STEM educators took part in Purdue…
A Missouri district is looking for data dashboards, while a Washington school system seeks a development partner for an AI tool.
A year after lawmakers assigned a task force to study the effects of screen time in elementary school, the group is recommending a minimization of “nonessential” technology use and limits on gaming and social media.
Voice-first AI tutoring platform Aristotle has also raised $5 million in seed funding.
A year after Texas lawmakers enacted a statewide ban on cellphones in schools, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a recent campaign stop at Del Mar College that he thought technology should only be used for specific lessons.
Unsettling news stories about AI in the media may prompt school leaders to take a harder look at ed-tech tools that incorporate the technology, learn more about it and be deliberate in their approach.
The nation’s broadest restriction may buy educators time—but only teacher literacy can provide a durable path forward. GUEST COLUMN | by Sohan Choudhury On September 2, Mayor Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing…
Microsoft Learning Zone uses AI to help educators teach with interactive lessons.
The two largest school districts in the U.S. restricted student access to generative AI. Other education leaders are weighing age, instructional purpose and evidence as they draw their own boundaries.
While they still give students personal devices to take home, some schools in Harford County, Md., are disabling the devices from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day this school year in an effort to curb screen time.
Following similar policies at other school districts across the U.S., an Arizona school district set screen-time limits for grades K-2 at an average of 20 minutes a day and a maximum of 30 minutes.
Building a drone fleet for a K–12 education program isn’t a one-time purchase. Rather, it’s a multiyear investment, and the funding source used to pay for it carries compliance consequences. Selecting drones requires balancing…
Integrated directly into Abre’s Data Intelligence Platform, Vera delivers real-time, role-aware answers to plain-language questions without compromising student privacy or ... Read more
MIT’s Justin Reich weighs in on the current techlash, problems with edtech coverage he sees, and inaccurate paraphrasing of his views.
Emma Thom, is a special needs teacher at Likuni Primary School in Malawi, and she begins her day in a small resource centre at Likuni Girls Primary School in Malawi.... The post Reimagining Inclusive Education in Malawi Through EdTech…
Like many parents, Arielle Roth has concerns about her children’s screen time at school. But unlike her peers, she’s in a position to influence the issue at nearly every school in America. Roth heads an obscure federal agency within the…
A K–12 HR leader’s honest take on AI in the hiring process. GUEST COLUMN | by Jennifer Duvall Not long ago, hiring a teacher meant posting a job, collecting applications, reading through stacks of resumes, calling references, and…
A former champion of the ed-tech movement shares his concerns about this new school model.
Multistate partnership, with ties to Carnegie Mellon University, to build sustainable AI education pathways A14Middle Schools is extending its reach into more states A growing multistate partnership with strong ties to Carnegie Mellon…
The true metric of AI in school leadership is not time saved, but the presence and clarity restored to daily decision-making.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has sharply limited the use of cellphones and screens in schools. The measures will go into effect in November.
Students are testing and learning about artificial intelligence through Pennsylvania Creates, a joint project of several education and tech organizations designed to help develop AI models ethically.
Panic-inducing AI headlines might prompt schools to hit pause and review the tech more carefully.
Just south of Seattle, Highline Public Schools serves an area of rich cultural diversity — for example, its 17,290 students speak nearly 90 different languages. For Teshon Christie, that’s an opportunity to tailor support to every…