Despite concerns, cloud transitions can improve student data security

While security questions have been central to decisions around moving educational services to the cloud, the right protections can mean increased security for personal data.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 28, 2016

Open admission STEM high schools increasingly popular to expand access

The first generation of science and technology high schools generally required students to test into them, but a new wave of schools aims to meet the broad demand for STEM skills.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 28, 2016

Explore the Trendline➔

Cybersecurity in K-12 Education

From the growing and persistent threat of ransomware attacks to concerns about vendors’ practices, schools have become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks amid digital transitions.

By K-12 Dive staff

Indiana school learns from initial individualized learning plan missteps

Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township developed working personalized learning plans for high school students in a blended program, learning from initial setbacks.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 28, 2016

Being a global educator takes more than a virtual field trip

The internet makes international connections possible for students in even the most remote areas of the country, but the best global teachers go beyond lone virtual trips or one-time video chats.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 27, 2016

Pennsylvania teachers provide flipped examples across grade levels

While their subjects, strategies and grade levels are different, all three teachers have used the model to facilitate personalized learning opportunities.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 27, 2016

Augmented and virtual reality can increase engagement in schools

Pokémon Go gave teachers and administrators everywhere a deeper understanding of augmented reality, but lesson plans don’t have to include any mention of the game to get students engaged.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 26, 2016

Video conferencing helps schools improve training, collaboration opportunities

Connecting teachers and administrators with their colleagues elsewhere via video conference can save time and money, increase collaboration and lead to new ideas for student learning, too.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 26, 2016

South Carolina district strategic about 1:1 rollout

District 5 Schools of Spartanburg County focused on professional development and stakeholder buy-in as they implemented a 1:1 initiative with Dell laptops over the last three years.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 23, 2016

Helping students think critically about online resources

Teaching digital literacy to students must include critical thinking skills that allow them to discern whether information on any given site is trustworthy.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 23, 2016

Census Bureau upgrades free K-12 statistics resources

The Statistics in Schools program now has hundreds of new activities and resources for teachers and students across five subjects.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 22, 2016

More districts turning to self-created, online curriculum resources

Some districts have found creating their own resources can better serve students than purchasing textbooks, and others are turning to free or low-cost options online.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 22, 2016

Education faces highest ransomware attack rate of any industry

An analysis by BitSight found 10% of education institutions had been attacked with malware, with just 6% of government entities and 3.5% of healthcare organizations reporting the same.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 22, 2016

As schools move to the cloud, top drivers are instruction-related

Schools now deliver two-thirds of their IT solutions either fully or in part through the cloud, and while infrastructure has been moved, two top drivers of cloud use are in the classroom.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 21, 2016

Minnesota school adopts Pokemon Go concept for new student tours

Visitors to Greenwood Elementary School can search for about a dozen eggs hidden throughout the building in augmented reality, using their phones to free the animals inside.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 20, 2016

What should STEM ed look like in 10 years?

The American Institutes for Research's STEM 2026 report for the US Department of Education’s STEM Initiatives Team lays out six interconnected components.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 20, 2016

Tech success requires rising above organizational silos

CDW-G education strategist Eric Patnoudes writes for Ed Tech Magazine that IT departments are often walled off from the curriculum and district leaders from whom they have to win buy-in.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 19, 2016

Colorado school connects students with peers worldwide

A library technology educator at Fountain Valley School in Colorado created Mystery Skype to let students from two classrooms in different parts of the world ask each other questions to deduce their locations.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 19, 2016

Literacy, CIOs and teacher evals: The week's most-read education news

Stay ahead of the class with the latest on the cost of campus carry, a new survey detailing educators' tech dislikes and more.

By Roger Riddell • Sept. 16, 2016

10 high schools receive $100M for rethinking traditional model

The $100 million was awarded to a variety of charter and public schools by the XQ Institute, with funding from Laurene Powell Jobs.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 16, 2016

Power of computer science push in computational thinking, not coding

Stanford University computer science professor Mehran Sahami writes that initiatives to offer the subject to all high schoolers are about much more than filling a skills gap in the economy.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 16, 2016

Los Angeles magnet school offers robotics specialty courses

The Mulholland Robotics Middle School, perhaps the first of its kind, shares space with the traditional Mulholland school, which had seen dropping enrollment over the last decade.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 15, 2016

Microsoft Classroom debuts Forms, improves OneNote, adds virtual field trips

Microsoft Classroom, which competes with Google Classroom as a hub of ed tech tools, used educator feedback as it updated a handful of programs for the start of the school year.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 15, 2016

New Horizon Report identifies ed tech trends, challenges

The annual report highlights short-, mid- and longterm trends, as well as challenges across a range of difficulty levels, and developments with adoption timelines of one to five years.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 15, 2016

Southern Regional Ed Board report offers data security guidelines

A multi-pronged approach to data protection should include steady monitoring, training of those who collect and use data, technical support from IT staffs and transparency with the public.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 14, 2016

Twitter, Instagram and Periscope offer concrete classroom benefits

Enterprising teachers can use these social media platforms to engage students, parents and the community.

By Tara García Mathewson • Sept. 14, 2016