Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as technology in the classroom is ...
Raleigh News & Observer

Wake can’t continue to afford computers for every student. What could change

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Wake will study keeping elementary school Chromebooks on campus to cut device costs. District may expand BYOD for high schools and ...
Edutopia

Teaching Elementary Students Computational Thinking in the Age of AI

Lessons on digital citizenship, coding, debugging code, prompting AI, and analyzing AI outputs help students develop valuable ...
Phys.org

Students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers—does this need to change?

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. This is a huge change for schools when it comes to teaching writing. For students, learning ...
Sun Sentinel

Broward schools to issue laptops to students for first time since COVID hit

Cellphones may be out, but laptops are back in at Broward County schools. The school district plans to issue every student a laptop computer when they return to school on Aug. 11. They’ll be able to ...
The Digital Universe

New BYU computer science study shows four ways students are actually using ChatGPT

Thousands of students are doubtless relying on ChatGPT to prepare for finals this time of year. Instructors less initiated into this ever-evolving, new AI tool might be curious — what exactly are ...
WRAL

There's no money to replace most of NC students' laptops. What are schools doing about it?

Most North Carolina public schools say they don’t have the money to replace laptops issued to students in recent years — a scenario that could leave hundreds of thousands students without computers if ...
The Jewish Exponent

Remember When: Philadelphia Torah Academy Students Start Using Computers

The rapid advancement of technology is a continuous marvel of modern society, most recently seen with the rise of AI and its incorporation into several major areas of everyday life. But just 40 years ...
AZ Central

Microsoft, Future Farmers of America kits helps students learn about agricultural tech

Arizona agriculture students are using the FarmBeats for Students program to learn about data gathering in farming. The program, developed by Microsoft with Future Farmers of America, uses low-cost ...
The Daily Free Press

Students increasingly own several computers

As Boston-area students grow increasingly dependent on the internet, they are using multiple computers to fit their needs in their classrooms and dormitories, which pose difficulties for campus ...
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Australian students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers – does this need to change?

Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. This is a huge change for schools when it comes to teaching writing. For students, learning ...