Evergreen Public Schools hosted its first Game Design Expo in Vancouver, Washington, showcasing more than 50 video games and interactive apps developed by nearly 70 high school students. Throughout a semester-long design class, students created mini-games to learn the cause-and-effect logic behind programming. Producing a story, game or interactive app for the expo motivated the […]
A flexible plastic box printed from a school’s 3D printer could hold the answer to keeping first responders safe from exposed needles in the midst of an opioid epidemic that has affected communities nationwide. Over the course of four months, a group of design/modeling students at Ashland Middle School in Kentucky created the needle retriever […]
Up-to-date school floor plans and detailed images can be the difference between life and death when first responders are racing against time to find a shooting suspect or to rescue survivors after a natural disaster. Anaheim High School in California stands at the forefront of the effort to digitally map schools. CIO News: Edtech trends […]
Project Unicorn does not leave data interoperability to the imagination. The InnovateEdu initiative, which has grown from 25 districts to over 400 in just the past year, compels edtech companies to create compatible software that can share data. The New York-based nonprofit also has recently partnered with nearly three dozen edtech companies that have pledged […]
City students from both coasts have donned headsets to take virtual field trips wherein they learn about the humane treatment of farm animals on a rural sanctuary in upstate New York. Farm Sanctuary provides schools in in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California with 20 VR headsets. CIO News: Staying healthy in virtual […]
Jeremy Bailenson, head of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, has provided tips on how to safely use virtual reality devices. One piece of advise that Bailenson included in his report is if students are using room-scale VR, then they should explore the room first with their virtual goggles on before the simulation starts. […]
Every school district in North Dakota should reach 1 gigabit per second of connectivity by summer 2019. For some, that could mean a tenfold increase. The 100-gigabit upgrade to North Dakota’s statewide STAGEnet network will also provide faster service for higher education institutions and governments. The state’s core network and internet capacity will see a […]
A lot of science goes into building a great acoustic guitar. For example, students must analyze malleability, weight and other composition factors when picking the wood to make their own instrument. CIO News: Making virtual connections Students can learn this specialized manufacturing—along with the necessary chemistry, algebra and engineering—from the STEM Guitar curriculum and the […]
With just over 100 K12 students and the closest 1,000-student district nearly 100 miles away, Colorado’s Arickaree School District utilizes e-learning technology to create virtual classrooms. In particular, it collaborates in synchronous online learning with the 1,800-student STEM School Highlands Ranch near Denver. Link to main story: Sounds of STEM education “When you are small […]
As technology becomes more integrated into schools, more than half of education professionals say they have deployed apps at their school. This is according to a recent national survey by Extreme Networks, a network software provider. Nearly 70 percent of respondents who use apps say they are used to share information. Link to main story: An […]
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