Hardware
School Climate & Safety
Copy Machines Pose Data Risks
School districts aiming to shore up their digital security may overlook a seemingly improbable potential threat: copying machines.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Opinion
Reverting to Type
Being tech-savvy starts with learning keyboard skills.
Reading & Literacy
On Writing Tests, Computers Slowly Making Mark
Handwritten NAEP tests for 8th and 12th graders might be replaced.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Technology Upgrades Prompt Schools to Go Wireless
As educational software and web sites become increasingly rich in multimedia, and more schools adopt one-to-one laptop computer initiatives, districts are turning to high-speed wireless networks to make better use of that software and bandwidth-heavy interactive Web sites.
School Climate & Safety
High-Tech Carts Deployed in Schools Hurt by Storms
Four schools in the Baton Rouge, La., area are to be the first recipients of donated state-of the-art technology packages this week as a part of an initiative to upgrade or replace the technology infrastructure of Gulf Coast schools affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Classroom Technology
MIT Professor Touts $100 Laptops at Educational Technology Conference
About 6,000 attendees at the National Educational Computing Conference packed the main hall of the San Diego Convention Center yesterday to hear about an education project that aims to provide up to 150 million low-cost laptop computers to students in developing countries by 2008.
School Climate & Safety
Web Systems Help Schools Screen Visitors
In a growing number of districts, school leaders are ranking the threat of sex offenders—some of them parents of enrolled students—as one of their chief student-safety concerns. That threat, they say, is a primary reason for investing thousands of dollars in a Web-based tracking system that tells school officials if a parent, volunteer, vendor, or any other visitor is a registered sex offender.
Classroom Technology
Back to the Future
As cutting-edge as giving every student a laptop may sound, the author was part of a similar experiment 20 years ago. But that was before what we now know as the Internet existed.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Cyber-Security Concerns Mount as Student Hacking Hits Schools
While schools rightly fear break-ins to their computer systems by professional criminals, students are increasingly giving educators almost as much to worry about.
Classroom Technology
Explainer
Technology in Education
How can technology be put to most effective use in schools?
Classroom Technology
Opinion
One-to-One Computing
It’s not a matter of whether every student will get a computer but when, writes education researcher Andrew A. Zucker.
IT Infrastructure & Management
‘Pen Top’ Computer Promoted as Tool for Learning
It may look like a pen. But it adds, subtracts, plays music and games, reads your handwriting aloud, reminds you to do your homework, and translates English words into Spanish. And oh, yes, it can write, too.
School Climate & Safety
Officials Scramble to Salvage Storm-Damaged School Data
School districts swamped by Hurricane Katrina struggled to get their employee and district data and information systems back up to speed last week in the wake of the catastrophe.
IT Infrastructure & Management
Iowa Law Ends Use of Finger-Scan Technology
A little-noticed Iowa law, designed to protect children by forbidding schools to collect their fingerprints, has halted the use of new technology that district leaders say has improved cafeteria and library operations.