La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, is piloting a companion robot for students with special needs in a Victorian school. Based on teacher input, the highly interactive robot, Matilda, teaches social and academic skills, such as offering fun activities for students who can wait their turn.

Developers should consider the science around learning and memory when building education apps, suggests psychologists from the Swiss Distance Learning University, the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Researchers are considering strategies to help improve test results for students taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Among the issues, according to researchers at the University of Leuven, is that the current use of multiple-choice questions rewards guessing in some cases.

Principal Rebecca Steck and computer teacher Jennifer Vespucci describe the skills they are focusing on for their middle-schoolers when integrating the Chromebooks and iPads purchased for their school.

Protect your district's network against these threats to keep student data safe from growing cybercriminal networks in 2019.

Yes, there are online preschools. And early childhood experts say they stink.  

Many schools now have access to technology, but teachers are still unsure how to integrate it into their teaching in powerful ways. A technology coach could be a powerful way to help them make the transition.

To expand access to technology, the Spokane Public Library in Washington state is working with the local public-school system to provide restored laptops to students, who learn to use the devices and reach out to the library for technical assistance.

Brad Blankenship had been working in edtech for nearly 10 years when he noticed that food services—an essential division in any school district—was being neglected.

Digital kompetens lyfts fram i läroplanerna för skolan. Men ute i klassrummen väger ännu det talade och skrivna ordet tyngst i bedömningen av texter som också innehåller symboler, bild och ljud. Språklärare behöver inkludera och värdesätta det multimodala språket, menar forskare i Göteborg och Kristianstad.

Here's a secret for helping your students become deeper learners.

The elementary grades can set students up with a powerful foundation in science, technology, engineering and math, teacher Anne Jolly writes. In this blog post, she offers five tips to make elementary STEM lessons engaging, including focusing on inquiry-based learning and centering activities around an engineering design process.