Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

About 90% of schools provide laptops or tablets to their students. Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other ...

While moderate use of computer devices can have academic benefits, especially when they are used at home, intensive use is often correlated with diminishing performance, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

As the first week of the semester has already passed, most classes have reviewed their syllabi and class rules. For some students, those rules have included a ban on laptops that probably comes as a ...

A study takes a close look at the effect of electronics in the classroom. Cellphones and laptops can be distracting for students in classrooms, and new research also shows that using electronic ...

Educational technology in schools is sometimes described as a wicked problem — a term coined by a design and planning professor, Horst Rittel, in the 1960s, meaning a problem for which even defining ...

Biology professor Jody Hey was lecturing on human evolution one recent day at Temple University. His students vigorously took notes by hand in paper notebooks. There wasn’t a laptop in sight. Nor an ...

A wave of validation swept over me when I read the many emails from teachers and parents who responded to my column about how overuse of screens in classrooms is hurting education. Even though plenty ...

In this brave new world of twenty-first century higher education, it is now axiomatic that professors must employ every possible digital device in order to engage their students. This has led to the ...

High school students sitting at the desk in the classroom during lesson, using laptops. NINA MOINI: We're excited about this here on Minnesota Now. As students and teachers are settling into their ...