k-12 education

There have been many conversations about the impact of technology on individual schools, but much less about the impact on entire education systems. To address this, Cisco staged five roundtable discussions in Australia to investigate the opportunities presented by digitization. K-12 education has n…

For the second summer in a row, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Governance Lab (GovLab) put on camps for middle and high school students to teach them how to harness the power of open data and crowdsourcing to make important decisions in agriculture and food. The students…

My two sons registered for school, and for the first time, I am a bit anxious in what the year will bring. Not because they are not capable, but like many parents, I fear I may not be. Many of us didn’t grow up with the technology available to our children inside and outside of their classrooms, and…

Previously on the blog, we’ve discussed why cybersecurity is such an important topic in the education space, including the different types of attacks schools, colleges and universities might face, such as ransomware. But cybersecurity can be daunting – where do you begin? That’s easy – call in the e…

From the U.S. to the U.K. (and everywhere in between), Cisco is enabling schools and universities to #LearnWithoutLimits through the use of digital technology. As schools are put under constant pressure to compete for new students, raise academic performance, build safe and secure learning environme…

As schools, colleges, and universities become more connected, it opens up a world of possibilities for students. The IT market suggests today we have around 15 billion devices utilizing an IP address, and that number is expected to grow to approximately 500 billion devices by 2030. Everything from t…

Following The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the Ministry of Education was looking for a way to teach students in remote locations about disaster prevention. Their solution was Cisco TelePresence. To test this method of learning, the Ministry of Education selected two middle schools, Hashi…

As we gear up for one of the premier global IT education conferences, ISTE 2016, we’d like to speak to our partnership with iSchool Initiative and the iSchool bus that will be making an appearance at the annual conference. iSchool Initiative’s vision is to revolutionize the education system and prom…

The Public Technology Institute (PTI) is looking for contributors for its latest e-book on education, The Digital Journey in K-12 Education. You might remember PTI’s previous e-book, The Digital Revolution in Higher Education, which featured contributions from education innovators, faculty, administ…