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Software, devices and online services used by schools and students for teaching, assessment and learning, from classroom laptops to learning platforms.
GitHub retired Classroom on 28 August 2026, decommissioning its website and APIs after closing new sign-ups on 26 May. Educators who did not export their data before then have to rebuild what Classroom held themselves.
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Google will end ChromeOS support by 2034 and convert many existing Chromebooks into Googlebooks, its new Android-based laptops. For schools running Chromebook fleets, the next refresh becomes a move onto Google's Android and Gemini platform before that deadline.
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Google's enterprise support page confirms ChromeOS updates through 2034 and says many of its newest Chromebooks can move to Googlebook OS. Google has not published which models qualify, so fleet refresh plans still have to run on each device's own update date.
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EdUHK and ECNU researchers pooled 27 studies of 3,590 students and found digital textbooks lift intrinsic motivation more than paper ones. The gains grew with educational level, so schools buying for younger pupils have the weakest evidence to work from.
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Jared Cooney Horvath told the Senate Commerce Committee that Utah's NAEP scores turned down after 2014, the year a computer-adaptive state test made digital infrastructure a requirement for every school in it.
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Politecnico di Milano and the University of Insubria put sensors in an ink pen and had more than 700 schoolchildren write two tasks from Italy's standard writing battery on paper, then checked what the signals could tell them.
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