{"id":259205,"date":"2026-05-29T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools-inforum\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:55:23","slug":"public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools-inforum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools-inforum\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to weigh in on technology use in North Dakota schools &#8211; InForum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/north-dakota\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools\">Public asked to weigh in on technology use in North Dakota schools &#8211; InForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/north-dakota\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools\">https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/north-dakota\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 18:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.inforum.com\">www.inforum.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new North Dakota Department of Public Instruction survey seeks statewide feedback on potential changes to how students are using technology.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Levi Bachmeier, who <\/p>\n<p>      took over the state\u2019s top education role<\/p>\n<p>       in November, said he hopes the survey results will inform policymakers on potential reforms to school-issued device policies across the state. During his first student Cabinet meeting, he said a Mandan freshman told him the devices needed to be a \u201ctool, not a toy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world that these young people are inheriting requires them to use technology responsibly, but we know that these devices are just as addictive as substances,\u201d Bachmeier said during a press conference Thursday. \u201cAnd that can be just as true for the school-issued device in their hands as the cellphone they carry around in their pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota <\/p>\n<p>      banned the use of cellphones<\/p>\n<p>       during the school day during the 2025 legislative session, something Bachmeier said has received a near universal <\/p>\n<p>      positive response<\/p>\n<p>       during its first year in effect.<\/p>\n<p>The cellphone ban triggered a migration of some students from using their cellphones to access YouTube and other social media sites to using their school-issued laptops or tablets, Bachmeier said.<\/p>\n<p>The <\/p>\n<p>      survey<\/p>\n<p>       includes questions about restrictions on device usage in elementary school, a potential prohibition on taking devices home, built-in make-up days into school scheduling before using virtual instruction and whether the state should require districts to use monitoring software on the devices.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some school districts already have monitoring software that tracks student technology usage, but it is not a uniform policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s inconsistent,\u201d Bachmeier said. \u201cOur challenge is how do we find what\u2019s the best that is going on in North Dakota and make that a reality for every student in our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/north-dakota\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public asked to weigh in on technology use in North Dakota schools &#8211; InForum https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/north-dakota\/public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-technology-use-in-north-dakota-schools&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/5cdd77f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5602x3735+0+0\/resize\/1599x1066!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F11%2F02%2Fefb317b940a5a961c43c85dd2f8d%2Fimg-4478edit.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259207,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259205\/revisions\/259207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}