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Latest · October 2, 2026
Stories tagged “Education” — tech coverage from New Brunswick, Canada.
Tech coordinators and coaches from every anglophone district spent two days with the McKenna Institute, EECD, and the Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation on the Miramichi.
The Faculty of Computer Science wrapped two July weeks of Adventures in Computing for grades 6–8 — the same kids walking into Policy 311 classrooms this September.
A rewritten Policy 311 bans personal devices all day for K–8 this September, phases high school in next February, and restricts social apps on the school network — with Beauceron's David Shipley backing the line.
The summer alumni-magazine Q&A is sharpest on mimicry, chatbot liability, and the productivity paradox — and thinnest when it turns into a campus brochure.
The pilot reached more than 150 students on the days New Brunswick classrooms sit empty — and the Dieppe session sent the adaptive switches and toys it built to the Stan Cassidy Centre.
Launched in 2021 with $5 million from the former premier and a plan to raise $50 million more, UNB's McKenna Institute has grown into the province's most ambitious bet on digital skills — reaching from kindergarten classrooms to research chairs.
