With many screen-time rules in abeyance and distance learning replacing in-person school, teens and younger school kids are reaping the benefits but also seeing the limitations of what digital technology can do for them.

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High school and middle school students, meanwhile, will see more modest increases in spending, at 4% and 3%, respectively. The shift toward online shopping over the past year will continue to push back-to-school sales online.

The screen-time wars are over in many households, with parents having surrendered en masse. In a period when large numbers of parents and school kids are stuck at home with one another, this is one battle many parents choose to forego, at least for now.

After a year spent in Zoom classrooms, many students are headed for physical schools this fall, which means parents are headed for back-to-school shopping. In 2021, the majority of US back-to-school digital shoppers will make use of Amazon and big-box retail websites, and only 27% will shop on office supply sites. More like this:.

In 2020, most schools transitioned to remote learning because of the pandemic, but this year, most schools are expected to open up—heralding an uptick in back-to-school sales in categories like apparel and electronics and helping elevate issuer volume. Issuers could develop rewards related to back-to-school shopping that would also help maximize revenue potential.

Back-to-school spending will elevate sales in the short term: After more than a year of remote learning, many students will return to school this fall—and retailers can expect a boom in volume as consumers shop for school supplies and clothing in the coming weeks and months: US retail back-to-school sales are expected to reenter positive growth this year, hitting $95.83 billion, per eMarketer forecasts

Suzy earned her MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and prior to that was an in-house public relations executive for 5 years.

Kasia Lipska, endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine, suggested a strong potential for bias in digital diabetes companies' clinical trial results. While some DTx trials reveal a small reduction in patient weight or hemoglobin A1C (diabetes metric), they often lack long-term follow up or were based on small groups of patients with no control groups.

Suzy earned her MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and prior to that was an in-house public relations executive for 5 years.

Recent data from University of Michigan Medical School researchers suggests that a sepsis prediction model developed by EHR vendor Epic performs worse than what the vendor tells its customers. The tool did not identify 67% of patients with sepsis, according to a sample of 27,000 adult patients.

Ganesh holds a Bachelors of Chemistry and Economics and Masters of Economics degrees from New York University, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Moderator. Nancy Taffera-Santos is senior vice president of media solutions and strategy at eMarketer. Nancy has been at eMarketer for over 13 years and oversees the media business, developing programs for leading advertisers.

Whether hunkered down at home or working in jobs that require a physical presence, most people have changed their behaviors over the past year—either to preserve their health or because of changes in options for entertainment, shopping, school, or work. That’s had a profound impact on how media is consumed.

Summer will still be at the forefront for many shoppers when Prime Day rolls around this year, especially for parents of younger children, who may still be getting out of school and are not yet into their summer activities. This could make summer apparel and outdoor goods more of a target for many shoppers compared with previous years.

Algorithms for conducting academic assessments or school admissions. AI designed for workplace safety applications. Self-driving car software. Deep fake detection systems used by law enforcement. AI-assisted polygraphs or other tools meant to “detect the emotional state of a natural person.”.

As debate flares over the potential reopening of K-12 schools and universities this fall, 37% of US parents strongly disagree that their child would be just as successful with virtual/distance learning.