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Former University of Pennsylvania tech leader Rob Nelson said small, cross-functional teams, local experimentation and faculty-centered support can unlock meaningful innovation in applications of AI.
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The state’s 911 tech management authority is deploying a new tool from Motorola Solutions that could ease burdens for call takers and dispatchers. It could also help agencies deal with hiring woes.
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Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.
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A Thomson Reuters report has found scant use of AI among judges and other court professionals. But that also presents an opportunity amid persistent staffing shortages and growing case delays.
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A new AI initiative being offered to 30 campuses in Pasco County this fall proposes to help teachers analyze student performance data, identify student questions and problems, and formulate responses.
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The district will be using a new AI-powered tool to gather feedback as part of its AI Public Listening Session later this month. Depending upon the results, officials may scale the technology for broader use.
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At ISTELive 25 on Monday, technology leaders from a private boys’ school in New York City offered suggestions for engaging teachers to demystify AI and decide how to use it, including grade-by-grade ideas for K-8.
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Researchers used a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation, which supports commercializing research discoveries, to develop a robotic microscope to help farmers find and count animal parasites.
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The One Big, Beautiful Bill budget legislation that cleared the U.S. Senate Tuesday no longer includes the moratorium on state-level AI regulatory efforts, after a bipartisan vote to amend the bill by removing the provision.
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In a Q&A before the International Society for Education Technology conference this week, Richard Culatta said the next phase of AI education may involve teaching "life skills" students will need in order to thrive.
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The Greater Omaha Chamber and nonprofit Scott Data are working together in hopes of accelerating artificial intelligence use by local businesses. The latter maintains a 110,000-square-foot data center in the area.
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North Carolina’s PATH NC platform will have features including AI-assisted tools. It will also digitally connect the state’s 100 counties for the first time in such a way, offering exponential change in case handling.
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Job applicants have already started using AI to get ahead, so K-12 districts would do well to start experimenting with what the technology can do to attract and process applications — and what it can't.