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North East Independent School District, which is located in San Antonio, may soon be fighting a legal battle with the Texas Education Agency over its controversial cellphone policy.
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One of the key lessons from Florida Virtual School’s collaboration with the AI-enabled data platform Doowii was the importance of spending time with users to understand their needs and limits.
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The Johnson STEM Activity Center in Atlanta last month hosted NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, who's partnering with Meta in hopes of making virtual reality and artificial intelligence accessible to young teens.
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Several Christian schools were among those to receive state grant money earmarked for putting security cameras, visitor management systems, automatic door locks and other tech-driven safety measures into K-12 buildings.
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High school students involved with the Georgia 4-H Tech Changemakers program this year worked with local governments and organizations to deliver digital literacy training to a record 5,488 adults.
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Following through on the promise of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Department of Energy has opened applications for school districts in high-need areas to receive grants for energy-related projects.
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Families are waiting for more information after a school district in south New Jersey canceled classes for several days this week because an unauthorized party disconnected school Internet service.
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Online tutoring has evolved in the years since the pandemic, with schools and tutoring companies adjusting to the new reality of remote learning. For it to succeed, teachers and students both need to make adjustments.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a measure requiring all public and private schools to create digital maps of their buildings for law enforcement and other first responders to use in emergencies.
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An Oklahoma school district is providing identity theft protection services through IDX after an unauthorized party gained access to systems that contained Social Security and bank account numbers.
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Artificial intelligence creates new ethical challenges as quickly as it does opportunities in the education space. The movement for competency-based education could use the same urgency and innovation.
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A Texas school district is tapping federal funds to invest in newer technology to expedite the process of moving thousands of students through metal detectors each morning. They will still detect weapons or vape pens.
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An Indiana school district canceled classes Monday and is working with a third-party cybersecurity company to investigate an intrusion last week that compromised its network and left parts of it malfunctioning.
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The merger will incorporate all of Explain Everything’s employees and assets, which include a digital whiteboard app that allows collaboration between K-12 teachers and students, into Promethean’s suite of classroom tools.
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The state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that would mandate the creation of statewide guidelines for lessons on information literacy across digital, visual and technological media.
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Teacher preparation programs like the one at the University of Texas have overhauled their curricula to incorporate digital tools for remote learning, as well as training to respond to students’ mental health needs.
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Appellate courts have barred elected officials from blocking abusive users on social media, but absent better site moderation, this leaves local school board members no practical way to deal with excessive harassment.
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A new science, technology, engineering and math lab under construction at Greensburg Junior High School will allow students to get acquainted with robotics and design tools related to manufacturing.
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Frequent fights have prompted Georgia’s largest school district to invest in security vestibules, alert badges that contact authorities, and possibly an artificial intelligence-based weapons detection system.
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According to a recent analysis by the research and advocacy organization Common Sense Media, the seven most popular VR devices in schools collect so much user data that they present serious privacy concerns.
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