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The nonprofit believes preparing students for a digital future is less about expanding access to devices than about ensuring technology use is grounded in purpose, understanding and meaningful outcomes. -
Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut have contracted with Timely, because budget constraints and reduced staffing have made it increasingly difficult for the district to create master schedules.
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A survey of educators who work in career and technical education found that nearly a third of those who don't already have programs in IT and cybersecurity at their school expect one will launch in the next five years.
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The new website includes a policy FAQ, toolkit and examples that school districts can use to design their own policies to restrict personal devices from being used on school grounds during the school day.
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Ahead of a presentation at the ISTELive 25 + ASCD Annual Conference 25 in San Antonio, a STEAM educator from Pennsylvania shared tips for making cybersecurity training personal and actionable for teachers.
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With information-generating technologies advancing at unprecedented speed, the onus is on teachers as well as students to apply their human capacities to understand context and intent, and discern fact from fabrication.
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After proposed legislation failed to pass a senate committee, an executive order made Oregon the latest state to restrict student use of cellphones during the school day, requiring districts to write their own policies.
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To comply with the state's Focus Act, school board members at a district in northern Alabama approved a policy outlining what the instructional day is, what's not allowed and what the exceptions are.
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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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A new state law, passed with near unanimous support last week from state legislators, has exemptions for special circumstances and doesn’t cover non-instructional times of the school day.
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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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Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are in the process of revolutionizing education. Whether they do so for the better or worse will depend on educators.
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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.
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Suburban school districts on the outskirts of Chicago are staffing technology committees, implementing guidelines, training teachers and planning pilot programs to embrace AI as a necessity in the coming school year.
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Fresno Unified School District had only 40 students enrolled in its online eLearn Academy before 2020. Now, its rebranded Farber School of Online Learning has become one of the largest online programs in California.
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The high court preserved the Universal Service Fund, which finds its beginnings in the 1934 Communications Act. It includes E-rate, and is intended to ensure effective telecommunications across America.
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By putting surveillance cameras on more school buses, East Baton Rouge Parish public schools hope that video evidence will diffuse arguments around student behavior or poor driving and result in fewer insurance claims.
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Organizers for CyberPatriot camps like those hosted by Calhoun Community College say they've seen a trend of rising interest among middle and high schoolers in cybersecurity and IT-related fields.
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In addition to the ban on student phone use — which is part of a legislative trend that is sweeping states across the country — Kentucky also ushered in limits on teacher-student communications.
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More Hamilton County youth will be able to earn thousands beginning late this summer through a paid internship program, now backed with an additional quarter-million dollars in state funding.
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A North Carolina school district is planning updated curricula, staff trainings and community engagement sessions with students, teachers and parents to iron out the specifics of its AI policies by this fall.
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