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The AI research company Anthropic is giving a global collective of teachers access to AI workshops, an online community forum and other resources, both to share ideas and to inform the progress of their chatbot Claude. -
A teacher-built AI platform received the highest combined audience and judge score at an ed-tech startup competition during the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando last week.
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Developing policies to establish phone-free schools and a playbook for artificial intelligence, including curriculum, rules and professional learning, are among Connecticut's legislative priorities for 2026.
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The software package includes four components: ACT prep, job-readiness assessment prep, soft skills training and career exploration.
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Education leaders can keep these in mind as the 2016-2017 school year gets under way.
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Twelve school districts in three size categories were awarded for their innovative programs around digital content and curriculum, digital tools, and strategies that pair those resources with educators and students.
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Teachers across the state will get training over the summer so they can introduce the curriculum in the fall.
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The district’s technology staff are working to use the federal e-rate program to give students equitable access to the Internet.
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The Guide to Choosing Digital Content and Curriculum specifically addresses openly licensed educational resources as well as proprietary resources.
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A school- or district-wide plan will help education leaders design a makerspace that students will keep coming back to.
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The governor's broadband plan identifies that a phenomenon dubbed the "K-12 homework gap" as an area where lack of access "may have no greater impact."
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While attending local schools, foster children can make up class credits with Virtual Academy after the regular school day is done, on weekends and during the summer.
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Students who have a school-owned mobile device would be able to get online at home if they live in a lower-income neighborhood.
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School districts would have to create cyberbullying policies that would give them authority to investigate bullying.
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Legislators are still deciding the fate of a bill that would require high schools to provide computer science classes.
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A bill would allow schools to tap into funds that are currently used for school repairs instead of having to get enough votes for bond measures.
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A collaborative effort could bring no-charge public Wi-Fi to neighborhoods.
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The district released a valedictorian's speech and emails.
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Now students spend more time solving problems instead of writing down lecture notes thanks to mobile devices and digital curriculum.
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Funding trumps Common Core as voters consider candidates for state superintendent and governor.
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Computer glitches and claims of lost test results prompted Texas' education chief to waive the requirement that fifth- and eighth-graders pass state tests before advancing.
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