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Free, teacher-vetted lessons offered online by the nonprofit CYBER.ORG are designed to support and re-establish the caregiver’s role as an active participant in a student’s tech-driven education. -
A recent conversation with the senior associate director of AI and teaching and learning at Northeastern University yielded advice about engaging students, upgrading lessons, trial and error, and helpful feedback.
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Starting this spring, a new state test called the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive for grades 3-10 will be “adaptive,” meaning students will get different questions based on their previous answers.
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The K-12 courseware company Edmentum has added trade-specific online career and technical education courses for middle and high school students from Interplay Learning to its platform.
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The waiver would specifically target courses in engineering mechanics, electricity manufacturing, semiconductor fundamentals, and other technical fields where Ohio is experiencing workforce shortages.
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Leslie Eaves, director of project-based learning at the nonprofit Southern Regional Education Board, recommends having students show their work in brainstorming, outlining, drafting and improving drafts of writing.
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Intended as a low-risk way to test drive generative artificial intelligence, the platform allows teachers to create content, set up AI-based classroom activities and view dashboards that track student progress.
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Research and development for educational technology should involve a continuous loop of teachers providing feedback, developers implementing changes in real time and researchers studying the impact.
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A presentation by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative this week introduced ninth and 10th graders to potential jobs associated with broadband, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
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The North Carolina district learned earlier this year that a data breach of the software company PowerSchool impacted an estimated 150,000 current and former students and 28,000 current and former staff members.
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A cyber criminal who successfully extorted the software company PowerSchool for ransom in December 2024 did not delete the stolen data as promised. Now the same culprit appears to be threatening individual districts.
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K-12 students will have to store any wireless communication devices in their cars or lockers during the school day. Gov. Kay Ivey is expected to sign the bill, as she said in February that she supported it.
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While other electric bus companies are ramping up production, a court-appointed monitor cast doubt on Lion's future after Quebec announced last week that it would not invest $24 million to relaunch the company.
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Cypress and Loara high schools in California hope that HALO smart sensors in bathrooms and locker rooms will help catch vaping students by sending instant alerts to school officials.
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An open letter in The New York Times this week, signed by over 250 CEOs, says the success of America and its future workers depends upon students learning about computer science and artificial intelligence in K-12.
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The U.S. needs a national plan to compete with China for dominance of the next generation of world-changing technology, and the education sector needs different degrees of oversight and objectives than commercial AI.
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Seven new schools opening across New York City include one in Brooklyn focused on using AI to help kids learn, support teachers and teach ethical use. The school will also integrate virtual reality into core subjects.
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The Consortium for School Networking and the Association of Educational Service Agencies are launching a national training network to help district teams assess AI readiness and create implementation plans.
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School districts across Connecticut are monitoring how students access videos on YouTube, with some banning certain grades from accessing YouTube completely and others restricting content for specific age groups.
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Some schools in Connecticut are at the forefront of embracing artificial intelligence, as the state launched a pilot program this year in half a dozen districts to help introduce state-approved AI tools to classrooms.
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Several summer internship programs through the New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell will age-appropriate lessons about the basics and importance of cybersecurity.
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