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The AI Math Coach, designed by math coaches and facilitators in the All Learners Network, offers on-demand instructional support for pre-K-5 educators, focusing on teacher expertise rather than student intervention. -
The IT team at Fulton County Schools in Georgia uses a model for teacher professional development wherein a few educators receive training and take it back to their respective schools.
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Under a state grant program announced in October, 86 New Jersey school districts are receiving a cumulative $980,000 to implement secure storage systems such as lockers, locked pouch systems or check-in cabinets.
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School administrators at a district in Pennsylvania predicted some logistical issues with new AI-driven security devices, but on the second day of the new process, officials said it was running more smoothly than expected.
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Rhode Island is the first state that will use a federally funded service offered through MS-ISAC to automatically block all public school computers from connecting to malicious domains.
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A high school in Colorado next year will start offering a course in unmanned aerial systems, with the high school providing an in-person flight teacher and Aims Community College leading an online, ground-school course.
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A Bus2Grid project in Illinois will not only send electric school buses to 13 school districts, but enable them to discharge unneeded power back to the district, or an electric utility, when needed.
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This year, 18 states passed laws that make clear that sexual deepfakes depicting minors are a crime. Experts say schools should update their policies to account for these AI-generated images as well.
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For New York City's largest solar project to date, a San Francisco-based investment firm will cover installation and maintenance while the city buys $85 million in solar power from the panels over the next two decades.
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Allowing people to speak over Zoom has led to the average number of registered speakers at board meetings quadrupling, and the number of unique speakers tripled in the 2023-24 school year compared to the year prior.
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Students in a criminal justice program at Vinal Technical High School built a free website for first responders that gives daily briefings on hurricanes, disease outbreaks, power outages and solar flares.
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Students from Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Peter High School in Minnesota hosted a program through Project 4 Teens in which they talked to middle schoolers about social media, phone usage and other topics.
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A resource is in the works to help schools understand how to use Title II-A funds for professional development and training teachers to design lesson plans that include technology.
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Twelve L.A. County high school students made it to the Young Innovators Accelerator Pitch Competition last week. Freshman Gabriel Cardenas won first place and $1,400 for his pitch of an AI tool to help students study.
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A former public school teacher filed a proposal last week for the upcoming 2025 session that would require public school districts and charters to adopt policies that largely prohibit use of smartphones during class.
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For all the uncertainties of the near future, such as what industries and job titles will exist in the years ahead, experts are convinced artificial intelligence will continue driving change in work and education.
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The Maine Department of Education has advised that districts park their Lion Electric Co. buses until further inspections, given mechanical and service problems arising with many district fleets.
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Carefully curated data sets and plenty of teacher testing are required to make artificial intelligence-based ed-tech tools suitable for K-12, experts said in a webinar this week organized by Leanlab Education.
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Facing an uphill battle for new customers as schools lose pandemic-era funding, the educational video game company Immersed Games pivoted to embed their content into the platforms of other publishers.
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Electrathon clubs like the one at East Central High School in San Antonio teach STEM concepts involved with electric vehicles by challenging students to build and race their own battery-powered mini cars.
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While the work to introduce computer science concepts early in education is growing, accessible design should be a core component of the subject as students learn about web and mobile app development.
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