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A team of seniors at Midland High School in Michigan used a $2,000 grant to create an artificial intelligence-enabled app, CallGuard, to determine whether a received phone call is coming from a scammer.
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The critical incident mapping was developed by U.S. military operations veterans and adopted for use in schools. It provides first responders with a common operating picture, allowing for a more efficient response.
A handful of Pennsylvania senators have expressed support for legislation that would require student cellphones to be placed in secure lockable bags in all public schools during the school day.
A school district in Manhattan, Kan., wants all employees to take cybersecurity training after several of them clicked on a phishing email, and fewer than 10 percent reported it as phishing.
The Consortium for School Networking’s 2024 State of EdTech District Leadership Report found cybersecurity, interoperability, broadband and device access, and funding among top concerns for district IT leaders.
Baltimore City Public Schools approved a four-year, $5.46 million contract to put AI-powered security scanners from Evolv Technology at 28 schools. Staff generally supported the idea, while students were more ambivalent.
A website created by state and university partners in Michigan offers free interactive content, games and videos to teach students about media, news, and differences between fact and opinion.
STEM summer camps at Lee’s Summit R-7 School District in Missouri sever as fundraisers while introducing students to engineering concepts, mechanical principles, programming basics and related projects and activities.
Fifth grade science classes in South Florida will use the digital instruction and gaming platform Legends of Learning over the next five years as researchers watch for improvements in standardized test scores.
Middle-school students in Caldwell County, North Carolina, worked with Google Data Center volunteers and Raspberry Pi devices to build and test their own computers, which they got to take home.
Two dozen New York schools and districts joined litigation against Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and other social media companies, seeking changes to their platforms and damages for student mental health issues.
State leaders want computational thinking, programming, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital citizenship to be part of computer science, but decisions to require them will be made by local school boards.
Because of costs and infrastructure needs, Capital Region school leaders are concerned they won't be able to meet New York's 2027 deadline to begin buying only electric buses and the 2035 deadline for electrified fleets.
House Bill 485 would require students to keep electronic devices out of the classroom, with some exceptions, and require schools to adopt policies to govern Internet use and teach students about hazards of social media.
Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge will attend the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, showing off app concepts they built using an Apple-developed coding language.
The Reading Readiness Dashboard, recently launched by the state Department of Education, allows the public to view literacy data on who is reading below, at, or above grade level in schools across the state.
