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Former University of Pennsylvania tech leader Rob Nelson said small, cross-functional teams, local experimentation and faculty-centered support can unlock meaningful innovation in applications of AI.
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Starting this fall, every K-12 district in Missouri, including charter schools, will need a written policy prohibiting students from using personal devices during the school day, with some circumstantial exceptions.
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Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.
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Having levied a local sales tax to buy more than 31,000 Chromebooks, a school district in Georgia has deployed the GoGuardian app to allow parents to monitor the devices, filter content and control when they're used.
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Delivery Associates, an international consulting firm, launched the Community Funding Accelerator pilot program to match K-12 districts with federal grants and guide them through the application process.
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Sacramento City Unified School District has implemented a policy barring students from using generative artificial intelligence for homework or research without a teacher's approval.
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Schools will administer the new digital version of the SAT exam in March, and parents are already concerned about the change, in some cases recommending that their kids take the test this fall or skip it altogether.
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A recent survey from the digital learning platform Clever found that most teachers and administrators want more tech support for students with disabilities or Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
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Student coaches with AmeriCorps’ City Year program will have access to digital tools and an online dashboard from the education software company Curriculum Associates to aid struggling students in grades three to five.
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A five-year program coordinated by the University of Texas at San Antonio and UT Health San Antonio allows students to work toward a medical degree and a master's in artificial intelligence at the same time.
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Through a government program called Community Eligibility Provision, a school district in Indiana is providing student families with access to tablets and a monthly Internet service even during the summer.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University devised a string of code that could unlock ChatGPT and make it do things it was programmed not to. Now they're working on a "mind reader" tool to study how it makes decisions.
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Panelists at the recent AR/VR Policy Conference said AR/VR tools have a unique ability to broaden participation and engagement in STEM courses, provided the tools are created and adopted with accessibility in mind.
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More than a dozen K-12 school districts in Texas will receive more than $10 million, while the largest allotment is $33.7 million.
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Recently addressing the disruption ChatGPT and other tools have brought to global education, the international cooperative agency recommends new laws and regulations, training and forward-thinking public debate.
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Greg Brockman will have an onstage conversation with UND President Andrew Armacost, to be followed by a panel discussion with faculty from computer science, law, mathematics, entrepreneurship, writing and theater arts.
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With online resources being increasingly necessary for school work, a nation-wide T-Mobile program is offering free Internet connectivity and mobile hotspots to up to 10 million eligible K-12 student households.
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The growing scope of a university CIO’s job necessitates a deepening relationship to an institution’s business interests, digital transformation, cybersecurity and development of internal talent.
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Among organizations that reported data leaks since 2019, 56 percent were private companies, and research found small organizations that employed less than 50 workers were more likely to lose client data.
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The University of Kansas is spearheading a technology program that offers a comprehensive array of digital skills training to facilitate the reintegration of incarcerated women into society.
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A Pennsylvania STEM advocacy group gave three grants to an area school district and two businesses, to build out a robotics lab at Millersville University and other local job-shadowing and industry-education programs.
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