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Starting a computer science program at the elementary school level involves gathering support, explaining the “why,” letting teachers play and experiment, establishing tech teams and formalizing new expectations. -
As digital tools become more embedded in teaching and learning, questions about wellness, engagement and balance are affecting how districts think about instructional quality and responsible technology governance.
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Instructors are evaluating how artificial intelligence impacts the main goals of education and adjusting their teaching accordingly. This leads to conversations about critical thinking and changing workforce expectations.
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A 2022 analysis by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation found that students who said that they were distracted by other students using digital devices in class scored 15 points lower in mathematics.
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The New York State Comptroller's Office criticized the St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services for failing to maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records of the district's devices.
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Community colleges in New Mexico will be host sites for equipment that will connect all public schools to the Statewide Educational Network, extending access to high-speed Internet to smaller districts.
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The digital learning platform Solvably’s new AI Centers of Excellence challenge users to apply AI to academic or real-world problems. The modules can be tailored for K-12, higher education or professional development.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul and Micron Technology pledged more than $70 million to renovate a high school building in downtown Syracuse that has been closed for nearly 50 years. Classes are expected to begin in 2025.
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Watertown City School District and nine others in New York state will begin piloting an educational program in 2024 developed by teachers and Micron to interest and train students in semiconductor technology.
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In the four months since Orange County Public Schools in Florida banned students from using cellphones at school, teachers and staff have seen positive changes. Some students are irked they can't use phones at lunch.
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A recent cyber attack in Southern California prompted officials to advise students and staff to not use their district-issued devices while IT crews worked to resolve the ransomware affecting their systems.
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A panel of educators on Thursday said professional development and putting technology at the center of instructional design are two important aspects of building successful online learning programs.
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Thirteen school districts near the Mexico border will use U.S. Department of Education GEAR UP grants to buy ClassVR headsets from Avantis Systems, which come with access to a library of educational media.
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Having ended its agreement for home Internet access through the Verizon Innovative Learning Program, Houston Independent School District will pay for individual hotspots that cost $15 per student per month.
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California will require all newly purchased or leased school buses to be zero-emission starting in 2035, but some rural districts say electric buses can't drive far enough on one charge to replace diesel buses.
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Research teams at the University of Texas at San Antonio are trying to develop AI models that mirror how the human brain processes information at a fraction of the energy that current AI systems use.
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Some rural school districts in the vast and varied state say that the current infrastructure will not provide electric vehicles with the range they need to effectively get all students to schools.
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In order to become “ultra-intelligent institutions” that harness data to improve all aspects of their operations, colleges and universities must make their disparate data sets accessible, searchable and analyzable by AI.
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Marion County Schools in West Virginia will expand its use of facial recognition technology to cross-reference photos of school visitors with photos pulled from the West Virginia State Police's sex offender registry.
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A 30,000-square-foot, single-story facility on the southeast corner of Clark State's Springfield campus will accommodate academic programs for middle and high school students through the Global Impact STEM Academy.
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories recently hosted its third annual daylong Hour of Code at Potlatch Elementary School, where a coding education program taught students to build their own animations and mini-games.
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