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North East Independent School District, which is located in San Antonio, may soon be fighting a legal battle with the Texas Education Agency over its controversial cellphone policy.
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UW-Stout has received about $2 million of federal grants for special projects to promote civil discourse, enhance understanding of AI and expand short-term, non-degree training programs.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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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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Finding that students had become exceptionally reliant on cell phones while locked down during COVID-19, a Massachusetts school district now requires them to store phones in magnetically sealed pouches during the day.
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A Colorado school district's new career and technical education center allows students to earn post-secondary credits and certifications in fields such as information technology and cybersecurity.
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Experts say communities across the U.S. have made significant progress in efforts to expand Internet access, largely through private-public partnerships and localized initiatives to make broadband affordable to families.
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In a competition hosted by Black Data Processing Associates, middle and high school students from several Minnesota districts created a social network in July, then had eight hours to refine it at an event in August.
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Though their services are illegal in some countries, companies that combine generative AI and human labor to write essays that are undetectable by anti-cheating software are soliciting clients on TikTok and Meta.
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OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center in Illinois is advising school personnel and parents that they need to teach students about social media and how to develop a healthy sense of self-worth and resilience.
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The ninth annual ED Games Expo will occupy the Kennedy Center from Sept. 19-22, with ed-tech developers and representatives of public agencies talking to students and teachers about classroom tools and innovations.
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For families and students who lack home Internet or personal devices, the introduction of technologies like artificial intelligence in schools may only exacerbate digital inequities.
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To append what students learn about AI in school, developers should produce guidelines on how to use their products in a way that’s readily understood by people with varying degrees of “traditional” and digital literacy.
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A $14 million grant will go to school districts in San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Chicago and Indianapolis for expenses that include training teachers on AI and incorporating it into computer-science classes.
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The Sutter County Superintendent of Schools is working with the nonprofit Cyber Proud to host a virtual networking event Sept. 21 for aspiring tech professionals and business representatives of various tech companies.
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