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SUNY Oneonta’s Milne Library and Cooperstown Graduate Program were awarded a $50,000 grant to digitize the university’s archive of New York state folklife and oral history recordings. -
Laci Henegar, Rogers State University's STEM coordinator, graduated in December with the university's first master's degree in cybersecurity policy, governance and training.
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Howard University’s redesigned Intro to AI course, supported by the nonprofit CodePath and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, introduces industry-aligned training for entry-level engineering roles.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Despite efforts to combat ransomware attacks on higher ed institutions, the education sector remains one of the most targeted industries as more vulnerabilities and data incentivize hackers.
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Company officials say Content Filter can help K-12 schools comply with CIPA and E-rate requirements. It uses a combination of keyword scans and AI-powered image and video checks to flag and block harmful material.
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State grants will afford the College of New Jersey and Thomas Edison State University modernized classrooms, labs, information technology and other infrastructure to support virtual learning, research and collaboration.
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A public research university in Ohio will work with several U.S. universities and colleges to offer workshops, seminars, competitions, new credential-bearing certificates and pathway courses in cybersecurity.
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A new ed-tech tool prompts students to stop and take a deep breath at different intervals, and allows teachers to time classroom activities so they can compare participation and productivity in different environments.
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A New York school district will hire an architectural firm to study what will be involved in the transition to an electric fleet of buses, including mileage, chargers, bus route characteristics and electrical capacity.
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Louisiana has earmarked $20 million for school security upgrades, at least some of which will go toward artificial intelligence software that monitors camera feeds to detect weapons and sends alerts to officials.
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Before a global cyber attack compromised data from New York schools in May, an audit by the state comptroller and a special commissioner of investigation had criticized the district for insufficient oversight.
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An outreach effort called AZ LEGIT aims to connect rural schools and agencies with cybersecurity tools and training, a threat-sharing communication system and incident response services from the National Guard.
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As part of the 30th annual Solar Car Challenge, high schoolers from Pasadena's Polytechnic School will race against other teams driving 1,400 miles from Texas to California in a solar-powered vehicle they built.
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The Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program at Utica Community Schools pairs technology professionals with computer science and cybersecurity programs to share their industry-level experience.
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In this year's annual "Chromebook Camp," the technology services director for a West Virginia school district helped teachers get acclimated with 3-D printing and Cricut, a computer application-aided cutting machine.
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Like the Internet and remote learning before it, artificial intelligence is part of a long history of technological upheavals in teaching and learning, and education leaders might benefit from lessons of the past.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says researchers at MIT, Caltech and McMaster University have begun using AI to run advanced simulations, model hypotheses, conduct experiments and predict outcomes of complex systems.
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Among the education-related bills signed by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green this week was HB503, which calls upon the state board of education to assess when, and whether, to make computer science a graduation requirement.
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After successfully piloting a program involving swipe cards and scanners on buses to track when students get on and off, a public school system in Virginia is rolling it out to all 28 of its elementary schools.
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After winning a World Summit Award for teaching coding to K-8 students, Teachers Lead Tech started offering its educational platform to U.S. schools near the end of the 2022-2023 academic year.
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As colleges and universities in the U.S. navigate the implications of AI tools such as ChatGPT, some of the top institutions across the pond have come together on a handful of guiding principles.
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