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A policy advocate from the American Civil Liberties Union warned FETC attendees last week that fear-based marketing and limited empirical evidence are driving district adoption of student surveillance tools. -
To support students facing mental health stressors in the digital age, school leaders must explain features like “data mining” and “engagement algorithms,” and give kids chances to develop social skills offline.
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Colorado State University's custom-built chatbot was developed on a secure network, so sensitive research and student information can be safely entered into it.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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A two-bill package making its way through the Senate Education Committee would require schools to have working automatic external defibrillators, as well as a safety team trained and certified to use them.
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A cyber attack on the computer servers at Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technical Center in Pennsylvania earlier this month could impact about 3,000 past and current employees, although no one has reported problems yet.
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Speaking at the annual CoSN conference Monday, education author Michael Horn outlined the ways that schools can use technology to rethink instruction and create a “mastery-based” learning model.
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School officials at a district in Indiana see the potential for ChatGPT to enable better research or laziness among students, or both. Like many, they're waiting to see how other organizations adjust.
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Onondaga Community College's new supply chain management degree will help prepare a workforce for a massive computer memory chip plant planned for construction by Micron Technologies in Clay.
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Training systems like Georgia’s Cyber Range are crucial, enabling students to practice their tech skills with real-world scenarios such as machine learning for a manufacturer or information security on a mobile app.
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In the scramble to solve looming challenges in education regarding broadband, online learning, artificial intelligence or any number of new technologies, it’s easy to overlook astonishing improvements.
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The CIA Mission Possible Operation Advance Technology competition will invite educators across the U.S. to vie for computer and coding laboratories outfitted with $60,000 worth of technology.
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Planned academic restructuring at the university will include a new School of Emerging and Applied Technologies, which will accommodate a new cybersecurity degree as well as programs on data science, VR/AR and AI.
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Proposed legislation would ask the Hawaii Department of Education to assess the need and implications of making computer science a graduation requirement, amid concerns that students need more education in the subject.
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With new state funding available to districts that were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are upgrading to environmentally efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems.
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An initiative through Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management is trying to make higher education more accessible to women and girls around the globe via the Canvas online learning platform.
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Some experts say advances in artificial intelligence could yield educational tools to accurately assess reading level, comprehension, phonemic awareness, vocabulary and other skills that can be difficult to measure.
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Zumbrota-Mazeppa Primary School in Minnesota is teaching students how to use technology while employing it to augment and connect lesson plans, bridge the divide between subjects and create more holistic education.
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Meta-analyses of many studies have found that students comprehend and retain more from reading printed texts than screens, but design features and teaching metacognition could help make the most out of digital materials.
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The pandemic brought accelerated tech adoption, new funding opportunities and operational changes to higher education. The near future may require careful prioritization and institutional investment.
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Maryann Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA, explains in a Q&A that digital screens over-utilize the brain's novelty reflex, but they help students in particular cases.
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The nonprofit Women Leading Technology is working with the University of Texas at Dallas, the city of Richardson and Techie Factory to introduce girls and young women to architecture as a potential career.
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