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The American Medical Association awarded $12 million across 11 institutions to implement artificial intelligence-powered feedback for students on tasks like clinical reasoning and interactions with patients. -
A recent promotion through the state-funded CalKIDS initiative highlights how the state of California is using education savings accounts to address technology access for students.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international policy research group, found that when students depend on AI, the mental processes that turn answers into understanding decline.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Students at Scranton-area elementary schools are learning about STEM concepts thanks to an $18,000 grant and a team of volunteer STEM teachers from the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
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The cyber criminal group reportedly responsible for the attack has published 500GB of files containing Social Security numbers, passport details, student psychological assessments and other information.
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The CritterCoin platform is giving teachers in some Dallas classrooms a new avenue to encourage participation among their students: non-fungible tokens. The digital coins help to track student and group activity.
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Officials with the Davenport Community School District reported that no information seemed to have been compromised when a hacker gained access to the computer system earlier this month.
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With students turning to accelerated training as an alternative to traditional IT and information security degree programs, experts say the question of boot camps versus college depends largely on students' goals.
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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and edX report revealed that, from a global group of about 1,400 students and educators, the ability to use tools that work around their lives is most important.
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Electric school buses are playing an increasingly large role in helping to manage the sustainability of the power grid as more renewable sources of power generation continue to come online.
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The Lincoln Board of Education gave initial consideration to a 10-year contract that would allow the district to connect to a network of dark fiber, which are unused strands of cable already installed that can be leased.
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For the first time dating back to the fall of 2019, back-to-school time really does mean going physically back to school for students in local districts and nearby colleges — but with a healthy asterisk.
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When the pandemic was brewing in Asia in early 2020, Lauren Gardner, a civil engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate student saw the chance to mine the data and map an outbreak from the start.
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Drawing from ed-tech leaders’ insights, a Georgia State University report said ed-tech tools should be developed and viewed largely as a means to bolster traditional instructional methods rather than replacing them.
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Dixon Public Schools officials are clearing out old computers and servers to make way for more secure technology. The decision comes just days after a breach of the widely used communication app, Seesaw.
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Voters approved more than $326 million in bond funding for Texas’ Montgomery Independent School District to fund a new elementary school, a new agriculture center and a new career and technical education center.
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The federal Office of Educational Technology during today's National Digital Equity Summit launched its Advancing Digital Equity for All resource, which provides a platform for recommendations to establish equity plans.
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The higher ed system will use nearly $4 million to boost workforce development to prepare workers for jobs relating to clean energy technology, such as offshore wind and electric car development.
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The K-12 platform, used by a majority of schools throughout the U.S., has announced that its offerings are now available for schools across Canada, and adhere to many of the country’s privacy laws.
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ZeroEyes has been chosen to bring their gun detection tool into Vassar Public Schools to alert school officials to the presence of firearms on campus. The AI system links directly to security cameras.
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The state has partnered with the financial technology company ClassWallet to help manage the distribution of federal relief funds given to private and other nonpublic schools, an announcement said.
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