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A new tool developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is helping colleges simplify transfer credit evaluation, potentially reducing labor and expediting decisions. -
From AI ethics and governance on campus to cybersecurity training, quantum computing innovations and 6G connectivity, emerging technologies have given IT leaders a lot to contend with in the near future.
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North Carolina's Child Fatality Task Force recently endorsed legislation to limit how companies can use data on minors, and it will continue studying the impacts of AI companions and chatbots.
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 poll of about 900 parents of students in grades 6-12 in Massachusetts, conducted by the nonprofit MassINC, found that 66 percent either strongly or somewhat supported a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools.
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One Arizona school district's career and technical education program exposes student to the semiconductor industry's manufacturing process, from the principles to the processes and the tools that underpin it.
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A new coaching platform for teachers designed by a Utah-based nonprofit offers a model for how districts can use AI teletherapy to improve educator well-being and retention.
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Beyond major tech purchases, novel pilot projects and new job titles, what school IT leaders really need to do with artificial intelligence is lead organizational change with input, transparency and strategic intention.
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A public university in Pennsylvania is offering a graduate program with a state teaching endorsement, akin to a micro-credential, in artificial intelligence, denoting their expertise in AI's foundations and implications.
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Colleges in Kern County, Calif., are engaging students with story-based lessons in a new VR-based classroom in a mobile trailer, consisting of 16 stations equipped with headsets, a joystick and haptic feedback chairs.
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In response to student demand, a new major at the university will bridge technology, business and communication while blending coursework in computer science, information technology and business strategy.
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Panelists at the California IT in Education conference said school IT leaders will face myriad budgeting challenges in the years ahead, but careful planning, partnerships and consultants could help get them through it.
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Beaufort County School District is installing CEIA OPENGATE weapons detection systems to screen all students and visitors at its high school campuses. They will be manned by armed security guards from an outside firm.
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Professors and students at Quinnipiac University developed a hands-free input system with AI and a standard webcam that allows people with limited mobility to communicate using facial gestures.
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The university's business school has partnered with the online learning platform Coursera to give students free access to online continuing education classes and professional certificates from Google, IBM and Meta.
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The move comes soon after the Texas-based gov tech giant bought a company that specializes in electronic warrant tools. Edulink launched in 1998 and counts PAETEP as one of its main products.
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A webinar hosted by OpenAI this week spotlighted how school districts in Illinois, Texas and Arizona implemented and trained staff to use ChatGPT for instruction, operations and governance.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is considering moving its data and information science program out of the College of Letters and Science and into a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
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Rochester Community and Technical College is the latest of a dozen Minnesota institutions that now provide two-year degree programs for which students can use online and AI-generated materials instead of textbooks.
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Inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought, a high school teacher in St. Louis writes that American education is threatened by both intellectual dishonesty and inequitable resources.
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The Federal Trade Commission's proposed order to Illuminate Education would require the company to delete unnecessary student data, implement robust security controls and end misleading privacy claims.
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In collaboration with NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, Sonoma State University students built and launched a satellite to monitor how solar wind interacts with the upper atmosphere.
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