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Language professors are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to generate materials, personalize learning, give students more varied opportunities to practice — and keep up with them. -
Spending critical high school years online left many students unprepared for college, both academically and socially. Those setbacks have been compounded by lowered grading standards and emerging technologies like AI.
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School districts across Indiana have taken different approaches to AI, with some using it to automate grading or generate lesson ideas and discussion prompts, while others are wary of AI-enabled cheating by students.
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The grant from the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation in Clark County will go toward classroom technology for students and teachers at the Washington district, for which connectivity has been a challenge during the pandemic.
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The California State University system's Arcata campus is now its third polytechnic institute, with funding to establish 12 new programs in fields such as cybersecurity, IT, data science and software engineering.
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The North Carolina university and Randolph Electric Membership Corporation are seeking middle and high school STEM educators for a summer internship that will teach them about local industries and workforce needs.
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The Minnesota Institute of Technology will build industry partnerships and make technology a programmatic focus for all students, ensuring they're exposed to tools they'll be using in the workforce.
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Voters in Washington’s most populous county will soon choose whether to approve levies and bond measures for growing technology needs, special education, school nurses, construction projects and other initiatives.
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With funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville aim to use software and intelligent memory management techniques to double the lifespan of solid-state drives.
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach received an almost $3.9 million National Science Foundation grant, which it will use to create 20 scholarships for students in aerospace cybersecurity and aviation.
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The College Board, the organization behind the SAT, announced digital exams will run about two hours instead of three, allow more time per question and feature shorter reading passages, with devices provided as needed.
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A federal judge has barred the University of Florida from enforcing policies that aimed to block professors from testifying as expert witnesses in legal cases that involve the state government.
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As a labor shortage has prompted employers to re-evaluate hiring criteria, and as students have increasingly sought cost-effective or online alternatives to college, certification programs may have found their moment.
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Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College in South Carolina is asking the state for budget surplus dollars to support a new advanced manufacturing facility, as well as new programs in HVAC, pharmacy tech and surgical tech.
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Created by the Air Force Association for K-12 students across the U.S., the CyberPatriot competition tasks them with finding cybersecurity weaknesses and strengthening a network's defenses against hackers.
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A two-day workshop in Northern Georgia brought dozens of teachers together for tutorials on the potential of podcasts as educational tools, including how to create them and incorporate them into lessons.
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The University of Texas Permian Basin is renovating building space and has created a new executive role for its Office of Innovation and Commercialization, which will coordinate technology transfer and partner groups.
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The Ohio community college will waive tuition for the first two years of a four-year degree for students of career-tech programs at nearby partner high schools, as long as they complete at least 70 total credit hours.
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Noting health-care staffing shortages across the U.S., the merger aims to make nursing school more accessible by offering prospective students digital loan repayment options based on their actual salary.
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Engineers used a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design prototypes of FaceBit, a sensor that fits inside face masks and can measure how tightly it's fitted, as well as respiration and heart rate.
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Teachers, administrators and students alike have found that more time on screens and away from classrooms only worsened the apparent addiction to cell phones, leading some to seek technological solutions.
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