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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.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Alamo Colleges will email students before the start of classes and ask them to choose either a physical or digital copy of textbooks and instructional materials, to be paid for by $17 million in federal grant funding.
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As cases of COVID-19 skyrocket with the prevalence of a new variant, New Jersey’s largest school district is preparing technology, materials and all necessary links and codes should students have to learn remotely.
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Seeking to connect qualified students to a workforce that needs them, the two-year Blockchain Innovation Challenge sought blockchain solutions that would make student records easier to share and access securely.
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With projects in cybersecurity, AI, extreme environments, biomedical breakthroughs and educational disparities, the 2021 Carnegie classifications recognized UTSA as a “very high research activity” doctoral institution.
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Except for one live lesson a week, EBR Virtual Academy’s new vendor will have students either completing assignments on their own, meeting in small groups or one-on-one with Arizona State University teachers or coaches.
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A team led by university astronomer and regents’ professor Marcia Rieke completed the main camera for NASA’s new $10 billion space telescope, the successor to the 31-year-old Hubble, in 2013. It’s set to launch Dec. 25.
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The new round of funding will go toward digital skills, data analytics, the state’s educational and workforce data infrastructure, programs for front-line health care workers, special education, charter schools and more.
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Buffalo Public Schools are considering temporarily resuming remote instruction after winter break as the new omicron variant of COVID-19 continues spreading rapidly. Administrators are waiting on more data.
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Three school districts and 39 career and technology centers will receive money from the state’s Career and Technical Education Equipment Grant program, for new equipment to train students for high-demand jobs.
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Growing interest in artificial intelligence tools and data analytics were among the dominant trends in education technology in both K-12 and higher education this year, according to industry leaders.
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Seattle Colleges has proposed to offer four-year bachelor's degrees in computer science at the community college level, with Amazon donating $1 million to three higher-education entities supporting the effort.
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The Indiana college is launching a program to train students for the fourth phase of the Industrial Revolution, involving remotely controlled smart systems of devices that communicate with people and each other.
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In celebration of Computer Science Education Week earlier this month, Santa Fe Public Schools are highlighting how local tax dollars fund multi-year plans to deepen and expand computer science education across the state.
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Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio are working on artificial intelligence which, when applied to a 3D map of a painting’s surface, can analyze invisible details in brush strokes to determine the artist.
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The team of student researchers won the inaugral Grainger Computing Innovation Prize for designing a new cryptocurrency driven by a “proof-of-space” algorithm that makes mining more energy-efficient.
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The 125,000-square-foot building will house modern laboratories, research and teaching space to prepare students for careers in geosciences, chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy and psychological sciences.
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The Hamm Institute for American Energy at Oklahoma State University will bring scientists, students and faculty together to research innovative energy production as well as environmental concerns and solutions.
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Pierce College professor Kim Rich has been studying and raising awareness of rampant bot activity that's defrauding the state community college system by creating fake student accounts to apply for financial aid.
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