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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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A 36,000-gallon ocean and atmosphere simulator at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography will allow researchers to study interactions between wind, waves and microbial life with unprecedented accuracy.
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Funded in part by federal COVID-19 relief programs, the school’s 40,000-square-foot facility has 17 technical lab spaces where students will train in multiple disciplines and fields of the energy industry.
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With a pair of $1 million state grants, Columbia State Community College in Tennessee will establish a mobile classroom for its emergency medical technician training program in partnership with Hickman County Schools.
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The nonprofit has created online training courses to teach K-12 educators about data management and literacy, so they can implement industry data standards that will make student performance metrics more useful.
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Napa Valley Unified School District voted this week to continue meeting virtually for another 30 days, citing accessibility and state and local health recommendations while some parents responded with profanities.
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Tennessee Tech University students brought lesson plans involving robots to Willow Brook Elementary School in Oak Ridge this week, learning teaching skills while sharing STEM technology with early grade levels.
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Manchester School District in New Hampshire is co-funding an initiative from the National Collaborative for Digital Equity to deliver refurbished laptops to students and teach them about hardware, software and functions.
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The platform uses artificial intelligence to match students with therapists based on their preferences and schedules, without having to travel to and from campus health centers with limited staff.
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The UT Education and Research Center at Laredo will include a first-of-its-kind School of Biomedical Informatics, dealing with data science, A.I., clinical and health informatics, bioinformatics and systems medicine.
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After initially saying it was unaware of personal information being exposed by a ransomware attack months ago, the district is now sending written notifications that names and social security numbers were exposed.
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Mark Galassi, an astrophysicist and computer programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, runs an extracurricular system that starts with chess, ventures into computer coding and culminates with a research internship.
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SponsoredPreparations for the fall must include strategies to defend against the rising tide of ransomware and other security threats.
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Starting next year, a 22-seat autonomous electric bus will run a 2.5-mile route on Michigan State University's campus, communicating with traffic lights and operating with a driver present but inactive unless necessary.
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The Portland Association of Teachers has proposed giving teachers one day a week for planning and virtual office hours during which students would learn remotely, though some are concerned about potential learning loss.
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The editorial board of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review commends the college for being open with the public about a recent ransomware attack and shutting down classes Monday and Tuesday to be safe.
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A recent paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that on average across 12 states, remote learning correlated with far steeper drops in reading and math scores than in-person classes.
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Voters in Utica, N.Y., will decide whether Thomas R. Proctor High School should add a 28,300-square-foot addition for career and technical education programs to accommodate growing enrollment.
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University researchers have created a prototype that measures respiration and can be worn like an insulin pump, so if the wearer stops breathing and moving for 15 seconds, it administers naloxone.
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