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At the ISTELive 25 conference in San Antonio, a group of librarians said the potential of artificial intelligence to enable research must be weighed against costs not only to student learning but to content creators. -
Following the introduction of an artificial intelligence concentration and bachelor’s degree, Mississippi State is now offering graduate-level AI education.
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Beaverton School District implemented digital hall passes after large groups of students started meeting each other in hallways during class, but a parent alleges that the new system constitutes behavioral monitoring.
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The lack of a federal budget has put several STEM programs on ice, reducing the number of hands-on experiences with technology available to students from low-income schools.
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A bill making its way through the Texas Legislature would require every school district to have a policy requiring students to keep cellphones in storage lockers throughout the school day.
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Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency priority list includes “life-changing career training" high school programs, with the goal of getting 60 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds to obtain a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.
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Hoping to avoid name mispronunciations that had marred many students' experiences in past ceremonies, West Chester contracted with Tassel for professionally recorded announcements, but some students objected.
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The University of Maine, the Maine College of Art & Design, Husson University and the University of New England are expanding their online offerings amid growing demand for flexibility and degree-completion programs.
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News literacy lessons, which teach students to use critical thinking in conjunction with the Internet to separate fact from fiction, are essential to prepare students to navigate the digital information ecosystem.
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The Minneapolis City Council is taking a second look at its decision last year to allow sidewalk delivery robots at the University of Minnesota. The city is researching their impact on the university and workers.
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New York City Public Schools have confirmed that at least four of their schools were affected by the breach, and they're working with PowerSchool to identify and directly notify students whose data was compromised.
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Some studies have been quashed and others already underway could be in jeopardy. Nationwide health data sets also disappeared from the web pages of the U.S. CDC, with some reappearing with missing information.
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A report issued this week by the Consortium for School Networking looks at the hurdles to innovation in K-12 education, as well as the trends and technology school leaders can use to improve teaching and learning.
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A carefully planned overhaul of bus fleets for St. Louis-area school districts is in limbo after an executive order from President Donald Trump paused previously allocated spending on clean energy initiatives.
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In its first year, a federally funded program through Miami Dade College trained 675 students at universities or boot camps, and 315 of those have since found jobs with salaries $66,000 or more.
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To expand computer science education at Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado, a former IT coordinator convened a group of teachers to help overhaul course offerings and standardize a curriculum with broad appeal.
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The final session of this year's Future of Education Technology Conference offered a glimpse at how AI platforms and tools might revolutionize education accessibility for students and work efficiency for teachers.
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The system incorporates Florida’s academic standards, course work and individual student data to assist teachers and personalize learning. It uses information on the Internet but is not accessible to the public.
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In collaboration with Instructure, Alphabet, Nvidia, Intel, AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI and others, the California State University system is to roll out AI tools and training to all students, faculty and staff.
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The education software company PowerSchool is working with the credit-monitoring agency Experian to provide data breach victims with two years of identity protection and credit-monitoring services.
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The university will be the first in the country to house commercial-scale nuclear reactors. State and industry leaders noted the increasing demand for electricity amid the rise of AI and other energy-intensive technologies.
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