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Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map. -
University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.
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A school board resolution acknowledges that technology plays an essential role in modern education but says it has to be “balanced with proven traditional methods to best support student achievement and well-being.”
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Federal COVID-19 relief initially provided the funding source to equip students with Chromebooks and other devices to use at home and school. Absent those dollars, many entities can’t afford their replacement.
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Learning opportunities in correctional facilities help prepare inmates to successfully transition back into society. Nucleos and iCEV are working together to make that experience easier and more accessible.
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The nonprofit consortium announced Thursday it will use a “train-the-trainer” model to teach district teams nationwide how to assess and advance school AI readiness. The initiative’s precise timing is unclear.
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The federal funding will go to buy new devices, improve public library infrastructure and offer digital literacy training. The money, a grant, is estimated to reach more than 2,000 people over five years.
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A widespread cybersecurity breach of the PowerSchool Student Information System — used across the U.S. and internationally — is impacting Connecticut schools. The incident was discovered Dec. 28.
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Colleges and universities are important record keepers for history and research. With the help of artificial intelligence, archivists can transcribe, search for and interact with records in new ways.
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The United States Leadership in Immersive Technology Act calls for a national plan to assess and advance the use of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies across key sectors, from education to agriculture.
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The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface.
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The funding, coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will be used for purchasing new library devices, improving public library computer infrastructure and digital literacy training.
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Software that detects AI use and plagiarism in writing now offers a function to assess the credibility of claims in a body of text, offering Internet sources that either support or contradict the author's claims.
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A $9.9 million federal grant will help the college use extended reality, in the form of virtual tours and VR videos, to give people with disabilities a glimpse into what a typical workday in manufacturing looks like.
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Local districts can either adopt the South Carolina Board of Education's model policy prohibiting the use of personal devices during the school day, or create their own. Many districts have already done so.
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South Portland Public Schools took its network offline after a data breach Sunday, and Cumberland Police Department is investigating a phishing attack from outside the U.S. that used the email of a student from MSAD 51.
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Special educators are legally required to write Individualized Education Programs for students with educational disabilities. Experts say AI could ease the paperwork burden and improve the content of these plans.
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A new AI-powered app aims to improve U.S. math proficiency by giving college students one-on-one math support while cutting educators’ workload by taking on course planning, assignment creation and grading.
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Anyone who had a Walkman or Game Boy could attest that schools have been confiscating distracting devices for decades. It's common sense to do the same with smartphones, which are engineered to hold the user's attention.
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At Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska, these policies work in tandem to cut down on phone-induced distractions, limit the time students spend outside the classroom, and prevent student conflicts and fighting.
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Maryland poured investments into its Cyber Workforce Accelerator program last year. The latest grant funding shows that the state’s focus on inclusiveness in advancing technology careers is not limited to cybersecurity.
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