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Council Bluffs Community School District will spend funding from Google on an autonomous robot, new welding booths and specialized Project Lead The Way engineering devices and IT hardware for interdisciplinary courses. -
Giving a talk at a private research university in Pennsylvania, the co-founder of Apple said it's important for AI to cite its sources and for students to be able to prove their knowledge on in-person assessments.
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A donation from Mark Zuckerberg's technology company Meta will go toward converting buildings on Capitol Mall into mixed-use facilities, including a dedicated AI Center and a new School of Public Affairs.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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The school district in Burlington, Iowa, has expanded its COVID-19 data sharing dashboard, reconfiguring it to more closely resemble a previous version before the state issued data sharing guidance.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is seeking information from state education agencies about how they are working to protect the privacy of both K-12 and college students amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dickinson College will host a panel of experts to discuss environmental racism and justice in Pennsylvania, which has been deeply impacted by fracking, coal mining and other producers of greenhouse gas.
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Armed with a recent $1 million federal grant, Chaminade University in Hawaii can now offer scholarships for any students who are planning to select a major in data science, bolstering the discipline.
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Ashland Public Library is now offering a Design, Create, Play Kit to children. The new kit is part of an initiative to engage students in building Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) skills.
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As a weird fall of distance learning unfolds, new data shows a majority of schoolchildren in Southern California’s metro areas are using computers issued by school districts — not devices belonging to their families.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is getting involved in workforce development at the college level for drone use, choosing Northwestern Michigan College for its Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Program.
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Tens of thousands of students in Central New York — and millions across the state and nation — had to pivot quickly in the spring from in-school instruction to distance learning when COVID-19 forced schools to close.
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Some school districts have had to push back reopening dates or cancel classes as a result of the cyberattacks against their systems.
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Immigrant students often have work commitments outside class, and they may need additional language support. Giving them equal access to technology during remote learning might not be enough.
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At UT-Rio Grande Valley, administrators spent a tense summer preparing for the fall semester while local coronavirus rates spiked, the area spiraled into further economic depression and debate raged across the nation about how to safely send college students back to school.
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A different sort of virus — ransomware — has taken down the computer system at the Newhall School District, forcing a shutdown of distance learning for some 6,000 elementary school students, officials said.
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The Orangeburg County, S.C., School District has developed a mobile application that can link its students and their families with telehealth services, doing so by partnering with local facilities and nonprofit groups.
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The remote learning models adopted by many Michigan school districts this year are creating challenges for parents, particularly if they are single parents with jobs that don’t allow them to work from home.
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Two students at Algonquin Regional High School in Northboro, Mass., have created a free online educational assistance tool called Aptitutor, which is essentially an online tutoring service they built at the end of May.
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Stressed by too many mandates and not enough time, Michelle DeBlois says she seriously considered leaving teaching until she collaborated with an Auburn teacher to develop an app that eased their literacy workload.
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After the district scrambled this summer to provide Internet to families to support its remote learning model, a school panel on Thursday voted to ask city leaders to look into bringing municipal broadband to Worcester.
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Plus, Philadelphia names the recipients for its 2020 Innovation Grants program, the Seattle Channel wins a prestigious award for excellence in government broadcasting, and the National Day of Civic Hacking is here.
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