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Instructors are evaluating how artificial intelligence impacts the main goals of education and adjusting their teaching accordingly. This leads to conversations about critical thinking and changing workforce expectations. -
The Parents and Kids Safe AI Act would mandate age assurance, limit data use for minors, require child-safety audits and expand parental controls. It revises a similar, unsuccessful bill from 2025.
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University of North Dakota President Andrew Armacost has announced the "moonshot" goal for UND to launch or take steps to launch four new companies based on research done at the university.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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District leaders say the pandemic-era practice of giving a Chromebook to each of the district's 160,000 students is too expensive to sustain, and they need to reallocate money being spent on them for HVAC upgrades.
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The university launched a new center this month aimed at collecting data and developing intentional, research-supported educational tools based on how students and educators are using AI in classrooms.
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This fall, Washtenaw Intermediate School District in Michigan will use state funds to expand career and technical education, particularly drone aviation, as well as mechatronics and construction engineering.
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Federal investigators found that a Washington school district complied with program rules when it used Emergency Connectivity Fund dollars to purchase Chromebooks, despite a state audit alleging record-keeping issues.
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Schoolhouse, a nonprofit established by the founder of Khan Academy, worked with experts in civil discourse to launch a new program that helps students have respectful discussions on controversial topics.
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The K-12 courseware company Edmentum has added trade-specific online career and technical education courses for middle and high school students from Interplay Learning to its platform.
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The waiver would specifically target courses in engineering mechanics, electricity manufacturing, semiconductor fundamentals, and other technical fields where Ohio is experiencing workforce shortages.
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The first four-year degree offered by the Washington college will focus on project- and work-based learning and branch out from traditional coding into topics like cybersecurity, data science and app development.
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Leslie Eaves, director of project-based learning at the nonprofit Southern Regional Education Board, recommends having students show their work in brainstorming, outlining, drafting and improving drafts of writing.
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Intended as a low-risk way to test drive generative artificial intelligence, the platform allows teachers to create content, set up AI-based classroom activities and view dashboards that track student progress.
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Research and development for educational technology should involve a continuous loop of teachers providing feedback, developers implementing changes in real time and researchers studying the impact.
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Before students can become competent at editing and refining writing produced by generative artificial intelligence, they need to learn how to write clearly and convincingly as themselves. To do that, they need practice.
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A presentation by the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative this week introduced ninth and 10th graders to potential jobs associated with broadband, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
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The North Carolina district learned earlier this year that a data breach of the software company PowerSchool impacted an estimated 150,000 current and former students and 28,000 current and former staff members.
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The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office estimated that 31.4 percent of student applications in 2024 were fraudulent, coming from bots or AI agents being used to steal financial aid money.
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An English professor from Kennesaw State University argues that intentional use of artificial intelligence, as opposed to passively or reflexively accepting its outputs, can enhance the writing process.
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A cyber criminal who successfully extorted the software company PowerSchool for ransom in December 2024 did not delete the stolen data as promised. Now the same culprit appears to be threatening individual districts.
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In a national survey of 501 college students, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that more than 40 percent had a condition the ADA might recognize as a disability. Some said digital tools aren't meeting their needs.
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