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A technology specialist in Pennsylvania created a computer game for first- and second-grade students that asks them to be digital detectives, challenging them to spot the real story or fact among fake ones. -
A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to prompt an AI image generator, then work in groups to see what the image was missing.
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The settlement was a victory for students and advocates who have made complaints nationwide over colleges lending their names to online courses that have few ties to campus faculty or typical university oversight.
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Student cellphone use is a hot topic of conversation across the state, and the state Board of Education has adopted guidance urging districts to develop policies to restrict student phone use.
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TeacherServer offers hundreds of secure, generative AI education tools, all built by Dr. Zafer Unal, a professor at the University of South Florida. He created the site this summer, in less than three months.
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The policy change comes after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order mandating that school systems devise ways to create cellphone-free environments at school.
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The amount is in addition to $184,000 awarded to the state last year, on top of $222,000 granted in late 2020 as part of an initiative to protect children from lead in drinking water in Hawaii.
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The federal government is alleging that Georgia Tech and its research arm didn’t follow enforcement of cybersecurity rules stated within U.S. Department of Defense contracts.
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The 2024 state exams are only the second batch to follow the implementation of the state's Next Generation Learning Standards, established after revisions from the controversial Common Core curriculum.
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A task force in Louisiana has released guidelines for safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence in schools, with officials saying they are creating programs that use it to help with math and reading.
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The University of Maryland Extension in Frederick, Md., is looking to expand practical research into cover crops with the goal of better understanding how farmers learn from each other.
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In a new report, market researchers said the use of metaverse technology in education will increase greatly in the next four years. The industry, they estimated, will rise from $3.9 billion to $19.3 billion by 2028.
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Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District in Iowa is not one of a growing number of districts nationwide banning mobile device or headphone use, but it does have a few rules regarding such devices.
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The Quincy School District will add the use of artificial intelligence to the list of online uses subject to district policy, beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University have recently been awarded a federal grant to support research of a device to measure lung health using a smartphone.
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The University of Alabama is embracing AI in the classroom with the Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative, which guides faculty on incorporating the technology in the classroom.
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A growing number of districts across the country have enacted, or plan to enact, prohibitions on students using their mobile phones during school hours starting this academic year.
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The pandemic forced universities to stop requiring standardized tests and now students must grapple with a different SAT dilemma: Is it worth the time and energy to take the test?
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The newly available Civics Collection has videos, lessons and interactive media for instructors to embed into their curricula, or for students to learn more about civics independently.
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Students request to use the restroom, visit the library or leave class through an application on Chromebooks, and teachers are able to approve or deny hall pass requests from the same application.
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Opportunity Machine, in an effort to bridge the gap between academics and innovation, is offering students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette hands-on experience with local tech startups.
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