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One of the key lessons from Florida Virtual School’s collaboration with the AI-enabled data platform Doowii was the importance of spending time with users to understand their needs and limits. -
New Mexico schools are part of a nationwide push to curb phone use in classrooms, driven by teacher concerns about disruption and growing worries about record daily screen time.
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The University at Albany's embrace of IBM's artificial intelligence hardware and expertise is paying quick dividends for researchers in academic departments across the school.
The CDG/CDE AWS Champions Awards honor AWS customers who are setting new standards for innovation in the public sector.
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Mt. Diablo Unified School District in California last year spent $50 million on an energy savings project including HVAC systems. Glitches have forced teachers to wear winter coats as some classrooms dip below 50 degrees.
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At the nation's second-largest school system, smartphones can be used on buses to school but not during class, lunch or breaks. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said most teachers and students have embraced the policy.
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A North Carolina school district wants the state attorney general to sue the software company PowerSchool over a data breach in December that affected school staff and the Social Security numbers of 910 charter students.
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One of the first such positions in the U.S., SJSU's AI librarian will manage digital assets, develop technology resources and promote services related to artificial intelligence at the university's academic library.
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A nearly 25,000-square-foot addition to the university's Transportation Research Institute will include three battery laboratories, auxiliary support areas, a substation and a facility for battery cell abuse testing.
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Some school districts have begun using AI to help write RFPs while vendors use it to submit as many bids as possible, but this has generated some concerns about bias, inaccuracies or generally low-quality responses.
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Seattle used funds from a technology levy to purchase a new digital curriculum, Illustrative Mathematics, which focuses on conceptual understanding rather than facts and memorization.
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Leaders at Adobe, NVIDIA and Intel share their aspirations and intentions for a recently announced partnership for AI education and workforce development through the California State University System.
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A planned bioprocessing and industrial innovation center at Kansas State University will allow researchers and corporate partners to develop pilot-scale countermeasures for a broad range of emerging zoonotic diseases.
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North Carolina's largest public school district is reconsidering the possibility of remote learning in lieu of canceling school due to weather, as long as teachers have notice to prepare when a storm is coming.
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Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School students do virtual learning up to four times a year, sometimes in place of a snow day, because learning to work over Zoom or Teams is part of their education.
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AugmentED, the latest "moonshot" program from the nonprofit Advanced Education Research and Development Fund, will focus on how new tools and approaches to teaching with artificial intelligence can transform education.
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Using student population data on factors like age, sex, years in school, race and ethnicity, researchers used artificial intelligence to help counselors understand which groups might benefit from additional resources.
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A professor's video for her African American studies course at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University inspired a hashtag that became a repository for educational content from other Black creators.
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Through Columbus State University's partnership with the new Maneuver Innovation Lab at Fort Moore, Georgia, robotics and engineering students have the opportunity to research and develop new technology.
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A new large language model out of China purports to exceed ChatGPT's reasoning powers at a fraction of the cost. This reinforces artificial intelligence as the key technological frontier for education and other sectors.
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North Carolina's largest school district will soon deploy the RAVE panic button app, which can give a user's location to 911, notify school staff and make critical information available to first responders.
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Cal State’s deputy vice-chancellor of academic and student affairs, its chief information officer, and a San Francisco State University anthropology professor take different stances on a $16.9 million AI initiative.
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