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New guidance and a national artificial intelligence action plan promote utilizing the technology in education. Some leaders, however, said resources levels must catch up for those strategies to be effective. -
Methuen Public School District and the city have filed court documents regarding control of and access to the district’s IT department and systems as a disagreement over merging city and school IT departments builds.
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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields.
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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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Researchers are working to eliminate the unknowns related to schools banning phones, trying to forge a clearer understanding of the advantages and limitations of those policies.
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Virginia Tech CISO Randy Marchany discusses his career, SANS training and all things cybersecurity at a major university in 2024.
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Lumen Technologies provided 900 miles of fiber to link public schools in New Mexico to the new Statewide Education Network. It’s an effort to bridge the state’s digital divide with critical middle-mile infrastructure.
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The more we learn about the potential errors, biases and cybersecurity vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence tools, the clearer it becomes that education and caution will need to be priorities going forward.
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An artificial intelligence-focused masters of law degree program at the University of California, Berkeley, will teach students about regulations and legal issues that come with the development and use of the technology.
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Draft guidance from the Virginia Department of Education says cellphones should be turned off and stored away from the morning bell to dismissal, including lunch and time between class periods.
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Several Pennsylvania school districts are getting hit by extensive, time-consuming, anonymous requests for large volumes of information. Officials suspect non-local people are using an AI to auto-generate these requests.
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Weeks after a court ruling in July found the FCC's E-rate program unconstitutional, some legal experts say strong bipartisan support for E-rate and the other universal service programs could ensure their survival.
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Up to 40 percent of global students have to learn in a second language, limiting their educational outcomes. AI translators, chatbots and multilingual text-to-speech tools can help bridge the gap.
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Several K-12 school districts across Alabama are installing metal detectors, X-ray machines and other weapons-detection systems, as well as employing more school resource officers on campus.
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Starting this fall, Western Connecticut State University in Danbury will begin offering a master of science degree in artificial intelligence, with in-person classes focused on mathematics and computer science.
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A digital hall pass system at Lincoln Public Schools requires students to use a Chromebook application to ask to leave class, which teachers can approve and then see who is in and out of the room, why and for how long.
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The latest step in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plans to integrate AI into public operations across California is a partnership with NVIDIA intended to tailor college courses and professional development to industry needs.
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A few months into Baltimore County Public Schools' two-year contract with the virtual therapy app Talkspace, about 69 percent of surveyed students said they rated their therapists at least 4 out of 5 stars.
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School safeguards against technology abuses are probably lagging behind usage and youthful expertise. As school districts have been debating cell phones, the threat of artificial intelligence has moved up.
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Two major Texas universities will co-lead one of five SECURE (safeguarding the entire community of the U.S. research ecosystem) centers dedicated to protecting intellectual property from foreign access.
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Tech-savvy San Diego high school teacher Jen Roberts takes a proactive approach to showing her students the ins and outs of AI, which she said can prepare them for the future while improving their writing.
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