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The nonprofit believes preparing students for a digital future is less about expanding access to devices than about ensuring technology use is grounded in purpose, understanding and meaningful outcomes. -
After transitioning from Fairfield University’s leader of enterprise systems to director of IT strategy and enterprise architecture for the state of Connecticut, Armstrong will return to higher-ed leadership in January.
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To prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to write and do homework for them, many professors are returning to pre-technology assessments and having students finish essays in class.
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California’s education budget is on track to offer one-time funding that schools could use to bolster cybersecurity. At the same time, new state laws are granting schools more autonomy in regulation of technology.
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An annual competition gives students a chance to earn scholarship money, and industry professionals a chance to find workers and to highlight the national shortage of automotive technicians.
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A private research university in Georgia agreed to pay damages to students and an instructor, as well as implement new data security measures, in order to resolve a lawsuit over a hack in February 2023.
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After the state replaced Houston ISD's superintendent and school board last year, open records requests to the district more than doubled. Some parents want the district to bring back an online dashboard of attendance data.
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The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences Small Business Innovation Research program offers funding for the development of ed-tech tools by companies with fewer than 500 employees.
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From hornbooks to projectors, televisions, ARPANET and remote learning, history is full of technological innovations that changed education, and we have something to learn from them.
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Boston City Council intends to seek more information from school officials about a report on the city's surveillance technologies, including which areas of school buildings are filmed and how the footage is used.
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As part of its new Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, the university will offer a first-of-its-kind master’s program to prepare nurses for leadership roles in health care technology.
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Being designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, the University at Albany offers a scholarship for cybersecurity students willing to work for the Department of Defense after graduation.
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A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.
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In partnership with UK ed-tech company Avantis Education, Los Angeles Unified School District has deployed over 16,000 virtual reality headsets for in-class and extracurricular instruction.
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Westville School District No. 2 has replaced its old diesel school buses with 15 electric, emissions-free models from IC Bus. The district purchased the vehicles with grants through the EPA's Clean School Bus Program.
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Otsego Public Schools in Michigan is notifying community members that an unauthorized party accessed data on the district's network including Social Security numbers, taxpayer ID numbers and other personal information.
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Through an initiative called the Michigan Electric Vehicle Jobs Academy, state leaders reviewed 400 courses at community colleges across Michigan to ensure they meet employer needs for a workforce that can build EVs.
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Hands-on learning experiences with technology, such as robotics kits, 3D printers and programmable drones, could become increasingly important for students as future jobs require collaboration with emerging technologies.
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Parents are suing Lancaster Country Day School, a private preparatory school in Pennsylvania, over its alleged failure to report or take corrective action in response to AI-generated deepfakes of over 50 students.
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Thanks to grants secured by the Green Team at Chippewa Falls High School in Wisconsin, the Hope Village community center and its 10 tiny homes will install a 40 kilowatt photovoltaic system.
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With grant funding to implement Project Lead the Way curricula, Northridge High School in Colorado started an aerospace engineering course to expose students to another career option in a growing engineering field.
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