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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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House Bill 485 would require students to keep electronic devices out of the classroom, with some exceptions, and require schools to adopt policies to govern Internet use and teach students about hazards of social media.
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Students from upstate New York gathered this month at the University of Albany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity to share visions of artificial intelligence in emergency response.
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Winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge will attend the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, showing off app concepts they built using an Apple-developed coding language.
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A $50 million donation from an alumnus will establish the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, which will be housed in a new building and likely include new classes and degree programs.
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Google's new “AI Opportunity Fund" aims to teach 1 million Americans AI skills by providing grants to partner organizations, which will cover a new AI course offered online through Coursera.
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The new Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment gauges how colleges and universities are making use of generative AI tools, as well as their levels of investment in governance and infrastructure.
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The Reading Readiness Dashboard, recently launched by the state Department of Education, allows the public to view literacy data on who is reading below, at, or above grade level in schools across the state.
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To prompt class discussions about the potential consequences of artificial intelligence, teachers can draw from a long history of literature on the subject, from classic novels to short stories and memoirs.
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The Louisiana Department of Education's new AI task force is developing policy recommendations for K-12, and the state Board of Regents voted to create its own committee to study the use of AI in higher education.
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Kanawha County Schools could receive as many as 28 or 29 battery-powered buses in the coming years, but will continue to buy and maintain diesel buses as well.
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In preparing young people to enter a professional environment of rapidly evolving technology, one of the best things educators can do for them is teach them how to explore and learn about new tools on their own.
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Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare’s Project Filter applauds the use of technology for intervention measures, but implores school leaders to provide alternatives to suspension and address teen nicotine addiction.
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Since it began in 2019, the program has been providing course training for three defined career pathways: aviation, aviation mechanics and drones. It does so by teaching aeronautical science and various FAA policies.
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The era of standardization in education might be coming to a close, given the potential of artificial intelligence tools to analyze student metrics in real time and create personalized, dynamic learning pathways.
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A handful of districts in Massachusetts will use money from the state’s Accelerating Clean Transportation School Bus Fleet Deployment Program to deploy new buses and charging stations.
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In an effort to use remaining ESSER funds, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction is encouraging K-12 organizations that offer cybersecurity and artificial intelligence instruction to apply for grants.
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New York state confirmed a significant 10-year investment in Empire AI, an artificial intelligence computing center at the University at Buffalo that will involve six other colleges and universities.
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Now that Florida state law has given school districts the green light to restrict cellphone use in classrooms, school boards across the Tampa Bay area are deciding how to approach the issue.
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