Preparing K-12 and higher education IT leaders for the exponential era
Education News
-
The company's new Advanced Phishing feature is tailored to identify the kinds of phishing emails that impersonate school officials, parents or vendors, and learns from real-world attacks to improve its accuracy. -
Six charter school operators this fall will receive a range of services for students with disabilities through an education service agency, including assistive technology and other devices, shared staff and training.
-
Professionals from Frederick Community College in Maryland travel to high schools and middle schools spreading the word about their field, giving students a chance to play operation games and use training devices.
More Stories
-
A nonprofit research organization is working with Florida Virtual School and the University of Florida to offer middle and high school students a certification for learning about how AI concepts intersect with math.
-
After voters declined to pass a larger ballot proposal last year, Helena Public Schools are asking voters to approve a smaller amount to replace aging laptops, desktops and teacher devices.
-
At the ASU+GSV AI Show, a former IES leader and those who have benefitted from its work discussed the value of education research and what to focus on when rebuilding ed-tech research systems.
-
A joint venture between several universities, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center is building computing capacity with investments expected to top $100 million over the next five years.
-
In a five-year partnership with the biomedical research company Leidos Inc., the university will develop artificial intelligence-powered tools to diagnose and treat ailments such as heart disease and cancer.
-
Student privacy expert Ross Lemke says schools need more FERPA training, better cybersecurity and careful vendor vetting to prevent doing a “potential lifetime of harm” by failing to protect their data.
-
The sheriff cited major errors in tickets and the inability of people to appeal their citations as reasons for cancelling the program, which flagged more than 407 paid violations per day, seven days a week.
-
The vice president for digital innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities says AI discussions and assignments are essential for preparing students to be competitive in the working world.
-
An official from the Washington Association of School Administrators says district leaders should consider time, money, content and expertise when deciding whether to build a custom chatbot in-house or hire outside help.
-
As bus drivers for Boston Public Schools got used to a new bus-tracking app, software allowed the district to collect and update real-time data on every bus route to make them more efficient.
-
An 11-week program invited students to Fiserv, a financial services company, after school on Tuesdays to experiment with and learn about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics.
-
Through internships with the Lackawanna County district attorney’s office, university students will work with detectives to extract and analyze cellphone data related to criminal cases.
-
Utah is one of the states leading the U.S. in artificial intelligence adoption at the K-12 level, which AI Education Specialist Matt Winters attributes to collaboration, infrastructure and a culture of innovation.
-
The state's Legislative Audit Council says USC misused $4,589 in grant money intended for computer labs, while the university says those watches are part of teaching and understanding Apple's technology ecosystem.
-
House Bill 120 would triple school district funding from $50 to $150 per student for Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, or P-TECHs, through which students can earn 60 college credits during high school.
-
Earlier this year, New Jersey awarded $1.5 million in grants to 10 school districts to incorporate artificial intelligence into teaching. Teachers say it's changing how they teach, acting sort of like an assistant.
-
K-12 cybersecurity leaders say AI can’t fully automate cybersecurity, cloud vendors are not the solution to data governance, teachers should not use unvetted apps, and student accounts need multifactor authentication.
-
Given an ed-tech market overrun with tools of varying, and sometimes unproven, effectiveness, school districts need to push vendors for evidence, outcome-based contracts and collaborative design.
Education Events
June 5, 2025
June 11, 2025
September 29, 2025
September 2025
September 2025
October 2025
October 21, 2025
November 20, 2025
November 2025
December 4-5, 2025
Maryland K-12 AI Leadership Conference
December 2025
