Education

A proposed piece of legislation would have the Connecticut State Department of Education select an AI tool for educators and students to use, and create a professional learning program to teach them how to use it.

Starting this fall, Niagara County Community College will offer an electronics technology program that will cover circuits, equipment, data analysis and applied electrical theory.

Texas Tech University was one of 18 U.S. institutions to receive a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, with which it will build out the West Texas Cyber Workforce Development Consortium.

As schools and universities make more use of artificial intelligence-driven tools, some ed-tech developers are seeking input from educators and implementing policies related to ethical use and data privacy.

Partnership with ImpactEd for professional development software is the latest step in Montana’s ongoing plan to address low math and reading scores for elementary and middle school students.

Computers and artificial intelligence will help score open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), with "low-confidence" scores to be reassessed by humans.

The Colorado State Board of Education approved an innovation zone to accommodate the Colorado Springs School of Technology, with planned courses in cybersecurity, AI, apps and games, robotics and computers.

A former employee of a private liberal-arts college in Oregon has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence regarding a cyber attack in February 2023. The college individually notified those affected more than a year later.

Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere, so we might as well face it with our eyes open. It brings with it an abundance of potential use cases and risks alike, as job displacement is the flip side of efficiency.

Fairfax High School in Los Angeles is the latest school to deal with inappropriate images that may have been created by AI, following similar incidents at Beverly Hills and Laguna Beach schools earlier this year.

Red River High School awarded letterman jackets this week to a handful of students who won North Dakota's Cyber Madness High School competition in tasks like encryption, decryption and fending off a cyber attack.

A public university in Las Vegas canceled classes this week after a ransomware attack targeted its student and staff portal for online classes, course materials, campus email, payroll and other systems.

The EvolveMe platform from American Student Assistance now includes activities for resume writing, job interviews, writing code professionally, and finding internships, careers and ways to pay for college.

A multimillion-dollar collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and a Japanese university will aim to advance the research and impact of artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania and beyond.

A new Georgia bill could create changes to Bibb County School District classrooms, and how students use social media, though the district won't comment on the legislation yet.

Thousands of students filed into Wolff Municipal Stadium Monday morning to observe the long-awaited solar eclipse as part of a watch party hosted by the Witte Museum and DoSeum.

Aiming to establish a strategy for using and teaching artificial intelligence, the Perelman School of Medicine named Marylyn Ritchie the first vice dean of artificial intelligence and computing.

In a presentation Monday at the National School Boards Association conference in New Orleans, Lawrence Public Schools officials explained how building a private fiber network improved digital equity and saved money.