Education

With new access to endpoint security and anti-malware tools from the cybersecurity company Sophos, Boise State's Cyberdome program is offering enterprise-level cybersecurity services led by students to rural agencies with limited resources.

An apprenticeship program at Velocity Vehicle Group in the Los Angeles metro area is training workers to service heavy-duty electric vehicles. The training is partnered with similar educational opportunities at Rio Hondo College.

State Sen. Reginald Thomas sponsored a bill that would assign the Kentucky Department of Education to set guidelines for AI use in schools, monitor its impact, and train teachers, administrators and school board members.

Engineering students in Boston built a small, remote-controlled, robotic vessel with an underwater camera that can identify the invasive weed hydrilla, plot its location and relay coordinates to state scientists.

A public community college in Alabama is spending $30 million to double the size of its Advanced Technology Center to support aerospace, welding and manual machining programs.

The American Council on Education and 17 other education groups pressed the Federal Communications Commission to ensure Internet service providers can't throttle connection speeds or prices for particular content.

The bipartisan bill asks lawmakers to update the Digital Equity Act of 2021 to emphasize the importance of educating current and future workers on the basic principles and applications of artificial intelligence.

University researchers say AI has the potential to help find useful new substances, from better batteries to powerful drugs, if it can enable autonomous labs to perform experiments exponentially faster than humans.

The California School Boards Association recognized several Inland Empire districts for innovative programs related to technology skill-building, virtual training , online communities and environmental sustainability.

The Seattle Times asked readers for their opinions on schools restricting cellphone use, and among 140 responses, an overwhelming majority, mostly teachers and parents, approved of keeping phones out of the classroom.

Republican state senators argue that Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to replace gas-powered school buses by 2035 is too expensive for many districts to afford without significant impacts to their operating budgets.

First and second graders at Western Primary School in Indiana are piloting virtual reality games created by an assistant professor of computer science and informatics at Indiana University Kokomo.

The University of Texas at San Antonio will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the National DigiFoundry, a consortium that could enhance management of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.

More integrations, low-connectivity tools, small language models, an avalanche of resumes: This is not a Christmas wish list but a set of predictions for what generative AI will bring to education in the months ahead.

Two elementary school students in Southern California won honorable mention at this year's Congressional App Challenge Award for an app that can immediately notify family and emergency services of an active shooter.

Tupelo Middle School in Missouri has a robotics class that feeds into after-school programs that reach even more students, giving them not just technical knowledge but practice with hands-on problem-solving.

After shutting off its network earlier this month, a public school district in New Hampshire has regained many of its functions, inspected its devices and investigated the incident with its cyber insurance provider.

The district used Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) COVID-19 relief funds to buy Avantis Education ClassVR tools for 17 schools. The technology will be available to students this academic year.