Education

Now quite acquainted with generative AI tools, educators at several U.S. universities have found them most helpful for guiding class discussions, fleshing out lesson plans and teaching about AI as an emerging technology.

In Europe, where the SAT’s new format was implemented this year, schools reported smooth sailing with test administration and proctoring. Tests will still be administered on-site, and only on approved devices.

As students nationwide begin the new school year, our September ed-tech issue looks at how artificial intelligence is impacting learning and efforts to build the next generation of IT experts.

Pittsburgh Public Schools requires facilities without air conditioning to move to remote learning when the heat index exceeds 90 degrees, and 38 of its 54 schools did so this week due to a heat wave hitting the city.

A suburban public school district in Pennsylvania has restored Internet connectivity after disconnecting its network last week due to an unspecified security threat, the details of which are still not public.

The University of Michigan is requiring all students and staff to reset their passwords by Sept. 12 after officials discovered a "significant security threat" and took their network offline for a couple days.

Some education experts say focused tutoring will be needed to address learning loss that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, and technological advances such as AI chatbots make tutoring more accessible than ever.

The education software company Curriculum Associates will host the first of eight one-hour weekly sessions on Sept. 13. Teachers can register for free and receive recordings if they cannot attend live.

Tools like ChatGPT are being heralded as a critical underpinning of a 21st-century education or feared as the death knell of creativity. Either way, educators increasingly realize they can’t ignore AI.

A public community college in Pennsylvania this month will offer a selection of 12- and 14-week, in-person courses on topics such as hardware and operating systems, networking concepts, security and troubleshooting.

Carlisle Area School District shut down its Internet system Sept. 1 to investigate a possible security breach, although the district's phones and website remained operational.

Attorneys for a former student and former employee alleged in federal court that the university violated the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act by not doing more to prevent a data breach.

A San Francisco company's new online note-taking program uses artificial intelligence to help students capture key moments in lectures across subjects and concentrate on listening instead of transcribing.

Responding to pressure from disability advocates, the company’s digital study guides and on-demand tutoring services will soon have closed captioning, interpreting services, transcripts and other accommodations.

A lawsuit from the Livingston Parish School Board against two social media giants, their parent companies and two Internet service providers alleges the intentional addictiveness of those platforms has harmed students.

Advances in artificial intelligence represent an opportunity to get students thinking about how to use the technology to solve problems, and what skills are disposable versus essential for the future.

A 45,000-square-foot renovation at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is laying the groundwork for an interdisciplinary facility to be called the Center for Cybersecurity Research, Education & Advanced Training.

Common Sense Education's Digital Well-Being program offers free videos for students in grades 6-12 about identifying tech-related stressors, developing healthy habits and understanding how digital media can affect them.