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Many educators and college faculty are OK with students consulting ChatGPT for help on admissions essays, but chatbots can't be a replacement for a student's own voice, subjective experience and thoughts.

Some New York Board of Regents members have said they want students to be able to meet their math requirement by programming robots or learning coding languages, rather than repeatedly failing algebra.

Rather than simply adding language about ChatGPT to her syllabus, a media-history professor at Cal State Northridge is teaching students about AI chatbots by incorporating them directly into interactive lessons.

Jefferson County school officials say there were “implementation issues” with software used to determine solutions for a major bus driver shortage. Classes were canceled for more than a week after the first day of school.

An ongoing education equity deals with a policy whereby researchers, in order to gain access to private education data, must agree not to release information from the data or testify about it without advance permission.

Research published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports found that ChatGPT got a similar or higher average grades than students in 12 of 32 courses, with students outperforming AI in math and economics.

Officials at a school district in Minnesota believe a cyber attack in April was caused by a staff member either clicking on a bad link or reusing a password for their district account that they use for some other account.

CoSN board chair Diane Doersch, also senior IT director for Digital Promise, says ed-tech leaders were relieved at the White House’s recent announcement, but school districts need to enact policies and train staff.

The master’s program, available through the digital learning platform Noodle, will train students to create business strategies that mitigate risk and protect organizational data against cyber attacks.

A school district in North Carolina uses Here Comes the Bus, a free online bus-tracking system that allows families to check their child’s school bus routes, real-time location and actual arrival times.

After learning in July that an unauthorized party claimed to possess sensitive data taken from the university's systems, officials contacted the FBI and hired outside global forensics experts.

A handful of English classes developed at the University of Colorado Boulder in recent years combine literary studies with data science, challenging students to learn how to code and then analyze literature using data.

The University of Missouri will open a new lab in 2024 to familiarize students with technologies involved in smart manufacturing, such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain and robotics.

An annual survey by the ed-tech software company Instructure concluded that assessments to evaluate learning are here to stay, but educators want real-time data and tools that can integrate assessments into content.

While recent security updates prevent random adults from accessing student information, the schedule-sharing app Saturn has some parents and educators worried about how it tracks students and collects data.

Baltimore County Public Schools has been sending students to its virtual learning program as a disciplinary measure, but some experts and parents say those students need more in-person support, not less.

The University of Michigan is embracing generative artificial intelligence by providing a custom AI platform to students and staff, including a ChatGPT-like chatbot and a tool to query in-house data sets.