Education

DeKalb County School District in Georgia has installed an AI weapons detection system called Evolv Express at entrances to schools and given all staff alert badges that will allow them to trigger lockdowns.

A public university in Louisiana says a cyber attack in February did not compromise personal identifiable information, although a cybersecurity firm found 150 gigabytes of the university's data on the dark web in April.

Since discovering a cyber attack on its network last month, a public university in Kentucky removed updates on the matter from its website but said it's keeping its network closed and working with vendors.

Emphasizing the importance of cyber-range simulations and hands-on training, experts from Cyberbit said in a webinar on Thursday that such exercises are becoming part of university strategies to meet workforce demands.

The Jacobson Institute at Grand View University announced a partnership with the technology training company SkillStorm to fit regional workers for available positions in growing industry. SkillStorm has similar programs at southern schools.

According to CoSN's 2023 State of EdTech Leadership report, demographics for IT leaders in K-12 haven't changed much in the past 10 years, and most of them are white, male, and between the ages of 40 and 59.

To fill in-demand positions for data-science professionals, business leaders in Salt Lake City's burgeoning tech industry are working with the state board of education to integrate more data science into K-12 curricula.

A public community college in Washington received $1 million from the federal Community Project Fund to enhance its mechatronics and automotive programs and build an advanced manufacturing program.

As artificial intelligence-driven translation technologies advance, teachers are starting to warm up to using translation tools such as Waverly Labs’ Forum interpretation app for classroom discussions.

The FirstNet school safety system, to launch at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year, will allow school personnel to silently contact emergency responders by mobile app or wearable panic buttons.

Derrick Day, a 17-year-old at Westminster High School who is blind, created an app called LDOT (long-distance object tracker) that uses artificial intelligence to verbally identify objects that appear in a phone's camera.

Portales and Clovis municipal school districts have installed new security technologies such as the Rave Panic app, an AI security camera system called ZeroEyes, network upgrades and other measures in case of emergencies.

A public school district in southern Louisiana is working with state police to identify the origin of a security failure July 25. The district has yet to learn how much and what kind of data may have been obtained.

A new resource from the nonprofit Internet Safety Labs, available to anyone, provides safety ratings based on risk assessments of 1,722 of the most commonly used mobile applications in K-12 schools.

The University of Arizona's West EJ Center will put a $10 million federal grant toward rebates and tax credits to make energy-efficient appliances and solar panels affordable for community groups and other institutions.

Georgia Tech and Southern Regional Technical College are among many partners on a $65 million grant to build a technical workforce training incubator and talent pipeline for autonomous and AI technologies.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles fed GPT-3 a battery of tests, and it solved about 80 percent of given problems correctly, compared to just below 60 percent of the 40 undergrads who participated.

With a mission to help future first-generation college students, the nonprofit AVID is giving member schools access to Packback’s AI-enabled writing tool, because writing can be a gateway to more advanced coursework.