Education

Boston City Council intends to seek more information from school officials about a report on the city's surveillance technologies, including which areas of school buildings are filmed and how the footage is used.

As part of its new Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, the university will offer a first-of-its-kind master’s program to prepare nurses for leadership roles in health care technology.

Being designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, the University at Albany offers a scholarship for cybersecurity students willing to work for the Department of Defense after graduation.

A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.

In partnership with UK ed-tech company Avantis Education, Los Angeles Unified School District has deployed over 16,000 virtual reality headsets for in-class and extracurricular instruction.

Westville School District No. 2 has replaced its old diesel school buses with 15 electric, emissions-free models from IC Bus. The district purchased the vehicles with grants through the EPA's Clean School Bus Program.

Otsego Public Schools in Michigan is notifying community members that an unauthorized party accessed data on the district's network including Social Security numbers, taxpayer ID numbers and other personal information.

Through an initiative called the Michigan Electric Vehicle Jobs Academy, state leaders reviewed 400 courses at community colleges across Michigan to ensure they meet employer needs for a workforce that can build EVs.

Hands-on learning experiences with technology, such as robotics kits, 3D printers and programmable drones, could become increasingly important for students as future jobs require collaboration with emerging technologies.

Parents are suing Lancaster Country Day School, a private preparatory school in Pennsylvania, over its alleged failure to report or take corrective action in response to AI-generated deepfakes of over 50 students.

Thanks to grants secured by the Green Team at Chippewa Falls High School in Wisconsin, the Hope Village community center and its 10 tiny homes will install a 40 kilowatt photovoltaic system.

With grant funding to implement Project Lead the Way curricula, Northridge High School in Colorado started an aerospace engineering course to expose students to another career option in a growing engineering field.

A webinar this week by the nonprofit CAST explained how AI tools might help students with conditions such as dyslexia, ADHD and autism strengthen critical skills, such as time management, comprehension and communication.

Set to take effect Feb. 18, Los Angeles Unified School District's ban on Internet-enabled devices will allow students to use them before and after school but not during the day, including lunch.

Major new projects approved last week by the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees include an 80,000-square-foot, four-story applied research lab with space for interdisciplinary research and computing.

The annual Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis recognized the University of Wisconsin-Stout's Holly Yuan with the Visionary Academic Leadership Award for her work building the university's cybersecurity program.

Thanks to a new telehealth platform at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, patients with opioid use disorder can administer methadone doses at home while remaining under the supervision of a care team.

As increasingly sophisticated education tools use AI to do cognitive labor, some professors are concerned that new features are making it harder for teachers to encourage students to use AI in helpful ways.