K-12

A cybersecurity breach in July may have exposed the names, Social Security numbers, student ID numbers or other education records or more than a decade's worth of college and high school students in Colorado.

The two-week summer program was designed to give students from various backgrounds the opportunity to collaborate on medical device prototype creation with the guidance of established innovators in the mechanical engineering industry.

There are many definitions of artificial intelligence, and it’s been embedded in software for years, but recent advances carry new potential to personalize education, tutor students and automate aspects of school operation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Given a massive influx of personal devices in the years since COVID-19, schools are making more use of asset-management systems to keep track of inventory and plan ahead for technology audits.

The public school system's CIO Anuraag Sharma's tenure coincided with cyber attacks targeting file-transfer software MOVEit, learning management software from Illuminate Education and a personnel information application.

According to a national survey of over 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds by research firm Big Village, 44 percent of them said they're likely to use AI to do their schoolwork for them, while 60 percent consider that cheating.

A survey of students and educators at both high school and college levels found less then half of them think AI has had a positive impact on student learning, although educators seem more optimistic than students.

Students are going to use their cellphones one way or another, and trying to ban them precludes their potential usefulness as PRTs — portable research tools — that can enrich lessons and engage students in novel ways.