Education
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Seven years after a cyber attack cost her North Carolina school district $1.3 million, a retired CTO shared stories and tips from the 42-day recovery process at the Future of Education Technology Conference. -
AI agents are customizable tools with more decision-making power than chatbots. They have the potential to automate more tasks, and some schools have implemented them for administrative and educational purposes.
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Opening this fall in Arizona, Unbound Academy will use AI to condense core academic lessons to two hours a day, followed by workshops, mentorship sessions and student-led projects, per the school’s charter application.
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Part of Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal would cover tuition at any public community college in New York for adults studying fields such as advanced manufacturing, technology, engineering, AI or cybersecurity.
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Starting in May, a college in central Pennsylvania will offer a five-course,15-credit online program focused on emerging AI trends, online learning practices, and strategies to improve student engagement and outcomes.
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The university's new policy requires anyone who wants to send a mass email to file a request to be evaluated by the UI Office of Strategic Communication, which will then use written standards to determine its validity.
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The idea that any latest technology will change education forever is a familiar one. Artificial intelligence’s adaptability and expertise make it different, experts said, but further reflection is needed.
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After multiple years of work, along with some setbacks, students in Centaurus High School's physics club are ready to build a space plane with a goal of contributing to climate change research.
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The Baker School District is one of hundreds nationwide and in other countries affected by a computer breach that accessed students’ names, birthdates and some other information.
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Schools and districts comprise 645 of the 707 participants selected to receive funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s three-year, $200 million Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program.
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In the face of rising absenteeism and discipline issues, some schools have found esports can motivate students academically, provide sportsmanship training and give them a more positive outlook on education.
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Many schools struggle to keep up with artificial intelligence and navigate between third-party solutions. Working with Pathify has helped the College of Eastern Idaho aggregate numerous information sources in one dashboard.
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The lab is part of city officials’ push to engage students across Atlanta through esports programming as competitive video gaming has exploded in popularity.
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If approved by the college's accrediting body, the Computer Information Systems (CIS) program will become the school's second bachelor's degree offering.
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Digital revolutions in education and countless job markets are happening concurrently, and some teachers see in these changes the potential to train future generations for a new era of digital citizenship.
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A new brief from the U.S. Department of Education outlines five key suggestions for the future of artificial intelligence in higher education. Partnerships, it said, can aid in creating solutions.
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By creating “fake” versions of their data to interface with ed-tech vendors, school districts can limit what kinds of personally identifiable information those companies have in the event they experience a data breach.
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Although Ridgefield school officials initially thought the district wasn't affected by the PowerSchool data breach impacting educational institutions nationwide, they're now saying that's not the case.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds used her eighth Condition of the State address Tuesday to call for a statewide policy requiring school districts to restrict the use of cellphones in the classroom.
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While technology has made teaching more complicated in some ways, a speaker at the Future of Education Technology Conference this week offered a handful of simple ways technology can help teachers de-stress.
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As COVID-19 pandemic relief funds expire, a new State Educational Technology Directors Association report outlines a path toward permanent funding for K-12 universal connectivity and related digital access measures.
