Jennifer Jolly | Special to USA TODAY ‘Go, Bills!’: AI robot delivers commencement speech at Buffalo college A private university opted to have an artificially intelligent robot named Sophia speak at their graduation ceremonies. When you hear “AI” and “schools” in the same sentence, you might think ‘Wait a minute, isn’t that how kids cheat …
3-minute read If you think a TSA checkpoint is stressful, imagine how anxiety-producing it can be for a child with autism. With spring break season upon us, it’s a problem facing many families in New Jersey, the state with the highest rate of autism in the country. The Nutley-based Phoenix Center, a school for kids …
. Despite the rising popularity of artificial intelligence, it still has its shortcomings. The writing can be stilted and vague, and it may not always provide accurate information. The information it does provide lacks citations. We asked ChatGPT some of the questions asked Brevard Public Schools about the use of AI. Here’s how the much-debated …
Diana Alba Soular | Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative LAS CRUCES – A federal initiative helping more than 68,000 low-income homes in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District pay for the internet has begun winding down. That’s after Congress has not renewed funding for the pandemic-relief measure, known as the Affordable Connectivity Program. In New Mexico’s …
A MOM had the remaining $166 stolen from her money app account – leaving her with nothing. Charee Mobley, a middle school teacher from Fort Worth, Texas, was left with less than $200 to get herself and her 17-year-old daughter through the last two weeks of August. A mom had a nervy wait after her …
Jeff Gill | Guest Columnist I’m continuing on the question I last started with: Should school age students have access to their phones during school hours? Teachers and principals in general say no. Most school districts and each building has a policy of one sort or another about use of smartphones or internet devices during …
Groveport Madison schools still have no internet service nearly a week after a computer hack forced officials to shut down the entire system. Since the Dec. 5 incident, teachers have been instructing the district’s 6,000 students the old-fashioned way, with books and paper. The ransomware group BlackSuit hacked into security camera and printers at Groveport …
The UK Safer Internet Centre said it had received reports from schools about pupils using AI generators to create explicit photos. Experts at the organisation said such images – which legally constitute child sexual abuse material – might have harmful effects on youngsters, adding the pictures could be used for abuse or even blackmail. UKSIC …
A view of downtown from Hollywood with the Capitol Records tower and lots of smog in the foreground … [+] in February 1995 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Eisenberg/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images I often reflect on my elementary school days in Canton, Georgia. On any given morning, I was mostly concerned …
A school in Japan is turning to robots in a bid to tackle rising truancy rates. The school in Kumamoto, southwest Japan, will allow absent students to control telepresence robots in the classroom. Officials behind the initiative hope the setup will eventually encourage the students to return to school, the Mainichi newspaper reported. Starting in …