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Public-sector institutions ranging from local government to schools and universities are introducing artificial intelligence tools and policy in various fashions, to fit their service and mission.
Read full articleArtificial intelligence is moving into the corners of industry that no horizontal platform has ever been able to reach: the scheduling logic of professional sports leagues, the procurement inbox of a global manufacturer, the permit workflows of a city government, the dispatch board of a plumbing franchise at 2 a.m. The companies doing it most […]
While U.S. leaves AI policy to states and local districts, Norway is banning most AI use in schools and funding physical textbooks, Poland is launching AI labs, and UAE is mandating AI be taught as early as kindergarten.
Norway's AI ban for young students may influence broader European educational policies, impacting EdTech markets and investor strategies. The post Norwegian government bans AI use in schools for children aged 6 to 13 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Plus, the “Obamalisk” opens.
A school district in eastern Pennsylvania will install a closed-structure artificial intelligence system to handle repetitive operational tasks for the Pupil Services Department, which manages special education programs.
A survey by the Center for Democracy & Technology found that 85 percent of teachers used AI in the 2024-25 school year, but only about half received some training or information about AI from someone at their school.
The demand from 29 members comes as the Department of Education is updating its guidance for how teachers should use the technology in their work and classrooms.
Dr Deirdre Hughes says the issue of chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities needs to be addressed Alan Milburn’s interim review into young people not in education, employment or training lays bare what those of us working in careers support services have long observed: this is a system failure, not a failure of young people (‘A record of failure’: what’s in the first part of Alan Milburn’s Neet report?, 28 May). Milburn rightly identifies the deep structural dysfunction that has left more than 1 million young people locked out of work and learning – and the stark imbalance between the £25 spent on benefits for every £1 directed at employment support. But the review’s framing of this primarily as a welfare and employment problem risks missing a deeper structural deficit: the chronic underinvestment in high-quality, impartial careers guidance across schools, colleges and communities. Continue reading...
