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Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals (Part One)

Adapt your skills and master essential tools to excel in an AI-powered world at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn.

November 4, 2024 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada – November 5, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada

Join Microsoft for this two-part event on Azure AI Fundamentals to:

  • Learn the core concepts and basics of AI.
  • Build an understanding of foundational AI workloads.
  • Discover how organizations are using AI to solve real-world challenges.
  • Find out how to use Azure AI services to build intelligent applications.

You’ll also explore the connection between machine learning models and AI capabilities, see examples of generative AI, and learn how to support the responsible use of AI. After completing this training, you’ll be eligible to take the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam at 50% off the exam price.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about AI and computer vision workloads and considerations when analyzing content.
  • Discover Azure machine learning principles for accelerating and automating workflows.
  • Gain insights into Azure natural language processing (NLP) capabilities like sentiment analysis, topic detection, language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.
  • Chat with Microsoft experts—ask questions and get answers to common challenges related to building intelligent applications.

Who should attend:

  • Software developers
  • Data engineers
  • Data scientists
  • AI practitioners and IT professionals

Technical level:

  • This is a foundational-level course.

Join Microsoft at an upcoming two-part AI Fundamentals event:
Delivery Language: English
Closed Captioning Language(s): English

 

REGISTER TODAY

 

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals event is open to the public and offered at no cost. Upon completion of the event, the exam is offered at a 50% discount off the exam rate. Prior to registering for this training, government employees must check with their employers to ensure their participation is permitted, and in accordance with, applicable policies and laws.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals (Part Two)

Adapt your skills and master essential tools to excel in an AI-powered world at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn.

November 4, 2024 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada – November 5, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada

Join Microsoft for this two-part event on Azure AI Fundamentals to:

  • Learn the core concepts and basics of AI.
  • Build an understanding of foundational AI workloads.
  • Discover how organizations are using AI to solve real-world challenges.
  • Find out how to use Azure AI services to build intelligent applications.

You’ll also explore the connection between machine learning models and AI capabilities, see examples of generative AI, and learn how to support the responsible use of AI. After completing this training, you’ll be eligible to take the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam at 50% off the exam price.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about AI and computer vision workloads and considerations when analyzing content.
  • Discover Azure machine learning principles for accelerating and automating workflows.
  • Gain insights into Azure natural language processing (NLP) capabilities like sentiment analysis, topic detection, language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.
  • Chat with Microsoft experts—ask questions and get answers to common challenges related to building intelligent applications.

Who should attend:

  • Software developers
  • Data engineers
  • Data scientists
  • AI practitioners and IT professionals

Technical level:

  • This is a foundational-level course.

Join Microsoft at an upcoming two-part AI Fundamentals event:
Delivery Language: English
Closed Captioning Language(s): English

 

REGISTER TODAY

 

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals event is open to the public and offered at no cost. Upon completion of the event, the exam is offered at a 50% discount off the exam rate. Prior to registering for this training, government employees must check with their employers to ensure their participation is permitted, and in accordance with, applicable policies and laws.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals (Part Two)

Adapt your skills and master essential tools to excel in an AI-powered world at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn.

November 25, 2024 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada – November 26, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada

Join Microsoft for this two-part event on Azure AI Fundamentals to:

  • Learn the core concepts and basics of AI.
  • Build an understanding of foundational AI workloads.
  • Discover how organizations are using AI to solve real-world challenges.
  • Find out how to use Azure AI services to build intelligent applications.

You’ll also explore the connection between machine learning models and AI capabilities, see examples of generative AI, and learn how to support the responsible use of AI. After completing this training, you’ll be eligible to take the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam at 50% off the exam price.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about AI and computer vision workloads and considerations when analyzing content.
  • Discover Azure machine learning principles for accelerating and automating workflows.
  • Gain insights into Azure natural language processing (NLP) capabilities like sentiment analysis, topic detection, language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.
  • Chat with Microsoft experts—ask questions and get answers to common challenges related to building intelligent applications.

Who should attend:

  • Software developers
  • Data engineers
  • Data scientists
  • AI practitioners and IT professionals

Technical level:

  • This is a foundational-level course.

Join Microsoft at an upcoming two-part AI Fundamentals event:
Delivery Language: English
Closed Captioning Language(s): English

 

REGISTER TODAY

 

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals event is open to the public and offered at no cost. Upon completion of the event, the exam is offered at a 50% discount off the exam rate. Prior to registering for this training, government employees must check with their employers to ensure their participation is permitted, and in accordance with, applicable policies and laws.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals (Part One)

Adapt your skills and master essential tools to excel in an AI-powered world at a free Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day from Microsoft Learn.

November 25, 2024 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada – November 26, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM | (GMT-06:00) Central Time​ US & Canada

Join Microsoft for this two-part event on Azure AI Fundamentals to:

  • Learn the core concepts and basics of AI.
  • Build an understanding of foundational AI workloads.
  • Discover how organizations are using AI to solve real-world challenges.
  • Find out how to use Azure AI services to build intelligent applications.

You’ll also explore the connection between machine learning models and AI capabilities, see examples of generative AI, and learn how to support the responsible use of AI. After completing this training, you’ll be eligible to take the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam at 50% off the exam price.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Learn about AI and computer vision workloads and considerations when analyzing content.
  • Discover Azure machine learning principles for accelerating and automating workflows.
  • Gain insights into Azure natural language processing (NLP) capabilities like sentiment analysis, topic detection, language detection, key phrase extraction, and document categorization.
  • Chat with Microsoft experts—ask questions and get answers to common challenges related to building intelligent applications.

Who should attend:

  • Software developers
  • Data engineers
  • Data scientists
  • AI practitioners and IT professionals

Technical level:

  • This is a foundational-level course.

Join Microsoft at an upcoming two-part AI Fundamentals event:
Delivery Language: English
Closed Captioning Language(s): English

 

REGISTER TODAY

 

Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: AI Fundamentals event is open to the public and offered at no cost. Upon completion of the event, the exam is offered at a 50% discount off the exam rate. Prior to registering for this training, government employees must check with their employers to ensure their participation is permitted, and in accordance with, applicable policies and laws.

Newsela’s Philosophy on AI Tools for Education

Posted on | by Hope

At Newsela, they believe the best education solutions power great teaching, they don’t replace it. Regarding AI tools for education, there are opportunities for positive classroom impact, potential areas of caution, and steep new learning curves. No matter how clever or powerful these new solutions are, there will always be a need for the uniquely human ability of teachers to empathize, connect, inspire, and smile with students.

What is Newsela’s philosophy on AI in education?

As you navigate this new frontier, they want to be transparent about our position on artificial intelligence in education and how Newsela uses it in our products:

  • They strongly believe that teachers know what’s best for their students and should always continue to be the architects, planners, and decision-makers in the classroom.
  • The teacher-student interaction is where learning is at its best. AI should be used to save teachers’ time and make certain tasks easier, creating space and time for teachers to have more powerful one-on-one moments in the classroom.
  • Privacy is always a priority. They ensure that all user data—whether from students, teachers, or other stakeholders—is meticulously blinded. This means that the teams and AI systems involved in leveraging the data won’t be able to associate it with an individual.
  • Their models thrive on aggregated data during the rigorous training process, and each iteration is quality-checked by our team before release. This dual-layered approach ensures the highest standards in the development of our AI systems and never loses the human element of what teaching and learning are all about.
  • They also know that education products must be built with teacher input. We leverage robust research, teacher feedback, and in-classroom experiences to drive the most valuable solutions at every step in the development process.
  • They believe the more specific the application of AI, the better. They always apply it to solve for a clear classroom use case. They focus on ensuring that our machine learning models have the right context and behaviors to deliver valuable outputs, specifically in a classroom setting.

How does Newsela use AI in its products?

For Newsela ELA, Newsela Social Studies, and Newsela Science, we leverage AI in:

  • Article planning supports—including main idea, key terms, discussion questions, and before-reading activity ideas for each text
  • Article topic tags
  • Generating Tier 3 vocabulary definitions
  • Generating writing prompts

For Formative, AI supports:

  • Generating questions, answer hints, and writing prompts
  • Flashcard and practice set generation

For EverWrite (beta), we use AI to power:

  • Real-time student writing feedback delivery, aligned to a chosen rubric
  • Assignment writing prompt generation

At Newsela, their goal is to open up teachers’ abilities to do what they do best: bring learning to life for their students in a deeply personal, human way.

Learn More

Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

General inquiries: iltpp@newsela.com

Districts with 3000+ students
Patrick Gaffney
Illinois Partnerships
312-626-5370
patrick.gaffney@newsela.com

Districts with less than 3000 students
Claire Vock
Illinois Partnerships
630-965-0109
claire.vock@newsela.com

Learn More About Newsela

How-to Action Plans to Navigate Developing K-12 Education Trends

Posted on | by Hope

by: Brian Thomas, President and CEO of Lightspeed Systems

Educators are quite familiar with overcoming challenges, as the last four years have presented more disruption to school districts than at any time in recent history. Despite the unparalleled levels of disruption, several developing K-12 education trends have emerged.

This post highlights four prevailing education trends and provides an overview of how-to action plans to get your district proactively addressing its highest-priority challenges.

Cyberattacks on K-12 Schools Continue to Rise

Cybersecurity attacks present a costly threat to school districts across the United States. According to Comparitech, a cybersecurity and online privacy product review website, global ransomware attacks against K-12 and higher education institutions—breaching over 6.7 million personal records—cost over $53 billion in downtime between 2018 and mid-September 2023.

Cyberattacks on K-12 school districts are rising as cybercriminals identify districts as lucrative targets. Student information systems (SIS) store personally identifiable information (PII) of both students and staff, and many districts simply lack the resources to layer essential cybersecurity measures. The result is district data remains increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The Lightspeed Systems 2022 EdTech App Report showed most districts have more than 2,000 apps in use across their student population, but that only 300 apps account for 99 percent of student use. Regardless of usage rates, district IT leaders are responsible for safeguarding students’ personally identifiable information (PII) on all apps in the district, including the remaining 1,700 infrequently used apps. Unsecure websites and “rogue” apps, those used by staff and students but not vetted by IT, easily slip through the cracks, creating openings for cybercriminals to enter.

Recovering systems after an attack is both costly and time-consuming. In addition to often paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, district networks are down an average of four days, and require30 days to fully recover.

Action Plan:

  1. Audit all applications in use across your school district, their privacy policies, and data security practices. Third-party analysis of privacy policies provides a reliable source of expertise. These steps can be completed manually or accelerated with digital intelligence software.
  2. Block students and staff from accessing new and unknown websites. Millions of new sites come online each day and the vast majority aren’t educational. These sites can be malicious and until they are categorized by your web content filter, the safest option is simply to prohibit access. If you’re using a web filter with an AI-driven dynamic database, educational or appropriate sites won’t remain uncategorized for more than a couple of hours.
  3. Inform all stakeholders about the importance of cybersecurity and data privacy to empower them with the knowledge to protect their privacy and the community. Mitigate risk by teaching staff and students about phishing emails and rouge apps to help prevent them from unintentionally opening malware that will leave them and your district vulnerable.

 

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Lightspeed Systems
Mike Durando
Vice President of Sales
512-439-3995
mdurando@lightspeedsystems.com

sales@lightspeedsystems.com

Learn More About Lightspeed Systems

HOW AI CAN HELP STUDENTS LEARN DIGITAL SELF-REGULATION

Posted on | by Hope

This post is sponsored by Deledao.

Can AI help students learn important skills like digital self-regulation? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than just a buzzword; it’s changing the way we think about what is possible in education. This includes the support students need to make sure they can navigate digital spaces effectively – both inside and outside of the classroom.

This past year, over a thousand students participated in a study powered by AI to help them improve their self-regulation skills in a digital environment. The study was made by Deledao and showed that 82% of students improved their self-regulation skills. Today on the blog, we’ll take a look at Deledao, their AI tools, and how their technology can support students with digital self-regulation skill-building this school year.

What is Digital Self-Regulation?

Digital distractions are a major obstacle to effectively integrating technology into classroom instruction. It’s easy for students to become distracted with multiple tabs open on their browser and the Internet at their fingertips. Digital self-regulation is a skill that students can develop in the classroom and take into their everyday experiences navigating online spaces.

Digital self-regulation requires them to self-assess, make choices that are right for them in the moment, and stay focused on the task at hand. Students can employ this skill in multiple settings both inside and outside of their classroom. This skill-building doesn’t happen by accident but through the intentional choices teachers, schools, and districts make to prepare students to navigate digital spaces effectively.

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Contact your dedicated Account Manager:

Deledao Education
Jasen Whetstone
Account Executive
469-525-5208
sales@deledao.com