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River Rock Academy Expands Offerings to Cressona, PA

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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CRESSONA, Pa., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- River Rock Academy is proud to announce its expansion of special education and alternative education services to Cressona, PA, marking the school's 11th location in the state of Pennsylvania.

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  • CRESSONA, Pa., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- River Rock Academy is proud to announce its expansion of special education and alternative education services to Cressona, PA, marking the school's 11th location in the state of Pennsylvania.
  • The opening of this campus allows River Rock Academy to provide services to students in Schuylkill County.
  • "I would like to thank all our local school districts in the county who have partnered with us on our new River Rock Academy Cressona Campus," said Brandon Hoff, Regional Director, River Rock Academy.
  • River Rock Academy provides academic programming infused with emotional and social skills development, tailored to each student's unique needs.

ExoDexa Adds Education, Gaming and Business Insights with Four New Board Members

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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ExoDexa , the developer of the ExoDexa adaptive learning gaming platform, today announced the addition of four new members to the company’s board: Renée Cobb, Mark Riddle, Timothy Morten and W. Steven Temple.

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  • ExoDexa , the developer of the ExoDexa adaptive learning gaming platform, today announced the addition of four new members to the company’s board: Renée Cobb, Mark Riddle, Timothy Morten and W. Steven Temple.
  • The new board members join ExoDexa Chief Executive Officer and President Dr. Leah H. Hanes and ExoDexa Chairman and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, adding valuable education, gaming and business experience and insights to help guide the company on its mission to improve education through games.
  • “With the ExoDexa platform, we are seeking to shape the future of education through an engaging in-game curriculum strategy for learners,” said Dr. Hanes, co-founder at ExoDexa.
  • Morten , a production director and CEO at Frost Giant Studios brings expertise in video game development to ExoDexa.

Music Video Shot at FHU Gives Students Rare Opportunity

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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HENDERSON, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Working with 8 Track Entertainment, Grammy®, CMA and ACM Award-winning multi-platinum country group Shenandoah chose the Freed-Hardeman University campus as the location of their upcoming music video. The video for "In My Book" was shot near the end of the spring semester to be released this summer.

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  • The video for "In My Book" was shot near the end of the spring semester to be released this summer.
  • He had first worked with music professor Dr. Alan Kinningham through an Engaged Learning Initiative project involving FHU students who had written songs through his and Dr. Margaret Payne's class.
  • When the video was shot near the end of April, they also recorded the University Chorale singing Amazing Grace."
  • "We can't wait for country music fans worldwide to see and hear this latest music from Shenandoah and very much looking forward to building more unique initiatives and opportunities with FHU."

Congressman David Kustoff Conducts Listening Tour, Makes Stops at FHU, Henderson

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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HENDERSON, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Congressman David Kustoff is visiting all 20 counties in the 8th district this month in order to hear constituents' concerns. Last Thursday, his tour included several stops in Chester County, notably at Freed-Hardeman University. He had a sit-down discussion with local bank executives, FHU leadership, faculty and students. 

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  • HENDERSON, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Congressman David Kustoff is visiting all 20 counties in the 8th district this month in order to hear constituents' concerns.
  • Last Thursday, his tour included several stops in Chester County, notably at Freed-Hardeman University.
  • Five FHU students attended the meeting with Kustoff, each of them feeling personally invested in different topics discussed that day.
  • One student, Ben Shelton, a junior sport administration major, was glad to hear Kustoff mention the farmers of the area.

Alchemy Partners with Brightpoint Community College to Transform the Distance Learning Experience

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alchemy , a leading education technology and services provider, is delighted to announce its partnership with Brightpoint Community College, a member of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS).

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  • STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alchemy , a leading education technology and services provider, is delighted to announce its partnership with Brightpoint Community College, a member of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS).
  • Alchemy brings to Brightpoint a unique combination of technology and services that enable a dynamic learning design partnership.
  • "We are thrilled to join forces with Brightpoint in their ongoing efforts to enhance distance learning for modern learners," said Carrie O'Donnell, founder and CEO of Nectar, Inc., parent company to Alchemy.
  • The collaboration between Alchemy and Brightpoint Community College promises to result in innovative, inclusive and enriching educational experiences that meet the needs of the college's diverse student community.

Nexus at University of Michigan Engineering and Fullstack Academy Launch Tech Training Bootcamps

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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National tech education provider Fullstack Academy and Nexus at University of Michigan Engineering today launched two new tech bootcamps in AI & Machine Learning and Coding to train talent for in-demand careers in Michigan’s expanding tech field and beyond.

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  • National tech education provider Fullstack Academy and Nexus at University of Michigan Engineering today launched two new tech bootcamps in AI & Machine Learning and Coding to train talent for in-demand careers in Michigan’s expanding tech field and beyond.
  • “From our research, it is clear that Ann Arbor, and Michigan as a whole, are becoming important centers for tech innovation,” said Nelis Parts , CEO of Fullstack Academy.
  • The University of Michigan Nexus Tech Bootcamps will have new admission entries every six to eight weeks and do not require university enrollment or prior technical experience.
  • Scholarships are available to current University of Michigan students and alumni as well as active-duty service members and veterans.

Netherlands-Based ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland Selects YuJa Video Platform to Serve More Than 38,000 Students Attending 12 Colleges

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland, the biggest vocational educational institute in the Netherlands, has selected the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform to provide a video and media creation, hosting, storage, and distribution solution across its campuses.

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  • ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland, the biggest vocational educational institute in the Netherlands, has selected the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform to provide a video and media creation, hosting, storage, and distribution solution across its campuses.
  • The institution put out a tender for a video solution through SURF, a collaborative organization for IT in Dutch education and research.
  • The institution was seeking a video platform to enhance functionality, ease management of content and make processes more future proof.
  • YuJa works with a variety of institutions in the Netherlands, including the University of Twente, Wageningen University and Research, and Eindhoven University to provide all-in-one video and media solutions.

How educational research could play a greater role in K-12 school improvement

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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Between 2019 and 2022, the Institute of Educational Sciences, the research and evaluation arm of the U.S. Education Department, distributed US$473 million in 255 grants to improve educational outcomes.

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  • Between 2019 and 2022, the Institute of Educational Sciences, the research and evaluation arm of the U.S. Education Department, distributed US$473 million in 255 grants to improve educational outcomes.
  • In 2021, colleges and universities spent approximately $1.6 billion on educational research.
  • The Educational Research Information Center, a federally run repository, houses 1.6 million educational research sources in over 1,000 scholarly journals.
  • Each year, for instance, more than 15,000 educators and researchers gather to present or discuss educational research findings at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

Growing gaps

    • During the same period, NAEP outcomes show stagnated growth in reading achievement among fourth graders.
    • By eighth grade, there is a greater gap in reading achievement between the highest- and lowest-achieving students.
    • Some education experts have even suggested that the chances for progress get dimmer for students as they get older.
    • Here are four things I believe can be done in order to make sure that educational research is actually being applied.

1. Build better relationships with school leaders


    Educational researchers can reach out to school leaders before doing their research in order to design research based on the needs of schools and schoolchildren. If school leaders can see how educational research can specifically benefit their school community, they may be more likely to implement findings and recommendations from the research.

2. Make policy and practice part of the research process

    • By implementing new policies and practices based on research findings, researchers can work with school leaders to do further research to see if the new policies and practices actually work.
    • Through the fund, $679 million was distributed through 67 grants – and 12 of those 67 funded projects improved student outcomes.

3. Rethink how research impact is measured


    As part of the national rankings for colleges of education – that is, the schools that prepare schoolteachers for their careers – engagement with public schools could be made a factor in the rankings. The rankings could also include measurable educational impact.

4. Rethink and redefine how research is distributed

    • Research findings written in everyday language could be distributed at conferences frequented by public school teachers and in the periodicals that they read.
    • If research findings are to make a difference, I believe there has to be a stronger focus on using research to bring about real-world change in public schools.

AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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It defines us as human beings – and seemingly defies the cold logic that lies behind the silicon curtain of machines.

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  • It defines us as human beings – and seemingly defies the cold logic that lies behind the silicon curtain of machines.
  • Yet, the use of AI for creative endeavors is now growing.
  • New AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney are increasingly part of creative production, and some have started to win awards for their creative output.

A blend of novelty and utiliy

    • In this sense, creativity is an act of combining existing resources – ideas, materials, knowledge – in a novel way that’s useful or gratifying.
    • Quite often, the result of creative thinking is also surprising, leading to something that the creator did not – and perhaps could not – foresee.
    • It might involve an invention, an unexpected punchline to a joke or a groundbreaking theory in physics.
    • This combination of novelty and utility is difficult to pull off, as most scientists, artists, writers, musicians, poets, chefs, founders, engineers and academics can attest.

Putting AI to the test

    • In addition to running the TTCT through GPT-4 eight times, we also administered the test to 24 of our undergraduate students.
    • They didn’t know in advance that some of the tests they’d be scoring had been completed by AI.
    • In short, we believe that AI models like GPT-4 are capable of producing ideas that people see as unexpected, novel and unique.
    • Other researchers are arriving at similar conclusions in their research of AI and creativity.

Yes, creativity can be evaluated

    • For one, many outside of the research community continue to believe that creativity cannot be defined, let alone scored.
    • Yet products of human novelty and ingenuity have been prized – and bought and sold – for thousands of years.
    • The person, product, process, press model of creativity, which researcher Mel Rhodes introduced in 1961, was an attempt to categorize the myriad ways in which creativity had been understood and evaluated until that point.

AI’s founders foresaw its creative abilities

    • And had we defined creativity as requiring a human person, then we would have had to conclude, by definition, that AI cannot possibly be creative.
    • Furthermore, the creative abilities of AI’s current iterations are not entirely unexpected.
    • In this sense, the creative abilities now realized by AI may provide a “Sputnik moment” for educators and others interested in furthering human creative abilities, including those who see creativity as an essential condition of individual, social and economic growth.

HBCU Bobblehead Series 2 Unveiled

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled the second HBCU Bobblehead Series, which features 16 officially licensed bobbleheads for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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  • MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This morning, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled the second HBCU Bobblehead Series, which features 16 officially licensed bobbleheads for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
  • In February, the Museum released the first HBCU Bobblehead Series featuring the first bobbleheads for 13 HBCU schools.
  • The HBCU Bobbleheads in Series 2 are scheduled to arrive between now and November depending on the school, and the bobbleheads from Series 1 recently arrived.
  • "We're excited to be expanding the HBCU Bobblehead Collection with the addition of 16 additional bobbleheads," National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar said.