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Instagram working with schools to take action against bullying, gossip accounts

Mashable Tech

For years, educators and parents have implored Instagram to address student bullying and harassment that often starts on the company's platform and later shows up in the classroom. When participating schools report content or accounts to Instagram that may violate the platform's community standards, those reports are prioritized for review.

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Study: Hand clapping is akin to a Helmholtz resonator

Ars Technica

A new paper published in the journal Physical Review Research provides experimental support for the hypothesis that hand clapping essentially acts like a Helmholtz resonator akin to the hum generated by blowing across the top of a bottle, or the hiss one hears when holding a conch shell to one's ear.

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Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

sgEngage

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized.

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Hallow Road review: Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys have come to scare you senseless

Mashable Tech

Tearfully, the college student tells her mother that she's been in a car collision, and she's about 40 minutes away on a heavily forested stretch known as Hallow Road. Hallow Road was reviewed out its World Premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival. Hallow Road is a story of parents desperate to save their child.

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These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

The Verge

She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. Edgenuity offers over 300 online classes for middle and high school students ranging across subjects from math to social studies, AP classes to electives.

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. And as technology evolves, so do students’ needs. So I spoke to some experts on the subject: students themselves. So I spoke to some experts on the subject: students themselves. Best laptops for elementary school students.

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First students, now teachers: Educators are using ChatGPT to grade kids' work

TechSpot

Called Writeable, the new ChatGPT-powered tool is designed to help teachers in grades 3-12 evaluate student papers, writes Axios. Teachers are supposed to review the comments produced by the AI before handing them. The website promises that Writeable will save grading time and offer suggestions for specific areas of improvement.

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