Minnesota School Adds ICE 'Harassed' Migrants Slide to Year 8 Curriculum — Education Watchdog Says It's 'Biased'

A Minnesota middle school geography lesson calling ICE 'harassing' migrants has sparked backlash from parents and education ...
Educators Technology

How to Use AI To Create Engage Video Lessons

Synthesia is the most discussed avatar tool in education. You pick from 230+ avatars, type your script, and it generates a video with natural lip-syncing in 140+ languages. It can also convert ...

Minnesota middle school faces backlash over lesson claiming ICE used 'tricky & violent tactics'

A Minnesota school's lesson on ICE has ignited debate. Eighth graders learned about alleged "tricky & violent tactics" used by ICE. The curriculum included claims of harassment against legal ...

Minnesota school taught eighth-grade geography class ICE uses 'tricky & violent tactics': docs

WASHINGTON — A Minnesota middle school taught eighth-graders that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are ...
Detroit News

Exclusive: HGTV star Nicole Curtis apologizes after video shows her using n-word

Michigan native and HGTV star Nicole Curtis has apologized after a video of her working on a house surfaced of her using a racial slur and her long-running house rehab show was pulled. In the clip, ...
MIT Technology Review

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it. The US Department of Homeland Security is using AI ...
NPR

Videos of cows using tools are drawing attention back to a cult-favorite cow comic

A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools." In case you haven't heard, cows are using tools now. Well, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Cow Named Veronika Can Scratch Her Back With a Broom. Watch the Video That Scientists Are Calling the First Documented Evidence of Cattle Using Tools

Around ten years ago, an organic farmer and baker in a small Austrian town noticed that his pet cow would use sticks to scratch herself. The cow, named Veronika, also appeared to refine her technique ...
The New York Times

A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.

A video on TikTok in October appeared to show a woman being interviewed by a television reporter about food stamps. The women weren’t real. The conversation never happened. Generated by A.I. The video ...
CNN

In a scientific first, biologists recorded a wild wolf potentially using tools

A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...
PC World

YouTube will upscale SD videos to 4K using AI, unless creators opt out

YouTube turned 20 years old this year, because time is a nightmare with only oblivion as an escape. But that means a lot of the older stuff that was uploaded to YouTube is in pretty bad shape, ...