A file with the .wav or .wave file extension is a Waveform Audio File Format. It’s a container audio file that stores data in segments. It was created by Microsoft and IBM and has become the standard PC audio file format.
The image of farmers clad in flannel shirts while livestock pull plows through the fields may still be foremost on the minds of individuals asked to imagine farm life. But such images may no longer reflect an industry increasingly governed by advanced technology.
Even small-scale family farms have recognized the advantages of embracing technology to help make their operations more efficient and successful. Manual plows and tractors largely have been replaced by fleets of autonomous machines and precision farming technology.
Experts agree that the evolution of modern farming is a case study in the application of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. STEM is helping to address the problem of global food security and widespread climate change.
U.S. News & World Report says 27 percent of new high-skills jobs in agriculture will require a STEM education.
There are many ways STEM is utilized within the agricultural sector.
As a child, Nora told me, she was immediately mislabeled as a special education student simply because she hadn’t yet learned English—a mistake her parents, trusting the system, didn’t feel comfortable questioning. Nora was classified as cognitively impaired, a label that followed her for years and placed her into separate classrooms, where she often felt embarrassed, isolated, and confused. These days, Nora makes sandwiches in a deli, but she often wonders how her life might have changed if her first language, Arabic, had been treated as an asset rather than a disability.
I met Nora when I worked with multilingual learners in Detroit and her story is never far from my mind every time I enter my classroom. I don’t want any of my students to be limited by a label.
Stories like this play out across Michigan all the time.
After axing a Biden-era student loan repayment program, the Trump administration is threatening to kick its millions of mostly low-income beneficiaries onto the government’s most expensive plan unless they switch to a new one quickly.
The Washington Postreported on Friday that the Department of Education was beginning to email the more than 7 million people enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program, telling them they needed to change their plan within the next 90 days.
27 March 2026 – YARMOUTH, MA – A collaboration between the Brazilian Resource Center, AT&T, and Computers4People delivered 100 laptops at no cost to those who need them.
Who received laptop computers?
The three organizations worked together to deliver refurbished laptops to 100 people on Cape Cod. More than 300 applied and completed applications. Those who received the computer range in age from elementary schoolers to senior citizens.
The Republicans’ goal for both the existing law and the pending new one is to kill public-sector unions, which are the linchpin of virtually every Democratic campaign in the state.
Hotspot: Christopher Mitchell on Five Years of Demystifying Broadband Services for Tribal Nations
Hotspot is a series of articles drawn from interviews with people across the digital equity and inclusion ecosystem. For this issue, we sat down with Christopher Mitchell, co-founder of Tribal Broadband Bootcamp, to talk about what it is, how it started, and where it's going.
I will never forget Aug. 3, 2019, when a self-proclaimed white supremacist drove 650 miles from his home north of Dallas to a Walmart in El Paso and opened fire, killing 23 people, most of them Latino. He had written a manifesto decrying what he called the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
What happened in El Paso seven years ago is still with all of us, yet the United States has done little to contextualize this specific tragedy — ignoring El Paso’s history or understanding of the borderlands, or any real framing for why that massacre happened in the first place.
Jazmine Ulloa knew. She is a national reporter at the New York Times and a proud fronteriza. Her new book, El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory came out earlier this month. In it, she explains why El Paso has always been at the center of this country’s foundation and why what happened in 2019 was not an isolated act of madness but the product of a very long and very American history.
Last week, Stephen Miller—Don Trump’s wartime consigliere—met with Texas’s Republican legislators and asked them why they hadn’t passed a bill that banned undocumented children from public schools.
At first glance, the answer to that question might be that in 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that states were legally required to pay for the elementary school education of children regardless of their immigration status. But, as Tom Oliverson, the chairman of the Texas House Republican Caucus, told The New York Times yesterday, “There’s a lot of people that believe that that ruling has some pretty faulty logic associated with it.”
Trump doesn’t want to send Republicans to the polls as the debt collector-in-chief. But right-wing state attorneys general and courts drunk on their own power may force the issue.
Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive.
Brewster says that back in the 1980’s he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity’s knowledge would be freely accessible. In this conversation, he talks with Michael about his work building early search technologies at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
In 1983, he helped create Thinking Machine Corporation, a pioneering supercomputer manufacturer. In 1996, he founded Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis and ranking company that was eventually acquired by Amazon. He then launched The Internet Archive, which now contains over a trillion archived web pages and works with thousands of libraries around the world to preserve digital content.
Brewster says he believes the internet should be a global, open library that supports learning and that compensates content creators fairly. He also talks about some lawsuits against publishers, controlled digital lending and the importance of open access for the future.
Happy Pi Day! March 14 is the date that otherwise rational people celebrate this irrational number, because 3/14 contains the first three digits of pi. And hey, pi deserves a day. By definition, it’s the ratio of the circumference and diameter of a circle, but it shows up in all kinds of places that seem to have nothing to do with circles, from music to quantum mechanics.
Pi is an infinitely long decimal number that never repeats. How do we know? Well, humans have calculated it to 314 trillion decimal places and didn’t reach the end. At that point, I’m inclined to accept it. I mean, NASA uses only the first 15 decimal places for navigating spacecraft, and that’s more than enough for earthly applications.
What if ancient cave paintings weren’t just artistic expressions, but actually records of creatures that roamed the Earth long before humans?
A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange creature with tusks and a long body, even though this animal never lived anywhere near there. The discovery has scientists asking if ancient rock art could actually record prehistoric creatures long before scientists did.
Painted between 1821 and 1835, the panel includes common animals found in the area. But one creature stands out, looking very different from the others. For years, scientists were puzzled by its appearance. Now, researchers suggest that the San people may have drawn inspiration from the fossilized remains of an extinct species, the dicynodont, which roamed the Earth millions of years ago.
In this Confidently Wrong podcast, a NYC public schools veteran shares his family's move to Sayulita, where he now leads a bilingual school.
As we continue to bring you diverse perspectives and experiences on raising and educating kids in Mexico, today’s podcast episode follows the journey of Rob Whiteman from New York City to Sayulita, Mexico.
Rob worked in the city’s massive public school system for years and was looking for a change in life for himself, his wife and their children. And change he made — moving from the largest city in the United States to a tiny beach community of less than 5,000 residents. As you can imagine, it was a massive change, in living, in work and in schooling for his young children.
One of the purported advantages of self-driving car tech is that every car can learn from one vehicle’s mistakes. Here’s how Waymo puts it on its website: “The Waymo Driver learns from the collective experiences gathered across our fleet, including previous hardware generations.”
But in Austin, Waymo’s vehicles struggled for months to learn how to stop for school buses as drivers picked up and dropped off children. An official with the Austin Independent School District (AISD) alleged that the vehicles had, in at least 19 instances, “illegally and dangerously” passed the district’s school buses while their red lights were flashing and their stop arms were extended rather than coming to complete stops, as the law requires.
In early December, Waymo even issued a federal recall related to the incidents, acknowledging at least 12 of them to federal regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which oversees road safety. According to federal filings, engineers with the self-driving vehicle company had “developed software changes to address the behavior” weeks before.
Florida’s public university leaders are consulting in-house and private-sector artificial intelligence experts to help formulate the state system’s approach to the technology. In a discussion at the Florida Board of Governor’s meeting Wednesday at University of West Florida in Pensacola, the board queried a Google expert and officials from Florida International University, University of South
Florida, and University of Florida.
The state is compiling a report about recommended AI use across the system in the “near-term,” governor Ed Haddock said. Haddock chairs the newly formed Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.
“A lot of our universities have done a great job of infusing AI into the curriculum across various majors and courses so that we can teach students how to use AI thoughtfully in their work,” Board of Governors Chair Alan Levine said.
The system created the task force because of “all the potential risks that do exist for us out there with the increased use of AI, but also the opportunities,” Levine said.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday rejected First Lady Melania Trump’s vision of a near-future in which artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots do the work of human school teachers, arguing that society should instead do better by its human educators. "We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve" Sanders said.
The wife of President Donald Trump entered Wednesday’s gathering of the Global First Ladies Alliance accompanied by Figure 03, an AI-powered “general purpose humanoid robot” developed by the Sunnyvale, California-based company Figure.
The Higgins Gallery at the Cape Cod Community College knits a collaboration between art history and museum students to capture a pivotal moment in art history with a show featuring the work of one of the pioneering abstract expressionist painter, George McNeil.
A unique loan from a personal collection connects the dots between abstract art, Provincetown, and museum studies students.
WASHINGTON, March 25, 2026 – The Fiber Broadband Association said fiber infrastructure is critical to closing the digital divide in Tribal communities, where connectivity gaps remain significantly higher than the national average.
A new report says fiber networks can support economic growth, healthcare access, and long-term resilience in Tribal communities.
Recently, seniors from the Lecanto High School (LHS) International Baccalaureate (IB) program had the opportunity to experience something few classrooms can replicate: a firsthand look at the future of space exploration. Through a special trip to NASA and the Kennedy Space Center, these students stepped beyond textbooks into a world where science, innovation and ambition converge.
Participants represented both pathways within the IB program, the Diploma Programme (DP) and the Career-related Programme (CP), reflecting the breadth of opportunity available to students in Citrus County.
While each pathway offers a unique approach to learning, both share a commitment to critical thinking, global awareness and real-world application. This trip brought those values to life.
During their visit, students explored the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, but the experience went far beyond a typical tour. They were given up-close views of launch infrastructure supporting the upcoming Artemis missions.
A gathering raised a bigger question: what if we stopped trying to save local news and started building something better for the future of community media?
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper.
That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it accessible to the public. To that end, the organization operates the Wayback Machine, which now contains more than one trillion archived web pages and is used daily by journalists, researchers, and courts.
But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the web’s traditional robots.txt rules. That risks cutting off a record that historians and journalists have relied on for decades. Other newspapers, including The Guardian, seem to be following suit.
For nearly three decades, historians, journalists, and the public have relied on the Internet Archive to preserve news sites as they appeared online. Those archived pages are often the only reliable record of how stories were originally published. In many cases, articles get edited, changed, or removed—sometimes openly, sometimes not. The Internet Archive often becomes the only source for seeing those changes. When major publishers block the Archive’s crawlers, that historical record starts to disappear.
It is a story that has been taught to generations of British schoolchildren about one of the most famous and pivotal events in the country’s history.
In September 1066, as a Norman duke called William prepared to sail from France to claim the English throne, King Harold of England discovered the Viking leader Harald Hardrada had landed in Yorkshire with an army of his own.
Unfortunately, according to historians, the English king had disbanded his naval fleet weeks before, and so he was forced to march his army almost 300 miles (about 480km) north to Stamford Bridge, near York, confront – and defeat – the Vikings, and then somehow march the troops all the way back to the south coast. Exhausted by this almost superhuman trudge, the English forces were then defeated by William on 14 October, in what would become known as the Battle of Hastings.
But what if historians have got one of the most crucial assumptions about one of England’s most pivotal battles completely wrong?
This is the 13th installment of The TechEd Revolution.
For generations, the syllabus has served as a map. It outlined where a course would go, what texts would guide the journey and what milestones marked progress. Over time it became more than a roadmap; it became a contract. Policies expanded, expectations grew and the document reflected not only pedagogy but institutional structure.
But what does this artifact actually look like from the learner’s perspective? And what new possibilities emerge for the syllabus in the age of generative AI?
Officials with the Citrus County School District say they are working to strengthen internet reliability after a major outage last month disrupted operations across the district.
During a regular Citrus County School Board meeting Tuesday, Superintendent Scott Hebert addressed the incident, explaining that the outage stemmed from a construction accident near Tampa that severed a critical internet line used by the district.
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