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„Drivers caught passing cyclists too closely are being offered education instead of prosecution by West Yorkshire Police.“
Wenn Verkehrssicherheit nicht mit dem Vorwand „Einschränkung der Freiheit“ ausgesetzt wird.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy85ylk27zgo

'Close pass' drivers offered education by police
Drivers caught passing too close to cyclists are offered education rather than prosecution.

Trump To SCOTUS: Let Us Dismantle Education Dept - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-to-scotus-let-us-dismantle-education-dept/

VQA support to Arabic Language Learning Educational Tool
Khaled Bachir Delassi (LIM Lab, Amar Telidji University, Laghouat, Algeria), Lakhdar Zeggane (LIM Lab, Amar Telidji University, Laghouat, Algeria), Hadda Cherroun (LIM Lab, Amar Telidji University, Laghouat, Algeria), Abdelhamid Haouhat (LIM Lab, Amar Telidji University, Laghouat, Algeria), Kaoutar Bouzouad (Computer Science Dept., USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)

VQA support to Arabic Language Learning Educational Tool
We address the problem of scarcity of educational Arabic Language Learning tools that advocate modern pedagogical models such as active learning which ensures language proficiency. In fact, we investigate the design and evaluation of an AI-powered educational tool designed to enhance Arabic language learning for non-native speakers with beginner-to-intermediate proficiency level. The tool leverages advanced AI models to generate interactive visual quizzes, deploying Visual Question Answering as…

Google unveils a Guided Learning mode within its Gemini chatbot to help students and commits $1B over three years to AI education and training efforts in the US (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91380890/google-unveils-n…

Exclusive: Google Gemini adds AI tutoring, heating up the fight for student users
The new tool, and a $1 billion initiative to improve AI education for college-age Americans, will compete against OpenAI’s recently added ChatGPT Study mode.

Was anyone else taught this? I learnt ITA in my earliest education. Unlike the people profiled in the article I've never had any trouble with spelling or any aspect of learning or using English and I'd wondered if that was *because* I'd been taught ITA but judging by this article I was just lucky!

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/07/just-three-people-took-on-ohio-education-law--and-sparked-a-movement/

AgentSME for Simulating Diverse Communication Modes in Smart Education
Wen-Xi Yang, Tian-Fang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

AgentSME for Simulating Diverse Communication Modes in Smart Education
Generative agent models specifically tailored for smart education are critical, yet remain relatively underdeveloped. A key challenge stems from the inherent complexity of educational contexts: learners are human beings with various cognitive behaviors, and pedagogy is fundamentally centered on personalized human-to-human communication. To address this issue, this paper proposes AgentSME, a unified generative agent framework powered by LLM. Three directional communication modes are considered i…