Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Look Up Say More Safety Net Versus Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off All Series All the tech skills deemed obsolete in the age of AI. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Where, oh where, did our WPMs go? If you're unfamiliar with the name, she was the not-entirely-real icon behind classroom software that taught generations of students touch typing. Beacon was a celebrity of early digital literacy, with generations of learners collectively misremembering her as a real-life elite typer -- not just a made-up name attached to the likeness of model Renée L'Esperance.

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Chicago Public Schools have lost over 77,000 students since 2010 as families turn to charter schools and school choice options. A pastor explains why buildings sit empty.

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Professors are tearing their hair out over AI detectors. Timothy Paustian has tried everything to stop his students from writing essays with AI. When ChatGPT first came out, Paustian, a biology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, tested AI detectors that promised to flag machine-generated prose. They were "comically bad," he told me. Then he started sneaking invisible prompts into his assignments that only chatbots would respond to.

'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? A handful of electronic components, a few wires and a basic programmable circuit board are enough to bring a group of curious children around a table in central Gaza to learn about robotics. Students at The Next Gen Team: Rising Robotics Engineer Project in Deir el-Balah learn how to integrate sensors into alarm systems, study robotics, understand how motors and drive units work, as well as get firsthand experience with programming. The robotics and early warning systems they are working on could make way for bigger developments such as early detection of gas leaks and fires or help rescue workers access hard-to-reach areas, such as victims trapped under rubble. Today's lesson will also teach students the sciences of the future and help them keep pace with technological advancements happening outside Gaza's borders. Before the war, students had access to schools, universities, incubators and training programmes to pursue an interest in technology.

Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym? As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward. When I'm in New York, I take spin classes on the Upper East Side. It is not especially pleasant. It is not supposed to be. We have chosen, quite deliberately, to subject ourselves to forty-five minutes of physical discomfort for benefits accrued down the road: better health, greater strength, a future version of ourselves that will justify the soreness tomorrow morning.

UT Austin is dropping women's studies, gender studies and ethnic studies majors amid low enrollment and political pressure. The move is being hailed as a major conservative victory.

Natasha Singer's book "Coding Kids" tracks how public schools were bewitched by private corporations, setting the stage for the ed-tech backlash of today. Over Labor Day weekend, Springfield Public Schools, a district in western Massachusetts that serves twenty-three thousand students across some sixty schools, fell prey to a cyberattack that shuttered classes for four days. Staff members lost access to students' contact information, transcripts, and medical records; internal phone lines, security-camera systems, and even copy machines went down. Teachers and students couldn't use their school-issued laptops or log into their e-mail or other school applications from home devices. Springfield's schools use the Microsoft 365 Education and PowerSchool software platforms to house most of the stuff of everyday learning--schedules, assignments, slide decks, readings, handouts, quizzes--but everything stored there was now out of reach.

Image caption, At least 156 people, including 120 children, were killed in February's strike on the primary school in Minab UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians. A new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, external said February's missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd constituted indiscriminate attacks causing civilian deaths and damage to civilian infrastructure. There was no immediate comment from the US. It has previously denied striking Lamerd and said it is investigating what happened in Minab. The experts also found Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during a crackdown on mass anti-government protests in January.