PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) — Visit Mercer County has earned the 2026 Digital Innovation Award from the West Virginia Department of Tourism. Presented Sept. 22 at the Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Charleston, the honor is part of the state’s annual Almost Heaven Achievement Awards, which celebrate excellence in marketing, development, and overall impact across West…
Burns is a longtime arts and culture journalist and professor at the University of Rhode Island. She was most recently a columnist for the Westerly Sun. Nunes is an award-winning public media journalist who most recently was managing editor of the Westerly Sun. We asked them to answer a few questions about their new project,…
As generative artificial intelligence and education further intertwine, a Wake County student is calling on school district leaders to set a clear standard for detecting its use. Green Hope High School freshman Eleanor Canina said she was falsely accused of using generative AI to complete an English assignment. Now, she is spearheading a Change.org petition that…
When students are introduced to most new topics, schools can slowly scaffold learning. But that’s not been the case with artificial intelligence, as Poway Unified School District learned. “We gave students keys to the sports car before we gave them any drivers’ ed,” says Amy Fousek, the district’s director of educational technology, in a November…
Generative AI is being used in multiple ways in Garfield County, from police department social media accounts to artists, businesses and in classrooms from Carbondale and New Castle. What is this new technology and what is the cost? Artificial Intelligence, like ChatGPT, Grok, and many other AI systems aren’t intelligent in the way they’re marketed…
