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Wonderbook, a new resource available at the library, can help reluctant readers build confidence and vocabulary.

In 2018, global technology giant, Google, opened its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) research center in Africa. The lucky host country? Ghana. A country whose new leadership was ratcheting up long proclaimed hopes of making the country: “the gateway to Africa”.

Google for Education has unveiled a host of new features and integrations at ISTELive 23 happening this week in Philadelphia, all aimed at amplifying teacher impact and improving student outcomes, the company said on its blog.

Google announced its latest tech for education features, including a new Google for Education hub, program partnerships, and new accessibility options.

The new integration will allow schools to pin Adobe Express to the ChromeOS shelf and will allow IT administrators to more easily deploy the tool to schools and classes.

The Photo Club meets regularly at the library on the third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:45 p.m. in the Linda Widrig Neuss room.

Through the African AI Centre, Google aims to push the boundaries of AI while solving pressing problems.

Homegrown conversational AI platform SwiftChat with Google on Thursday introduced Read Along, a speech-based reading tool on their platform.SwiftChat's Read Along bot will assist early learners aged 5-11 years in learning to read ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones Discusses Democracy and The 1619 Project. “If democracy is government with consent of the governed, then [the United States wasn’t] a democracy at our founding … So what do we call a democracy?” asked Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. On November 20, 2022, Hannah-Jones discussed the current state of American democracy and civil rights with Howard University constitutional law professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson through the lens of The 1619 Project, the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Authors Matthew Desmond, Michelle Alexander and Leslie Alexander will be among the participants in a series of readalongs from the book edition of "The 1619 Project,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning report from the New York Times that has been widely acclaimed, debated and censored.