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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Detroit Red Wings re-sign Albert Johansson to two-year deal after strong second half
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability are subject to change. The Detroit Red Wings have signed of their restricted free agents. Defenseman Albert Johansson agreed to terms on a two-year contract with an annual average value of $1.13 million. Johansson, 24, had a good showing in the second half of 2024-25, establishing himself as a regular in the lineup. Advertisement TRADE NEWS: Detroit Red Wings trade underachieving forward Vladimir Tarasenko to Minnesota Wild Detroit Red Wings defenseman Albert Johansson (20) looks to pass against Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh (43) during the third period at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Johansson benefitted first from the coaching change – he had languished under Derek Lalonde – and then the fact that an injury to top-four regular Jeff Petry created an opportunity for Johansson to gain a foothold. In addition to Johansson, the Wings also have restricted free agents to sign in forwards Jonatan Berggren and Elmer Söderblom. Contact Helene St. James at hstjames@ Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames. Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. Her books: 'The Franchise: Detroit Red Wings, A Curated History of Hockeytown,' and 'On the Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Detroit Red Wings at the NHL Draft,' and 'The Big 50: The Men and Moments that made the Detroit Red Wings' are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. Personalized copies available via her e-mail. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Red Wings re-sign defenseman Albert Johansson to two-year deal
RTÉ News
09-06-2025
- Politics
- RTÉ News
Behind the Story: Estonia's different approach to AI in education
One of the emerging concerns in education in recent times has been AI, particularly when it comes to assignment work and plagiarism. Spotting it is becoming increasingly difficult, according to many academics, while in secondary schools in Ireland, there are anecdotal reports from teachers about its misuse. As this technology develops, it will only get more difficult for those whose job it is to spot it in assignments. Last weekend, the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland voted to reject proposals aimed at reforming the Leaving Cert. The main concern for the majority of ASTI members was a lack of resources and capacity, according to General Secretary Kieran Christie. But another area of concern was project work and practicals that will be worth a minimum of 40% of a student's grade. The fear is that students could use AI for such projects, and it's not clear how that can be addressed. The Department of Education is finalising guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in schools. It says this guidance will focus on AI in teaching and learning, and will come in addition to the Examinations Commission's advice on the technology when it comes to the Leaving and Junior Certificate. Ultimately, decisions on how it may or may not be used in Irish schools will come down to the Boards of Management at each one. But while Ireland grapples with how to police AI in the classroom, another EU nation is embracing it – and it's one of the continent's top performing places when it comes to learning. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation's (OECD) PISA tests, which examine education outcomes in 79 countries, Estonian students are top in Europe in math and science. They are also second in the EU when it comes to reading, only behind Ireland. From September, the country will roll out licences for artificial intelligence platforms to students aged 16 and 17, as well as teachers. The technology will be integrated into the learning process for all subjects, including physical education. Speaking to RTÉ's Behind the Story podcast, the country's education minister Krisinta Kallas said that AI is here to stay and that the country wants to harness it rather than discourage it. "We are worried that if we don't do anything, and if we don't do more supervised learning with AI, there will be a lot of unsupervised learning with AI anyway and that would be at the detriment of the skills and competences of the children." Ms Kallas said that it will be up to the teachers to determine how exactly it will be used. "I think the crucial thing with AI is not so much of regulating its use, because I don't think you can 100% regulate it, but it is rather making teachers competent in how AI operates, how AI impacts learning, and how it can be used to enhance the learning. "So the training of the teachers is absolutely key. You should not put all your trust in technology, you should put all your trust on teachers." The children will use tablets in school, but can use their AI accounts on their own private devices at home too. It is hoped that by giving it to all students and schools, there will be equality in its use in education with no socio-economic gaps. There has been no public pushback on the plan according to Ms Kallas. "It might be because our education has been relatively digitalised for a very long time. "We introduced the first digital tools into our education system 25 years ago, so there is a whole parents' generation who has grown up by using digital technology in schools so it hasn't really been an issue. "So the debate is mostly about how to use AI and what kind of learning it should enhance, and what would happen if we don't use it because maybe there is much more fear of missing out on learning skills if we don't do a nationally - organised programme on AI introduction. "If we just allow to go in a natural way as it is today, then students are using it for replacing their own learning rather than learning with an AI and that's a much bigger risk than trying to introduce AI in a more supervised and controlled way with teachers." "In that reality we need to redesign the whole learning process – what kind of assignments we give to students and what kind of learning we want to happen, and how the AI will be used by the students to enhance this learning." Mobile phones Unlike other countries in Europe, Estonia supports the use of mobile phones in schools. But Ms Kallas said teachers ultimately take autonomy in decisions when it comes to them. "We believe in a bottom-up approach when we allow schools to make those regulations," she said. "Mobile phones are used in class for learning purposes quite a lot in Estonia. "And also mobile phones in Estonia are used for all other things that you do in life. "The child needs to get the bus schedule to get home, needs to contact their parents, needs to figure out how to get to the sports club after school. "We do voting and other activities as citizens through our mobile phones. "It would be confusing for the younger generation that on one side we want them to vote online and use their phones to do their civic duty and on the other side we ban them from the school. "What we need to do is make them learn how to use the mobile phone for the right purposes."
Vox
15-05-2025
- General
- Vox
'Dry texting,' explained
is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at the New York Times. She is also the author of four novels, including the forthcoming Bog Queen, which you can preorder here This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox's newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago, a group of teenagers taught me the term 'dry texting.' It's anything that indicates 'a change in the vibe of the conversation,' Tanisha, 18, told me. Someone who usually texts in all caps could revert to lowercase. They could text back only short replies, or comments that don't invite a response — a 'conversation ender,' as Joanne, 18, put it. Dry texting is the most common way kids at her school find out someone is mad at them, Akshaya, also 18, told me. I was talking with the three teens — co-hosts of the podcast Behind the Screens — about something that came up on a recent episode that intrigued me. They argued that phones, texting, and social media could make it easier for teenagers to avoid conflict with each other, by providing them with numerous passive-aggressive methods of showing disapproval. The teens' comments stuck out to me because adults typically think of phones as igniting confrontation between young people, not the other way around. One Ohio school district, for example, banned phones in schools over concerns that students were using social media to orchestrate fights. But as much as texting and social media can amplify disputes among teens, they can also transform these disputes into something quieter, more confusing, and sometimes harder to deal with. 'Tech creates these subtle fault lines in communication,' Emily Weinstein, executive director of Harvard's Center for Digital Thriving, told me. Behaviors like leaving someone on read, half-swiping on Snapchat, or turning off location sharing are 'ambiguous signals,' Weinstein said. They could be innocent, or they could mean the sender is actually mad, an uncertainty that has teens 'worrying, wondering, second- or even third-guessing what is meant.' These ambiguities aren't unique to teens — who among us has not sent or received the dreaded 'ok' text? But today's tweens and teens have also grown up enmeshed with devices in a way their elders didn't. Their formative years have been marked by lockdowns and school closures, periods when, as podcast co-host Joanne put it, 'the only type of interactions we could have had were behind a screen.' What happens when a machine for sending ambiguous signals becomes an integral part of your social life? Why ambiguous texting hurts For answers, I turned to Scholastic's Kid Reporters, a group of 10–14-year-olds who cover 'news for kids, by kids.' The young journalists went to work in their respective schools, and came back with much the same observation the Behind the Screens co-hosts shared with me: phones definitely make it easier to ignore someone you don't want to talk to. 'Sometimes it's just easier to leave someone on read or not respond right away instead of talking face to face,' one 13-year-old told Scholastic reporter Aiden. 'I've definitely avoided talking to someone in person and just showed I was mad by muting them for a bit. It's kinda petty but it's also how a lot of people deal with stuff now.' 'In real life you can't ghost somebody,' Scholastic reporter Xander Dorsey told me in an email. 'In texting you could say 'oh, I'll be right back.' It's much more awkward to walk off in real life.' Teens can also express their displeasure with someone by taking them off their close friends list on Instagram, or — a more extreme step — unfollowing them entirely, Akshaya said. Online communication 'makes it a lot easier to be passive-aggressive,' she explained. But being on the receiving end of such passive aggression, whether it's a 'dry' text or message hanging there on the screen without a response, kids and experts agree: 'It will trigger this anxious thinking spiral where they see that they've been left on read, and you start to wonder, are they mad at me?' Weinstein told me. 'Do they hate me? Do they think I'm an idiot? Did I say the wrong thing?' When the meaning does become clear, ambiguous signals can be even more painful than a more direct confrontation, teens say. 'I got removed from a group chat and found out they were talking about me behind my back,' the same 13-year-old told Aiden. 'I felt confused and like I wasn't even worth a real explanation.' 'It hurt even more that they didn't just come talk to me,' she added. Phones are shaping how kids navigate conflict Passive-aggressive phone behavior is far from unique to kids. But because they're at a developmental stage in which they're extremely sensitive to what their peers are thinking and feeling about them, 'they're more likely to be scrutinizing these ambiguous signals,' Weinstein said. Adolescence is also a time when conflict resolution skills are still developing, Weinstein said. We all need those skills because 'life is full of conflict,' said Darja Djordjevic, a psychiatrist who works with Stanford Brainstorm, a lab focused on mental health and digital well-being. Dealing with people who disagree with us is a crucial part of growing up. Some fear that phones could disrupt that process. 'We learn how to argue and fight productively in person,' Djordjevic said. Sending ambiguous signals over text or social media could represent 'a lost opportunity for confronting things' in real life. There's a lot of concern among adults about how phones affect social skills more generally, and while I don't always share that concern, I think it's reasonable to ask whether new forms of communication will change how teens handle (or don't handle) confrontation as they mature. The older teens I spoke with allayed these concerns somewhat. Akshaya told me that when she and her friends were younger, 'we would start removing each other from our followings if there was a big falling-out, or getting dry and stuff to avoid talking to each other.' Now that they're about to graduate from high school, though, 'I don't see it as much.' Kids also pointed out that phones can sometimes actually help them resolve a conflict. Texting 'gives me time to think before responding and helps me express my thoughts more clearly,' one 12-year-old told Aiden. 'Sometimes it's less intimidating to start a difficult conversation through messages, and that can help us work out the problem later.' Teens will also often show a draft text to multiple friends before hitting send, Tanisha told me. That way, 'you're more confident that that text isn't going to be something bad or anything like that, because you have other people's approval.' (With workshopping texts, however, there is a risk that 'your voice kind of gets lost,' she noted.) And avoiding confrontation isn't always the worst thing. If, for example, a kid lives in a community or goes to a school where physical fights are common, 'the stakes of certain kinds of online conflict are very different than a teen who's in a context where all that might happen is someone's gonna be mad at them,' Weinstein said. For some teens, ambiguous signals could actually be a way to stay safe. Still, just as teenagers might need tools for responding to big, loud problems like bullying, they need help dealing with the subtle fault lines their phones create as well. It starts with listening to young people about the role tech plays in their lives, Weinstein said. Some app features that may seem benign to adults (Instagram close friends or location sharing come to mind) can feel very different for teens, Weinstein explained. 'So often, adults miss or misunderstand aspects of what teens are experiencing behind their screens.' The kids I talked to also had advice for their peers dealing with dry texting and other ambiguous phone behaviors, much of it strikingly low-tech. Scholastic reporter Evy, 12, recommends hashing things out in person whenever possible. 'Having a real conversation with them and laughing with them — that makes it so much better,' she said. What I'm reading PowerSchool, a company that makes software parents and teachers use to track students' grades, was hacked last year. Now several schools have received extortion notes threatening to release private student data. The FDA is moving to pull prescription fluoride drops and tablets off the market. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly criticized the mineral, but experts say many of his claims are misleading, and dentists are worried that getting rid of fluoride will increase kids' risk of tooth decay. Amid the culture wars surrounding America's schools, politicians are no longer talking about children's actual learning, writes Dana Goldstein at the New York Times. Both my children have been demanding repeat readings of Chloe and Maude, a picture book about what to do when a) your drawings don't look realistic, b) your friend tries to reinvent herself and you're not sure you like it, or c) you're trying to fall asleep but that one crack on the ceiling looks like a mouth. From my inbox A reader recently reached out to tell me she received an email from Google notifying her that the company's Gemini AI apps would soon be available for kids, allowing them to 'create stories, songs, and poetry,' and 'get homework help.' The reader found the Google email 'off-putting and disturbing,' she said, 'as if they are saying it's inevitable that kids will be relying heavily on AI in the future, so here's a guide on how to get them started young.' Next week, I'll be talking with Vox senior tech correspondent — and User Friendly newsletter author — Adam Clark Estes about the role of AI in kids' lives. If you, like the reader above, have thoughts about how the kids you know use (or don't use) AI — or questions for me and Adam as we chat — let me know at
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Behind the scenes of ‘FOX & Friends': Hosts give rare insider access on FOX Nation
For the first time, viewers can get a behind-the-scenes look at America's #1 cable morning show, "FOX & Friends." The new FOX Nation documentary, "Behind the Scenes: FOX & Friends," takes audiences through nearly three decades of early mornings, evolving hairstyles, and the camaraderie that keeps the show going strong. "It goes through the history of 'FOX & Friends.' You see our many hairstyles over the last, almost 30 years. It's great," longtime co-host Steve Doocy remarked. The 40-minute special offers an intimate look at the hosts, producers, and crew who make America's mornings brighter. And, as Doocy revealed, caffeine plays a starring role. "A lot of people say, 'How do you do it every morning? You get up so early,'" he said. "'FOX & Friends' runs on Dunkin.'" Read On The Fox News App From 6 to 9 a.m., "FOX & Friends" continues to dominate the morning cable news ratings, holding the top spot for 23 consecutive years. With 1.2 million daily viewers, including 164,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic, the show's staying power is undeniable. Through old clips and never-before-seen footage, the documentary takes a trip down memory lane, back before "Fox & Friends" even had its now-iconic name. "It used to be called Fox Express," "FOX & Friends First" co-host Carley Shimkus revealed. "It was, in the very beginning, and it was like a newsreel where we'd talk about the news of the day in 15-mintutes," Doocy added. Original host Brian Kilmeade, who's been there from the start, recalled just how much the show has evolved. "In the beginning, there were no rules … The target was written in pencil," he said. Doocy agreed, reminiscing about the early days when the show had no script. "In the very beginning, it started out at about 4:30am, 5 o'clock, the producers would come in, and they'd go 'Ok, what do you want to talk about?' We'd come up with three things, and so on a single card we'd write down those three things, and over two hours we'd just talk." The documentary captures the trials and triumphs of keeping a live morning show running for nearly three decades, all while showcasing how the hosts — and their wardrobes — have changed since the '90s. It takes you through Fox offices, the green room, and even FOX News meteorologist Janice Dean's 20 years of coats. And if you ask Steve Doocy how he feels about the documentary? "It's so good!" "Behind the Scenes: FOX & Friends" is now streaming on FOX article source: Behind the scenes of 'FOX & Friends': Hosts give rare insider access on FOX Nation
Fox News
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Behind the scenes of ‘FOX & Friends': Hosts give rare insider access on FOX Nation
For the first time, viewers can get a behind-the-scenes look at America's #1 cable morning show, "FOX & Friends." The new FOX Nation documentary, "Behind the Scenes: FOX & Friends," takes audiences through nearly three decades of early mornings, evolving hairstyles, and the camaraderie that keeps the show going strong. "It goes through the history of 'FOX & Friends.' You see our many hairstyles over the last, almost 30 years. It's great," longtime co-host Steve Doocy remarked. The 40-minute special offers an intimate look at the hosts, producers, and crew who make America's mornings brighter. And, as Doocy revealed, caffeine plays a starring role. "A lot of people say, 'How do you do it every morning? You get up so early,'" he said. "'FOX & Friends' runs on Dunkin.'" From 6 to 9 a.m., "FOX & Friends" continues to dominate the morning cable news ratings, holding the top spot for 23 consecutive years. With 1.2 million daily viewers, including 164,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic, the show's staying power is undeniable. Through old clips and never-before-seen footage, the documentary takes a trip down memory lane, back before "Fox & Friends" even had its now-iconic name. "It used to be called Fox Express," "FOX & Friends First" co-host Carley Shimkus revealed. "It was, in the very beginning, and it was like a newsreel where we'd talk about the news of the day in 15-mintutes," Doocy added. Original host Brian Kilmeade, who's been there from the start, recalled just how much the show has evolved. "In the beginning, there were no rules … The target was written in pencil," he said. Doocy agreed, reminiscing about the early days when the show had no script. "In the very beginning, it started out at about 4:30am, 5 o'clock, the producers would come in, and they'd go 'Ok, what do you want to talk about?' We'd come up with three things, and so on a single card we'd write down those three things, and over two hours we'd just talk." The documentary captures the trials and triumphs of keeping a live morning show running for nearly three decades, all while showcasing how the hosts — and their wardrobes — have changed since the '90s. It takes you through Fox offices, the green room, and even FOX News meteorologist Janice Dean's 20 years of coats. And if you ask Steve Doocy how he feels about the documentary? "It's so good!" "Behind the Scenes: FOX & Friends" is now streaming on FOX Nation.
