The top software development news of the year

This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.
Education Week

Play-Based Learning Yields More Joy, Higher Scores at This Elementary School

That joyfulness can extend even to the more mundane lessons, like learning new vocabulary, which historically has involved ...

The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I.

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.

Mitchell Hamline Law Professor Integrates AI Into Contracts Course

Mitchell Hamline School of Law professor Gregory Duhl will begin teaching his "reimagined" contracts course this spring.
CNBC

Here are 6 of the safest ways to pay online and in-person

Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers. Visit americanexpress.com to learn more. Any time you tap, swipe or dip a credit or debit card at checkout or enter your card number online, you ...

AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.

At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also ...

I took Harvard's free online coding classes to better catch AI's errors - and they're legit

Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever.
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...