"While large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have been all the rage over the past year, the most attention has been given to their intersection — the text generation capabilities of LLMs."
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"While large language models (LLMs) and generative AI have been all the rage over the past year, the most attention has been given to their intersection — the text generation capabilities of LLMs."
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"UTRGV is pleased to announce a new incentive program to encourage summer enrollment among new graduate students. Effective immediately, all new graduate students enrolling in summer courses will be eligible for a $2,000 or a $1,000 incentive. This initiative is designed to boost summer enrollment and support our graduate students financially during their studies.
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"Given the potential ramifications of artificial intelligence (AI) diffusion on matters of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, now is the time for higher education institutions to adopt culturally aware, analytical decision-making processes, policies, and practices around AI tools selection and use."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Between the hype about its promise and the panic about its impact on academic integrity and knowledge production, many higher education professionals were caught in a wait-and-see moment in 2023. Will policies govern the use of AI in teaching and learning? How will faculty and staff develop their AI literacy and skill sets, especially as generative AI tools evolve? How should or shouldn't generative AI be used at colleges and universities?"
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The evolving capabilities of artificial intelligence require new approaches to instruction. Here, two leaders from the innovative Ulster BOCES share their expertise on AI's potential role in the classrooms of today and tomorrow.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Our best bet is to try new ways of adapting instruction to leverage these new tools, because the genie isn't going back into the lamp."
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How can AI be harnessed to make higher education not just a privilege for the few, but a right for all and overcome financial roadblocks?
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"AI could reduce costs and make learning more accessible"
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By recognizing and nurturing these distinctly human qualities, organizations can build a future-proof workforce that thrives in an AI-powered world.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The specter of automation looms large, prompting anxieties about robots replacing human workers. Yet while artificial intelligence (AI) excels at crunching data and automating tasks, it falls short of capturing the very essence of what makes us human—the qualities that drive true success in a nuanced and ever-evolving world."
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"Generative AI is becoming so engrained in every field of research, employment, and subject matter, that all educational institutions now need to address the AI Literacy needs of faculty, students, and even staff."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The World Economic Forum, in an insightful article titled Without Universal AI Literacy, AI Will Fail Us, stated, “In this crucial moment, when AI is poised to transform every aspect of our personal and professional lives, universal AI literacy is imperative” (Firth-Butterfield et al., 2022, para. 10)."
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With a zero-trust solution, K-12 IT managers can have more control over who enters the figurative doors of their K-12 network.
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"Expanding classrooms mean IT leaders must prioritize network security as much as possible"
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The Dawn of Enhanced Reasoning in AI: GPT-5 and Llama 3 Set to Revolutionize Complex Task Performance - elblog.pl
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"[T]ech giants OpenAI and Meta have made remarkable strides with the announcement of their latest AI models, GPT-5 and Llama 3. These AI models, which are still under development, promise to leap forward in “reasoning” capabilities."
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EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Even though it’s been a year and a half since ChatGPT was released, making terms like “generative AI” a mainstay in education conversations, most teachers report that they are not using AI for teaching"
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"If a student uses AI to write and nobody notices, does it matter?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Just as the tech tools of the business world — laptops, smartphones and the internet — found their way into classrooms, so too has generative AI. And if one of the goals of school is to prepare children for life beyond, how do we get kids ready for this new world, especially while student writing proficiency remains worrisome?"
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"Durable skills are not only a real thing but a civilizational shift. AI is not the cause. It's an accelerant and a wake-up call. Particularly when working with AI, I argue that teaching skills are durable skills."
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"Teaching skills are durable skills that translate quite well to the AI world."
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Online Program Management companies have helped hundreds of colleges build online degree programs, but the sector is showing signs of strain.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For more than 15 years, a group of companies known as Online Program Management providers, or OPMs, have been helping colleges build online degree programs. And most of them have relied on an unusual arrangement — where the companies put up the financial backing to help colleges launch programs in exchange for a large portion of tuition revenue."
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Leaders across higher education can use this generative AI readiness tool to ensure AI is implemented safely and securely.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive technologies in history, offering higher education institutions the opportunity to re-imagine a world where learning is highly personalized, seamless, and available to everyone... How can we leverage this technology and realize its potential while preparing our institutions, faculty, staff, and students for responsible use?" |
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"In early 2024, the Senate garnered enough support to potentially pass the Kids Online Safety Act—a major privacy law focused on content moderation for minors. Though the bill does not seem to cover higher education institutions, the EDUCAUSE Policy team will be asking for clarification about whether certain scenarios would create compliance concerns for colleges and universities."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"KOSA mandates that platforms offer options to limit the amount of time a minor can spend on a covered platform, parental tools to manage a minor's account, and a reporting mechanism for users to report harm to a minor."
Ashish Kumar's curator insight,
April 28, 7:47 PM
Only work and no play will make your child dull. But only playing and no work will bring in devastation. But again the fifty-fifty scenario will make him jack of all trades and master of non. Now if like two decades before I would have been a school boy the plrthro of emotions would have been different but the truth is how much time a person should spent on leisure/co-cirricular activities follows the same set of arguements from time to time since ages. The beggining of social platform from Orkut to Facebook to Insta Reels to Dark and Mariana Trench Web had been remarkable and the ground reality is that it is not a welcoming arena where everyone is invited to share their thoughts and ideas. A highly charged up atmosphere that causes a discomfort to the internet users and abundance of restrictions also is followed by a competitive structure that always tries to expel the online writers to leave the platform only never to return. The online mailing system which initialky resisted junk and spam mail has now alltogether distant itself from this discussion and question beforehand is how many offices or instituitions are using online mailing platform to send and recieve official letters.
Here we have to keep in mind that the senators are using the legal remedy to provide the online security to the kids. Their are lots and lots of online teaching websites that now a days are considered necessary for the overall individualistic development of child. Concept based learning has finally found it's niche and even after so much effort it is still at present is marked with those segments that could harm your child the process of their development is now to be put under matter of investigation. As I could tell you that these spotted webcasts will also readily defend themselves that being governed by experts we do not venture in uncharted spheres. So on the whole the legal gaurdian can found themselves in tight spit that wether this symbiotic relationship is in actual terns is not a selection based process from where the unknown neighbourers are luring their child for dubious roles in society. From the preseption of surroundings one thing is sure that governmental agencies can not seep in through the whole online/internet facility how so ever hard they try because from the beggining their approach was to tackel all together different elements to use internet facility to be used as medium for spreading their propaganda. Now will the investigating agencies or law makers will say that all along they missed ir ignored boigeyman as their were spellboynd to entrap nit highlight which could have been much more worthy. They have drained their ebergy so very much that the close vigil will ve only on those webcasters that had invited them to do so. I do not know the status of blame game that must be taking place within in which arguements unsurmountable must have been given by people among the colored and painted communities that are to resolve their own personnel intrests. If this is true that time wasted and the cyst firmed by those who were to nabbed has caught the security giving segment napping. Now when nobody is innocent and heavy discussion has already been taken which reconfirmed the hypocracy of those who reap the goodness but claim to be simple. When a class outcast knows that lawmakers are not dutybound I doubt the purpouse of saying caught unawared. Straightaway this time the creaters of loop are given task to build fort. Ashish . avaid480@gmail.com. India . Area Pincode 134102
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Restricting the platform probably won't alleviate schools’ social media woes.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"President Joe Biden signed legislation Wednesday banning TikTok, if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake in the company within the next nine months."
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Make investments in educational technology that harmonizes with school budgets, educator needs and student interests.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As K–12 leaders endeavor to design classrooms to best serve today’s learners, they must leverage technology to ensure that the educational experience is relevant to students’ learning goals and outcomes."
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Consensus is an AI tool that can help teach using research papers, in a widely adaptive new way.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Unlike using a search engine, for example, Consensus will let you directly access information from more than 200 million peer-reviewed research papers immediately. Ask a question and you'll have a selection of answers directly pulled from all that research, without actually having to trawl through it all yourself."
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"AI agents is a growing term in GenAI. But what are they? How will we use them?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"There’s been accelerating publicity lately around “AI agents.” In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote on his blog about how AI agents will completely change how we use computers."
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"AI has changed the world to some degree, but it changed our perceptions and expectations even more."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke"
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AI chatbots show promise in college students but are less effective for K12 and the impact of AI chatbots on learning seems to decrease over time.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become almost synonymous with conversations about education and edtech tools. But there’s an important question that so far remains unanswered: Do AI chatbots help students learn?"
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Integrating ChatGPT into your eLearning environment transforms traditional learning experiences into engaging and interactive journeys.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Integrating ChatGPT into your eLearning environment offers a unique opportunity to transform traditional learning experiences into engaging, personalized, and interactive journeys."
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A new report from Deloitte found administrators and faculty at two-year institutions were less likely to agree that their colleges were prepared for AI-related changes when compared to their counterparts at four-year campuses.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Though a majority of higher education faculty and administrators believe that generative artificial intelligence will have a major impact on their institutions in the near future, only one in five report belief that their institutions are prepared for this change"
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Checkout our collection of the best AI Chrome extensions. From checking spelling and grammar errors to generating summaries and outlines, these AI Chrome extensions are the best.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, made its API public, there have been a number of Chrome extensions developed to take advantage of the AI revolution. These AI-powered browser extensions offer a wide range of features that can help teachers create a more engaging learning environments for their students."
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“We must remember that tech companies want different things for our children from what we do,” writes an English teacher.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Our job should be to question whether generative AI serves our students’ humanity"
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eLearning platforms have emerged as a bright example of innovation in the educational system, revolutionizing personalized learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Personalized learning is not a brand-new idea. Yet, its integration into eLearning strategies has entirely changed the way that education is delivered. Learners are no longer exposed to a one-size-fits-all method. Rather, individuals are met with educational opportunities that adjust to their performances, choices, and pace."
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"In today’s evolving field of learning design and technology (LDT), the ability to create engaging and immersive learning experiences has risen to greater prominence and lies at the heart of what is referred to as learning experience design (LXD)."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This article aims to address the need for greater conceptual clarity surrounding the current state of LXD." |
"There is no doubt that the ability to generate answers to questions is a major value proposition of LLMs. However, there are other uses of LLMs that are both common and valuable. This blog will discuss a few primary uses of LLMs to ensure that you don’t fall into the trap of considering them exclusively for generative purposes."