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Universities are still coming to terms with hybrid approaches to learning and the rise of AI. What does this mean for how we measure the quality of learning? Via EDTECH@UTRGV 
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"It’s time to shake things up in education, and edtech can disrupt traditional learning at every level, from early childhood to university level instruction. We’ve been saying that for years, so how much disruption has edtech created? More than nifty gadgets and tools The first place to look for innovative disruption is in classrooms harboring the latest tech devices. Tablets, interactive robots, and digital voice assistants make up part of the edtech landscape. So do VR goggles, 3D printers, and a host of educational software and apps." Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Jaime Guerra
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Encouraging students to complete work outside of class has always been a struggle. But many college professors say it has gotten even harder in recen Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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"Talk to professors in writing-intensive courses, particularly those teaching introductory or general-education classes, and it sounds as if AI abuse has become pervasive. Clukey said she feels less like a teacher and more like a human plagiarism detector, spending hours each week analyzing her students’ writing to determine its authenticity.
But it’s not AI that has a lot of professors worried. It’s what lies behind that willingness to cheat. While the reasons vary by student and situation, certain explanations surface frequently. Students are working long hours while taking full course loads. They doubt their ability to perform well. They arrive at college with weak reading and study skills. They don’t value the assignments they’re given. They feel like the only way they can succeed is to be perfect. They believe they will not be punished — or not punished harshly — if caught. And many, it seems, don’t feel particularly guilty about it." Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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As with other corporations and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic, American universities turned to virtual means to maintain their vital functions. Consequently, though synchronous and asynchronous classes first appeared more than twenty years ago, they metastasized when students and faculty were either locked down or leery of returning to their campuses. Via Edumorfosis
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Robert Zaretsky (Univ of Houston) writes, "All this weighs little in an era where higher education is no longer viewed as a transformational experience, but instead as a transactional exchange."
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October 31, 2024 1:50 AM
"All this weighs little in an era where higher education is no longer viewed as a transformational experience, but instead as a transactional exchange. "
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Can online social media platforms foster meaningful exchanges, not toxic destructiveness?
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"University presidents from around the world, the UN secretary general and UNESCO’s assistant director general of education renewed calls to bridge the AI divide during the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) conference, IAUP’s first in-person triennial conference since the pandemic." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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October 25, 2024 10:17 AM
"Harnessing the powers of AI to achieve equal access to quality education was highlighted as a top priority, as thought leaders reimagined a future of personalised, in-demand and lifelong learning enabled by emerging AI technologies."
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Philosopher Graham Clay uses AI to help write letters of recommendation, convert lectures into quizzes, and answer student questions when he’s not available. Here’s how. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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October 28, 2024 2:51 PM
"AI can be really good at generating classroom content such as quizzes and slide shows based on educator lecture notes and recording." 
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November 4, 2024 10:36 PM
Erik Ofgang's article, 4 Ways One Professor Uses AI to Save Time and Help Students, discusses practical applications of AI in higher education that enhance e-learning. By automating tasks like grading and providing personalized feedback, AI allows professors to focus more on student engagement and support. This integration not only improves efficiency but also enriches the online learning experience for students, promoting better outcomes.
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Learning ability is probably the most important skill you can have. Take it from Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of "Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning." "We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives," they write. "Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues ... If you're good at learning, you have an advantage in life." And to learn something is to be able to remember it, say the authors, two of whom are psychology professors at Washington University in St. Louis. Unfortunately, lots of the techniques for learning that we pick up in school don't help with long-term recall — like cramming or highlighting. To get over these bad habits, we scoured "Make It Stick" for learning tips. But be warned: If it's difficult, it's good thing. "Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful," the authors write. "Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow." Here are the takeaways: Retrieval: Bring it back from memory.When you're attempting to recall an idea, method, or technique from memory, you're retrieving. Flash cards are a great example: They force you to recall an idea from memory, unlike a technique like highlighting where you're not burning anything into your brain. The reason retrieval's so effective is that it strengthens the neural pathways associated with a given concept. Elaboration: Connect new ideas to what you already know.When you try to put a new idea into your own words, you're elaborating. "The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge," the authors write, "the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later." For instance, if you're in physics class and trying to understand heat transfer, try to tie the concept into your real-life experiences, say, by imagining how a warm cup of coffee disperses heat into your hands. Interleaving: Varying your subjects.When you work on a variety of things at once, you're interleaving. If you're trying to understand a subject — from the basics of economics to hitting a pitch — you're going to learn better if you mix up your examples. A sports case: Batters who do batting practice with a mix of fastballs, change-ups, and curveballs hit for a higher average. The interleaving helps because when you're out there in the wild, you need to first discern what kind of problem you're facing before you can start to find a solution, like a ball coming from a pitcher's hand. Generation: Answer before you have an answer.When you try to give an answer before it's given to you, you're generating. "By wading into the unknown first and puzzling through it, you are far more likely to learn and remember the solution than if somebody first sat down to teach it to you," the authors write. In an academic setting, you could work finding your own answers before class starts. In a professional setting, you could supply your own ideas when you're stuck before talking with your boss. Reflection: Evaluate what happened.When you take a few moments to review what happened with a project or meeting, you're reflecting. You might ask yourself a few questions: What went well? Where can you improve? What does it remind you of? Harvard Business School researchers have found reflective writing to be super powerful. Just 15 minutes of written reflection at the end of the day increased performance by 23% for one group of employees. Mnemonics: Use hacks to recall.When you're using an acronym or image to recall something, you're using a mnemonic. The hall of fame includes abbreviations — Roy G. Biv for the colors of the spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) — and rhyming, like "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." "Mnemonics are not tools for learning per se," the authors write, "but for creating mental structures that make it easier to retrieve what you have learned." Calibration: Know what you don't know.When you get feedback that reveals your ignorance to you, you're calibrating. "Calibration is simply the act of using an objective instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment to better reflect reality." This is necessary since we all suffer from "cognitive illusions": We think we understand something when we really don't. So taking a quiz — or gathering feedback from a colleague — helps you to identify those blind spots. For a deeper dig into the science of learning, make sure to pick up "Make It Stick." It's an illuminating read. SEE ALSO: 10 Strategies Quick Learners Use To Pick Up Anything
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September 20, 2014 10:23 PM
Learning ability is probably the most important skill you can have. Take it from Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel, authors of "Make It Stick: The Science Of Successful Learning." "We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives," they write. "Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues ... If you're good at learning, you have an advantage in life." And to learn something is to be able to remember it, say the authors, two of whom are psychology professors at Washington University in St. Louis. Unfortunately, lots of the techniques for learning that we pick up in school don't help with long-term recall — like cramming or highlighting. To get over these bad habits, we scoured "Make It Stick" for learning tips. But be warned: If it's difficult, it's good thing. "Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful," the authors write. "Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow." Here are the takeaways: Retrieval: Bring it back from memory.When you're attempting to recall an idea, method, or technique from memory, you're retrieving. Flash cards are a great example: They force you to recall an idea from memory, unlike a technique like highlighting where you're not burning anything into your brain. The reason retrieval's so effective is that it strengthens the neural pathways associated with a given concept. Elaboration: Connect new ideas to what you already know.When you try to put a new idea into your own words, you're elaborating. "The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge," the authors write, "the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later." For instance, if you're in physics class and trying to understand heat transfer, try to tie the concept into your real-life experiences, say, by imagining how a warm cup of coffee disperses heat into your hands. Interleaving: Varying your subjects.When you work on a variety of things at once, you're interleaving. If you're trying to understand a subject — from the basics of economics to hitting a pitch — you're going to learn better if you mix up your examples. A sports case: Batters who do batting practice with a mix of fastballs, change-ups, and curveballs hit for a higher average. The interleaving helps because when you're out there in the wild, you need to first discern what kind of problem you're facing before you can start to find a solution, like a ball coming from a pitcher's hand. Generation: Answer before you have an answer.When you try to give an answer before it's given to you, you're generating. "By wading into the unknown first and puzzling through it, you are far more likely to learn and remember the solution than if somebody first sat down to teach it to you," the authors write. In an academic setting, you could work finding your own answers before class starts. In a professional setting, you could supply your own ideas when you're stuck before talking with your boss. Reflection: Evaluate what happened.When you take a few moments to review what happened with a project or meeting, you're reflecting. You might ask yourself a few questions: What went well? Where can you improve? What does it remind you of? Harvard Business School researchers have found reflective writing to be super powerful. Just 15 minutes of written reflection at the end of the day increased performance by 23% for one group of employees. Mnemonics: Use hacks to recall.When you're using an acronym or image to recall something, you're using a mnemonic. The hall of fame includes abbreviations — Roy G. Biv for the colors of the spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) — and rhyming, like "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." "Mnemonics are not tools for learning per se," the authors write, "but for creating mental structures that make it easier to retrieve what you have learned." Calibration: Know what you don't know.When you get feedback that reveals your ignorance to you, you're calibrating. "Calibration is simply the act of using an objective instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment to better reflect reality." This is necessary since we all suffer from "cognitive illusions": We think we understand something when we really don't. So taking a quiz — or gathering feedback from a colleague — helps you to identify those blind spots. For a deeper dig into the science of learning, make sure to pick up "Make It Stick." It's an illuminating read.
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The story of how higher ed went from a reluctant innovator to today — when more than half of American college students take at least one online cours Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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October 11, 2024 12:09 PM
"Two longtime distance ed leaders share their advice for the next chapter of delivering education online"
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"Kapwing, an image and video editing platform, analyzed requests for public figures on Discord's text-to-video AI tool..." Via Leona Ungerer, Yashy Tohsaku
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Students at the University of Texas-Austin have been in mourning as they watched the impact of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) legislation on their campus. Via Anat Lechner PhD
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With microcredentials becoming an increasingly popular offering in higher education, it’s critical that institutions ensure quality. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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November 14, 2024 9:46 AM
"There is still debate across the national landscape about what microcredentials are genuinely meant to capture. Some view them as recognition for smaller, specialized learning achievements that supplement traditional degrees. In contrast, others like myself go even further and contend that microcredentials highlight the most nimble, niche competencies learners acquire throughout their journey."
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New York City public schools will ban students and teachers from using ChatGPT, a powerful new AI chatbot tool, on the district’s networks and devices, an official confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
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Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023 By Brigit Pierce Published Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023 Election Day is fast approaching, but you probably don’t need me to tell you that. Chances are, you’ve already heard about the elections from the news, social media or a neighbor. As English speakers, this information seems almost unavoidable. You could live under a rock and still find candidates slipping flyers through the cracks. But do constituents with limited English proficiency share this experience? Limited English proficiency makes the already complicated electoral process even more difficult to navigate. Language barriers could be one reason Hispanic and Asian voters, who are most likely to be non-English speakers, consistently have the lowest voter turnout. On top of the built-in difficulties, voting barriers are arguably worse for people with limited English proficiency. They are more likely to be impoverished, meaning people with limited English proficiency are among the most in need of government assistance. Without equitable access to election materials, they are effectively barred from having a say in policies that greatly affect their lives. In order to have a representative government that serves all constituents, election resources need to be available in multiple languages. Provisions for multilingual election resources are coded into law by the Voting Rights Act. This landmark legislation leaves out languages such as Arabic and Haitian Creole because of a historically discriminatory system of language classification. This only makes it all the more important that all voters in the upcoming municipal elections are given information in their native languages. This need is present even in Orange County, where 16.7 percent of residents aged five and older speak a language other than English at home. Around 37 percent of these residents do not speak English fluently. Even though they are a minority, the Orange County Board of Elections provides these residents with voting materials in multiple languages. In an email, the Orange County Board of Elections director Rachel Raper said the county is “committed to improving the accessibility of services to persons with limited English proficiency.” This commitment is substantiated by the easily navigable information in both English and Spanish about early voting and the new photo ID requirements available on the Board of Elections website. The bilingual presence of these resources is a crucial step toward full voter participation and should be commended as such. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are sufficient to achieve this goal. For example, election information resources are only provided in English and Spanish on the Board of Elections website. This leaves out speakers of other languages, which make up around half of Orange County residents who do not speak English fluently. And even for Spanish speakers, the resources that exist tend to fall short. "Achieving full democratic participation goes beyond the literal translation of documents and requires cultural competency," saidEmilia Ismael-Simental, the manager of civic and community participation at the nonprofit El Centro Hispano. She said cultural competency entails “understanding how people and communities at large may approach a process like elections,” especially with regard to trusting institutions and the election process. Cultural competency is also key in facilitating participation in other aspects of the democratic process that non-English speaking communities do not fully participate in; this includes volunteering, working at polls and even running for office. “It is not enough to just translate stuff,” Ismael-Simental said. Although the Orange County BOE provides resources such as translated materials, it falls short of cultural competency. This deficit is often made up for by grassroots community-based organizations such as El Centro Hispano and the Refugee Community Partnership. But even with the work that grassroots organizations put in to ensure the representation of people with limited English proficiency, there are still areas that need to be improved. Juan Carlos Navarro, a recently naturalized U.S. citizen, first-time voter and Spanish speaker, said that he has not received information about the elections. When asked about ways that information could better reach people in similar situations to him, Navarro suggested more publicity related to elections or that information could be delivered to houses. Ismael-Simental also cited the need for more poll workers who speak multiple languages to help non-English speakers through the voting process. This improvement is not only contingent upon government policies but also “widespread education and encouragement of the community to be involved,” she said. So, action to address the issue of language accessibility in elections is not only limited to governments and nonprofits; it’s something that individuals can contribute to as well. Whether it's volunteering at polls, helping people with limited English proficiency access election information or donating to nonprofits that work with these communities, everyone can work together for equal democratic participation. Providing meaningful language access is a complex task. But it’s a task that we must not shy away from because it is a key aspect of our democracy. We can all work together to guarantee that all people, regardless of their English proficiency level, are well informed and full participants in the upcoming elections. @brigitlpierce @dthopinion | opinion@dailytarheel.com Via Charles Tiayon
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October 25, 2023 7:41 PM
By Brigit Pierce Published Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023 "Election Day is fast approaching, but you probably don’t need me to tell you that. Chances are, you’ve already heard about the elections from the news, social media or a neighbor. As English speakers, this information seems almost unavoidable. You could live under a rock and still find candidates slipping flyers through the cracks. But do constituents with limited English proficiency share this experience? Limited English proficiency makes the already complicated electoral process even more difficult to navigate. Language barriers could be one reason Hispanic and Asian voters, who are most likely to be non-English speakers, consistently have the lowest voter turnout. On top of the built-in difficulties, voting barriers are arguably worse for people with limited English proficiency. They are more likely to be impoverished, meaning people with limited English proficiency are among the most in need of government assistance. Without equitable access to election materials, they are effectively barred from having a say in policies that greatly affect their lives. In order to have a representative government that serves all constituents, election resources need to be available in multiple languages. Provisions for multilingual election resources are coded into law by the Voting Rights Act. This landmark legislation leaves out languages such as Arabic and Haitian Creole because of a historically discriminatory system of language classification. This only makes it all the more important that all voters in the upcoming municipal elections are given information in their native languages..." #metaglossia_mundus: https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2023/10/opinion-importance-election-languages-variety
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What would a witch costume be without a pointy hat? Why do pirates wear so many accessories that would be impractical on the Seven Seas? And how did it come to be that throwing on a bedsheet was all you needed for a ghost costume? The outfits we wear for Halloween have a story to tell—one often far removed from the historical reality they’re said to represent….Continue reading… Via Online Marketing
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October 24, 2024 12:01 PM
"Educators and parents are often at odds regarding school cellphone policies. While teachers and principals may want to restrict students’ access to the distracting devices, parents want to be able to reach their children in case of emergencies."
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Connecting with students is a step towards increasing engagement in the classroom—whether face-to-face or online. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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October 28, 2024 2:37 PM
"Connecting with students shifts the obligation from the instructor working singularly to create an inclusive environment to one where the class works collectively to build the community."
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"As the world of work increasingly relies on the gig economy, higher ed is no different." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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October 22, 2024 11:03 AM
"It’s a common belief that professors teach most classes at our colleges, when the fact is that most students in American classrooms receive instruction from others, mostly graduate teaching assistants and adjuncts." 
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October 27, 2024 11:45 AM
La mayoría de las Universidades contrata profesores de tiempo parcial con menor paga, sin beneficios marginales y peores condiciones de trabajo. Es la tendencia que lleva años ocurriendo. Ahora, muchos educadores universitarios de nueva contratación tendrán que pasar sus días laborales viajando de una universidad a otra para ganarse la vida con un salario indigno y con la incertidumbre de no contratados el próximo ciclo académico.
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Olex.AI AI Assessment of English - Olex.AI is a Bett award-winning platform transforming the way schools, teachers, and students approach English writing, feedback, and assessment. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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"Media Literacy Week is From October 21st to the 25th. You might be interested in: The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More The Best Tools To Help …" Via Leona Ungerer, Yashy Tohsaku
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The home of Journalizr - the journaling app that writes for you. Never has it been so easy to start journaling. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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"The rise of generative AI has added another layer of complexity to discussions around the quality of online learning."