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David W. Deeds
onto EdTech: The New Normal January 15, 7:38 PM
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We haven’t done one of these in a while! But since I presented on OpenSim statistics at the OSCC conference in December, it seemed like a good time to look back at what happened in the OpenSim community this year. 2025 was a year of dramatic highs and lows for OpenSim.
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New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble.
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A truly loyal AI bot would say: "Hey, don't tell me your credit card number! Are you crazy?" ;)
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Regardless of political affiliation, 79% of parents want more protection for kids.
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The idea that AI can let teachers carve out more time for students is appealing, intuitive—and wrong.
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Interesting opinion. I don't agree...but it's interesting. ;)
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"While it was once a faraway and futuristic idea, AI has now found its way into many aspects of everyday life, including higher education. This is what Patrick Dempsey, founder and co-CEO of Pend AI, spoke about in his keynote lecture on Feb. 18.
He began the talk with a trivia quiz about actor Patrick Dempsey. Once a winner was declared, he revealed the point of the exercise. He’d created the questions, Gemini AI created the multiple choice answers and Bubble AI had put together the quiz, demonstrating what AI is capable of and the technology that today’s students are surrounded by." Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Yashy Tohsaku
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Thanks to Yashy Tohsaku.
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March 16, 2:44 PM
"Higher education is, at least in part, meant to equip students with the skills and specialized knowledge from their fields they will need in their careers after graduation. For this reason, Dempsey weighed in on the discourse surrounding AI in the workplace. While many worry that AI will automate jobs wholesale, he posited that AI could be used to automate certain tasks within jobs that don’t require this specialized knowledge, like emailing and meetings."
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Two reports detail ways young people are engaging with AI and how it impacts their mental health.
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That doesn’t mean people approve of social media or even like it. They just can’t imagine being without it.
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"That doesn’t mean people approve of social media or even like it. They just can’t imagine being without it."
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About 20% of student interactions with AI using school technology involved problematic behaviors.
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"Stop wasting time on busywork. Discover nine practical ways to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini to automate your daily routine, summarize documents, and reclaim your free time...." Via Leona Ungerer, Yashy Tohsaku
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Thanks to Yashy Tohsaku.
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See five highlights from EdWeek's annual, national survey of U.S. teachers.
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This is interesting.
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Parents are the third rail of the discipline conversation. Teachers say they need backup from their school leaders.
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Yup.
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The EdWeek Research Center looked at whether schools are giving more or fewer out-of-school assignments, and why.
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I have NEVER assigned homework!
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"Most AI literacy curricula begin and end with the same lesson: here’s how to use ChatGPT responsibly. Learn to prompt. Check your sources. Don’t plagiarize. That’s not AI literacy. That’s a typing tutorial for 2023." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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This is interesting.
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February 26, 1:02 PM
"The world students are entering — the world that’s arriving right now — requires something far more comprehensive. The chatbot is just the opening act. What follows is an AI environment that will reshape how young people think, feel, relate, work, and build their identities." |
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Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
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*Sigh* The Metaverse will be better off without Meta. ;)
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Most educators point to the intense workload that doesn't stop after the school day ends.
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Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice. Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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This is interesting.
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March 17, 10:02 AM
"Predictive language technologies have become so routine – baked into smartphones, email services and chatbots – that we barely notice them anymore. But they raise a difficult question: What happens to a writer’s unique voice when AI routinely completes their thoughts – or generates them altogether from scratch?"
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Educators pointed to everything from classroom size to the amount of autonomy they're given.
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Only 7 things?! ;)
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Let's not get carried away here... ;)
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Scary stuff. Thanks to Tom D'Amico.
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In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
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Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
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This is more than just a little weird. ;)
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Gen Z teachers grew up in an era of unbridled tech. It shapes how they approach classroom technology.
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There’s fear among many educators that students are using AI to do most of their critical thinking.
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Maybe we should ask a chatbot. ;)
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Three-plus years after the public release of ChatGPT, teachers' experiences with AI vary enormously.
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They're hopeless Luddites?? ;)
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Via essays, poems, videos, artwork and graphics, 35 students across the globe reflect on how this technology is affecting teenagers.
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