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onto Educational Technology News April 6, 2015 3:34 PM
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"Regardless of whether you think every infant needs an iPad, I think we can all agree that technology has changed education for the better. Today’s learners now enjoy easier, more efficient access to information; opportunities for extended and mobile learning; the ability to give and receive immediate feedback; and greater motivation to learn and engage."
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College and career counseling is tough these days. Some schools are banking on the idea that AI can help.
"With human resources strained, schools are now considering how to use AI to create more opportunities to meaningfully advise students on how to approach the future."
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A school leader’s poor digital habits can create more unnecessary work and confusion for everyone.
"[A] school leader’s digital habits have a direct impact on the entire school, sometimes for the worse."
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"We frequently hear that AI won’t make jobs disappear, but it will change them. To me, one sign that this is already happening is that many job descriptions already feel strangely out of date."
"What has become apparent is that AI doesn’t actually automate jobs. Instead, it automates the individual tasks that make up jobs."
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Wispr Flow and the slew of AI voice-to-text technology are shifting us from written to spoken communication. What does this mean for teaching oracy and literacy in schools? The Technology That Made Me Rethink My Entire Approach to Writing I'm dictating this blog post. Not transcribing a draft I've written by hand, not reading from…
"Voice-to-text technology isn’t new. What’s new is the quality, the ubiquity, and the implications. What’s being missed in the excitement about productivity gains is that we’re witnessing a fundamental shift from the written word back to the spoken word as a primary mode of communication and thought expression."
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February 11, 11:42 AM
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"Some education experts are prepared for the sector’s growing disenchantment with generative artificial intelligence. Others believe it will improve college systems and processes."
"Institutions will seek to scale AI strategies and develop ways to measure their impact."
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February 11, 11:37 AM
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As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.
"OpenAI and Anthropic are perusing the same thing: NGI (Natural General Intelligence). NGI is AI that is sentient and self aware. The difference is the Anthropic seeking NGI with guardrails"
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February 10, 11:01 AM
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A position-based approach notes that what we learn and how we learn it vary by role, experience level, environment, and context.
"By mapping learning to those workflows, we are able to create microlearning that is intuitive and of immediate value."
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February 10, 10:57 AM
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As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. Around 7 million articles are in English.
"Wikipedia is one of the top sources mentioned in Google search results and is used to train large language models that power many artificial intelligence technologies."
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February 10, 10:54 AM
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New regulations around screen time and AI could push edtech companies towards better outcomes—if they can demonstrate real educational value
"[I]f edtech is lumped in with all social media, AI, and consumer tech, we are in for a bumpy ride in 2026"
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February 10, 10:46 AM
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How will AI change learning and instruction? How can we best prepare students for the AI World?
Jensen Huang: "'reading a room well is arguably more important than an SAT score.' That’s not a soft-skills platitude from a motivational speaker. That’s the CEO of the most valuable company on Earth telling us that the entire measurement infrastructure of American education may be optimizing for the wrong thing."
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February 9, 12:55 PM
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When educators design learning intentionally, AI becomes another tool students learn to use
"Responsible use of AI in schools does not begin with tools. It begins with clarity."
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February 9, 12:50 PM
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"Assessment is fast becoming a central focus in the higher education debate as we move into an era of generative AI, but too often institutions are responding through compliance and risk-management actions rather than fundamental pedagogical reform. Tightened regulations, expanded scrutiny and mechanistic controls may reassure quality assurance systems, but they run the risk of diluting genuine transformation and placing unsustainable pressure on staff and students alike."
"If reform is driven through compliance, we will miss opportunities to align assessments with the learning needs of a graduate entering the gen-AI era."
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"Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar prompt, one we have returned to countless times over the past decade.
This time felt different. The task was to triangulate, even pinpoint, what these concepts mean in today’s educational landscape."
"If machines can do much of what we once taught students to do, what should learning now require?"
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Strength, creativity and humanity of educators and IT leaders will be the driving forces behind true edtech innovation.
"A purposeful commitment to responsible edtech use–and to professional development for teachers–is necessary to ensure edtech is innovative and transformational"
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Frequent use of AI in the workplace has continued to rise, while overall use has remained level. Use varies widely by industry, role type and job level.
"The total percentage of employees using AI remains flat, but use varies meaningfully by industry and role type."
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Listen The promise of artificial intelligence in higher education isn't to replace human work but to create space for the human interaction students value most. Cue the irony: Students love and actively use artificial intelligence (AI), but they still want humans in charge.
"Cue the irony: Students love and actively use artificial intelligence (AI), but they still want humans in charge."
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I'm dictating this whilst driving to the gym - well the first draft at any rate. Not because I'm irresponsible behind the wheel - the car has plenty of bells and whistles to catch my lapses and I’m still as focused on my driving as I would be if I were talking to a passenger…
"Now AI has arrived, capable of generating polished prose from a prompt, and we’re panicking about the death of writing. But the crisis isn’t that machines can now generate text. It’s that in education we never properly understood what writing was in the first place – or at least we’ve never truly applied it."
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February 11, 11:40 AM
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"When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instructors’ time, the professor says."
Stahuljak "reflected on the backlash and benefits of using the textbook—and what may be holding other faculty back from embracing AI’s power to enhance teaching and learning."
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February 11, 11:35 AM
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AI literacy in higher education must extend beyond plagiarism. Learn why cross-disciplinary AI literacy prepares students ethically, academically, and socially.
"If AI is already woven into the fabric of students’ lives, why are we still treating AI literacy as an optional add-on?"
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February 10, 11:00 AM
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New book argues it’s not the tools we use but the values we hold that make the difference in education
Key takeaway from the book: "Education is not a matter of tools; it is a matter of values."
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February 10, 10:56 AM
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"Lately I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how AI is affecting my high school English students. For now, at least, I seemed to have developed a system to keep most AI usage at bay. Last week I finished reading and scoring 100 junior essays analyzing Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Of the 100, I identified only three papers that were AI-written. Is it possible that there were more and I just missed them?"
"Layering in multiple strategies reduces student dependency on AI"
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February 10, 10:51 AM
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How this year’s BETT UK suggested a cultural shift toward accountability and impact-focused governance in EdTech
"EdTech 1.0 largely sidestepped issues like data integrity, participant protection, or conflict-of-interest management. EdTech 2.0 requires understanding how tools actually function in real contexts, and supplementing experimental and quasi-experimental studies with deep qualitative research in classrooms and homes."
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February 9, 12:56 PM
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As more legislation sweeps the nation limiting children’s phone usage in schools, a new report shows not all laws are created equal.
"Only two states in the nation received “A” marks, with most states lacking explicit rules"
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February 9, 12:53 PM
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Gain practical HyFlex teaching strategies that support in-person and remote students through accessible course design, active learning, and inclusive practices.
"HyFlex may never be seamless, but small, consistent choices made it far more equitable and rewarding. Designing with accessibility in mind benefited every student, not just those with specific needs."
