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"As a computing teacher, I obviously love technology. Also, like most people, I love my smartphone. It never leaves my side, day or night, and it is always there when I need it to fill an awkward social moment or a 2-minute wait in a supermarket queue. Recently, however, I have questioned my relationship with my smartphone. Do I really need it by my side day and night? How does it affect my real life relationships and general concentration?"
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While some experts suggest AI integration for teaching and learning, schools still have to figure out how to pay for it.
"Most conversations about generative artificial intelligence in schools eventually zoom in on using AI in the classroom. Before districts redesign teaching and learning around AI, they may need to answer a more fundamental question: Can schools afford an AI-first future?"
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While not all are of equal value, a new survey from Coursera found that the vast majority of employers are inclined to offer higher starting salaries to candidates with microcredentials. Both students and employers say microcredentials are valuable assets in today’s tough job market, new data shows.
"As technology, economic uncertainty, and demographic shifts reshape the labor market, employers are increasingly prioritizing verified, job-relevant skills...micro-credentials can play in helping learners build career-relevant skills"
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The head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods. Banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education risks shutting down conversations about how to innovate in pedagogy, according to a learning expert at Google Deepmind.
"Banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education risks shutting down conversations about how to innovate in pedagogy"
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June 9, 9:34 AM
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The result comes from OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model, which tricked the judges into thinking it was the human 73% of the time, while another model was just 56%.
"[I]n short text conversations, under a specific experimental design, it's possible for an LLM to be mistaken for a person more often than the person it's paired against."
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June 9, 9:29 AM
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The absence of desirable difficulty in AI interactions effectively ignores the biology of human learning.
"The ultimate goal of using AI in learning should go beyond generating answers—it should aim to cultivate resilient, creative, and capable human minds, fully equipped to tackle complex challenges. This is what true deep learning achieves."
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June 9, 9:22 AM
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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."
"For generations, schools treated knowledge acquisition as the central hurdle. If students could read closely, recall accurately and write coherently, they were considered prepared. Tasks that once demonstrated understanding now signal access."
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June 9, 9:19 AM
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When students don’t see the point of an activity, they often turn to AI for a shortcut. Here’s how to make learning meaningful and relevant
"If a task seems lengthy or irrelevant, students will naturally seek the shortest path to completion. By banning AI, we risk overlooking the root cause. A better response would be to pivot from policing technology to designing for relevance."
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June 8, 12:04 PM
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As AI becomes increasingly abundant and continuously available, institutional governance must evolve accordingly.
"The challenge is not that institutions are moving too quickly towards AI adoption, but that higher education is approaching AI primarily as a technology implementation problem rather than as a structural transformation of learning, and hence how institutional value is defined and operationalized."
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"Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how learning is assessed in higher education, raising important questions about what students learn and how they are expected to demonstrate that learning. Based on a 2026 survey of 438 faculty and staff, this EDUCAUSE report explores how educators are responding in practice, from evolving assessment design to changing expectations around AI use and academic integrity."
"The findings reveal growing momentum around the use of AI in assessment alongside real uncertainty, highlighting both new opportunities and emerging challenges."
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"Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher’s union in the United States, has now launched a major campaign calling on schools to keep AI and hardware like iPads out of elementary classrooms."
"The second-largest teacher's union in the United States is calling for a sweeping ban on AI in elementary classrooms."
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June 8, 11:51 AM
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Discover how faculty can use AI as a reflective partner to design sustainable academic workflows, manage workload, prevent burnout, and support work-life balance.
"In online teaching environments especially, work expands quietly and persistently. There is always another post to read, another draft to refine, another student in need of reassurance. Over time, this expansion erodes boundaries. When boundaries erode, reflective practice gives way to reactive performance."
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No AI algorithm can replace the human dialogue that helps students feel seen, challenged, and understood by their teachers.
"We should use AI in ways that strengthen instruction without weakening connections between teachers and students"
Should we priviledge student-teacher relationship or AI feedback?
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A new survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation finds that the vast majority of teachers have not received formal guidance on how to use AI in their work, and about a third have gotten none.
"A new report suggests that districts are moving on AI faster than many expected, but the infrastructure needed to do it responsibly is struggling to keep up."
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Your finger hovering over the “Allow” button.
A pop‑up window appears on your laptop. On your phone. Maybe even on your smart glasses someday.
“Copilot, or Gemini, or ChatGPT with screen recording wants access to:
One click. That’s all it takes."
"One click, and it promises to finally understand you. To finish your sentences. To remind you of the name of that actor. To draft emails that sound exactly like you. But as your heartbeat quickens...a question whispers from the back of your mind: Is this freedom…or is this a velvet cage?"
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Do your AI literacy efforts account for the full range of ways AI can hurt you, cognitively? AI has … introduced entirely new categories of harm.” —Brookings
"Over time, slack can leave you so dependent on AI that you accept its outputs more or less at face value and give up thinking for yourself altogether"
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June 9, 9:37 AM
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"OpenAI intends to ditch the prompts and features, betting that its models will be able to automatically understand users’ intentions when they are on the app or site."
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June 9, 9:31 AM
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Ironically, the rise of intelligent systems (AI) may make these deeply human capabilities even more valuable.
"What kinds of expertise still matter when information, summaries, frameworks, and even simulated insight become endlessly available?"
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‘It’s not looking good’: The unemployment rate for recent grads is the highest in five years, but AI is not primarily to blame — at least not yet
"Labor experts say AI hasn’t cannibalized much entry-level or white-collar work just yet, even as the technology injects more uncertainty into an already tight market."
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June 9, 9:20 AM
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Threat or opportunity? Advice for using, managing and embedding artificial intelligence in university assessment, skills development and task design
"As AI technologies become ubiquitous, educators must consider how to design assignments that work with these tools in productive ways to aid learning and AI literacy."
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"[A]s the country wrestles with restricting screens, some parents and disability advocates are beginning to express concerns about whether students who rely on accessibility tools are being excluded from the rulemaking process. Some of these advocates say they agree that new tech restrictions are necessary, but they are calling for careful consideration in how these rules are written."
“We've got to make sure we're not stomping on kids that are actually utilizing these devices for really important reasons.”
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June 8, 12:03 PM
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Teachers and students need agency as they are voicing concern and disagreement over administrators’ edtech purchasing decisions.
"Teachers are the closest source for identifying what is missing from the classroom, and when school leaders start there rather than at the vendor’s value proposition, the solution space opens up in ways that serve schools better."
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June 8, 11:59 AM
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"There is a sound a certain generation can still replay without effort. The dial-up modem shrieking, that wavering hum like two machines introducing themselves awkwardly, then a click, then silence. After the click, the internet left. Not minimized. Not pushed to the background. Gone, somewhere else, and you were returned to the physical room you were sitting in, with the slowing fan of the computer and the wall clock suddenly audible again."
"Logging off was an action. It had a verb. You closed something, and the day resumed its other texture."
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June 8, 11:52 AM
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"AI-infused apps are different from traditional software. Apps that embed large language models, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or tool-calling workflows bring their own characteristics. They combine deterministic code with probabilistic intelligence. This creates new failure modes that standard testing practices cannot fully address."
"Reliable AI delivery isn't either/or—it's both/and. Test conventionally for functionality. Evaluate probabilistically for quality. Deploy with dual-discipline confidence."
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June 5, 11:08 AM
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AI platforms are not replacing traditional eLearning systems, but are offering smarter content, and personalized and faster support.
"Instead of pushing everyone through the same tunnel, AI-supported learning can behave more like a coach. It notices patterns. It responds. It adapts. And that is where the old eLearning model begins to look limited."
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Campuses are spending big on AV technology and wondering why it still doesn't just work. The answer isn't better gear. It's a better foundation.
"AV reliability starts with infrastructure: Unreliable classroom technology is often an infrastructure problem, not a hardware problem."
Hmmm.... my smart devices may be getting the better of me.