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6 Killer Ways in Which AR/VR Can Change Chemistry Lessons 

6 Killer Ways in Which AR/VR Can Change Chemistry Lessons  | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"When Watson and Crick were figuring out the double helix shape of our DNA, they actually used a set of molecular models, similar to toys used in preschool. Being able to feel and see them in 3D definitely has its advantages. And, when it comes to how microscopic entities interact, why leave it all to the imagination? We’ve seen generations of students struggling to understand and remember concepts in chemistry through the written word, most of which is literally Greek. The use of Augmented and Virtual Reality can actually turn chemistry from a dreaded subject to a really cool one."

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I sure wish these tools were available back in the early 1980s when I was taking Chemistry. I may have enjoyed (and understood) it more.

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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education?

Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond

 

Edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil & Maria Elena Corbeil (2025)

 

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology!

 

If you are designing a course that addresses generative AI in education, this award-winning volume provides a research-driven, classroom-ready foundation. Rather than offering hype or fear, this book helps educators:

  • Ground AI integration in learning theory and research
  • Address academic integrity with thoughtful, practical strategies
  • Redesign assessment for an AI-enabled world
  • Explore ethics, bias, privacy, and institutional responsibility
  • Leverage AI to enhance critical thinking and digital literacy


Bookended by historical and forward-looking analyses of AI in education, the chapters move beyond surface-level discussions to provide evidence-based approaches for real classrooms—K–12, higher education, and professional learning environments.

This text is ideal for:

  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
  • Curriculum & Instruction courses
  • Educational Technology programs
  • Higher education faculty development
  • School technology coordinators and talent development professionals

Adopting a GenAI textbook for an upcoming semester?

We invite you to request an inspection copy and explore how this resource can support your students in navigating AI with skill, ethics, and informed judgment.

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Award-winning "Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI" offers research-based, practical guidance for educators seeking to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into their courses—request an inspection copy: https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781032688602.

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Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals

Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"As higher ed institutions pay tech companies millions to provide students and faculty access to custom AI-powered tools, some faculty in Colorado and California are pushing back."

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"More than a year after the California State University system spent $17 million to give all students, faculty and staff access to ChatGPT Edu in the name of workforce readiness, thousands don’t want the system to renew its contract with OpenAI."

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The Quest to Build a Better AI Tutor

The Quest to Build a Better AI Tutor | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Researchers make progress with an older ed tech idea: personalized practice.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"It’s easy to get swept up in the hype about artificial intelligence tutors. But the evidence so far suggests caution."

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What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

"There are a growing number of companies offering social chatbots that can act like friends, enemies, lovers, adventurous companions, or the manifestation of a fictional or real person you’ve always wanted to meet. You can pick A.I. Elon Musk’s brain or spar with A.I. Draco Malfoy. The myriad characters, often created by fellow users, offer drama, romance, therapy and LOLs."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]eens who have less social experience, and are lonely, are more attracted to chatbots."

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The Hidden Cost of AI in Schools

The Hidden Cost of AI in Schools | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
6 ways school leaders should adjust how AI is used so as to avoid teacher overload and potential burnout
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI does not reduce work, but intensifies it. Workers complete tasks more quickly, but instead of reclaiming time, they take on more. The result is greater cognitive load, longer work hours, and expanded responsibilities."

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ChatGPT’s impact on student learning outcomes: a meta-analysis of 35 experimental studies

ChatGPT’s impact on student learning outcomes: a meta-analysis of 35 experimental studies | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology, the potential educational applications of Chat generative pre-trained transformers (ChatGPT) have attracted significant attention. However, the research on the specific effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes and its moderating factors remains insufficient. This study aimed to quantify the effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes and explore relevant moderating variables using a meta-analysis approach."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The analysis included 35 studies published between 2022 and 2024, involving 4193 participants. The results indicated a moderately positive effect of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes (g = 0.670), significantly enhancing both cognitive and non-cognitive skills."

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Perfect homework, blank stares: Colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI

Perfect homework, blank stares: Colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Educators are no longer naively wondering if students will use generative AI to do their homework for them. A big question now is how to determine what students are actually learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Educators are no longer naively wondering if students will use generative AI to do their homework for them. A big question now is how to determine what students are actually learning."

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AI is rewriting the rules. Language is following.

"Language has always evolved. But this time, it’s being rewired faster than most of us can keep up with, and our sentences are caught in the middle."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"We train AI on human-generated text. AI redistributes that text back to us, statistically optimised and lightly laundered. We absorb it, repeat it, and feed it back in again. Over time, the boundary between what the machine sounds like and what we sound like starts to blur."

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Context matters… A lot

"Building intuitive AI products requires designing for context management"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"It’s easy to assume...[that LLM] models just aren’t 'smart enough' yet. But that’s not quite right. The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s context."

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The New AI Risk Isn’t What Models Say. It’s What Agents Do

"AI agents are starting to look less like chatbots and more like services. They can coordinate tasks, call tools and make changes in production systems without a human reviewing every step. For large enterprises, that autonomy is both an opportunity and a risk. The question is no longer whether an AI system can generate a good answer. It is whether you can govern what the system does."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"When software is allowed to 'do,' not just 'say,' governance becomes an infrastructure requirement."

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Video: AI v The Mind: Who has the edge?

Video: AI v The Mind: Who has the edge? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
In a new series, we will test the limits of the latest AI technology by pitting it against human experts.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The lines between human and AI capability are increasingly blurred. For some that's terrifying, for others it will open up new worlds of possibility."

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April 1, 1:46 PM
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A viral case against screens in schools is winning converts. Does the evidence hold up?

A viral case against screens in schools is winning converts. Does the evidence hold up? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
In his book and Senate testimony, a neuroscientist offers a three-pronged case against screens and edtech in schools.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"There’s no smoking-gun data showing that ed-tech is at the root of, or even contributing to, recent learning declines."

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What Do We Teach Now?

What Do We Teach Now? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
What are you doing to ensure that the degree and certificate candidates at your institution are prepared to thrive in the new environment that is emerging in this year and next? Technologists, economists and visionaries are warning us that in the next three to 18 months, we are going to experience rapid and pervasive disruption of our professional lives, workplace models and distribution of income. Professional positions requiring college degrees will be lost, remade into highly productive, cost-efficient, hybrid human-AI models where human contributions and compensation will collectively shrink and evaporate.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"What are you doing to ensure that the degree and certificate candidates at your institution are prepared to thrive in the new environment that is emerging in this year and next?"

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Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks

Too Many Tools, Not Enough Impact: Districts Rethink Their Edtech Stacks | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
QUALITY OVER QUANTITY: A re-examination of digital tools was already underway in districts, as part of curriculum reviews and budget trimming afte
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“We’re trying to get much [clearer] about what this is going to address,” says Warden. “What do we need students to learn, and which tools will help us understand where they are?”

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The next phase of higher education will blend digital and human learning

The next phase of higher education will blend digital and human learning | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI is transforming higher education with personalized learning, hybrid models, and smarter systems—while redefining quality, access, and future-ready skills.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"As higher education stands at the crossroads of rapid technological transformation, Artificial Intelligence and digital learning are reshaping not just how knowledge is delivered, but how it is experienced."

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Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least

Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The technology is always on call and is quite competent. But it lacks the contemplation and attention to detail that yield great works of art.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The technology can certainly save time, but it does so precisely to the extent that the user is willing to surrender control over the final product."

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Generation AI starts early: A guide to technologies already shaping young children's lives

Generation AI starts early: A guide to technologies already shaping young children's lives | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI is already in young children's lives. Sweta Shah explains the current landscape of AI-enabled products affecting young children.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A child’s early years—from birth to 8 years—are critical to development. At this age, the effects of AI—some of which is “invisible”—are especially consequential."

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When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach

When AI Gets It Wrong: A Pedagogical Approach | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Discover how using AI to teach critical thinking in higher education turns AI errors into powerful classroom strategies that build information literacy and academic judgment.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"When AI gets things wrong, it creates powerful teachable moments. Giving students an AI-produced answer that contains mistakes pushes them to slow down, test claims, and fix problems."

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College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A pilot study analyzing college students’ writing with AI shows an interactive process, from brainstorming to editing the output produced by chatbots.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[S]tudents appear to be negotiating when and how AI belongs in their writing."

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Building next-horizon AI experiences

"Many organizations are struggling to scale gen AI and agentic AI. But adoption challenges are not technical—they are experiential. Here’s how to design AI tools that people will embrace."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In many of today’s AI tools, users tend to oscillate between accepting outputs uncritically or abandoning tools when the results are disappointing. AI-native experiences must make collaboration, review, correction, and intervention feel like a natural part of the workflow."

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Is AI addiction a thing?

"An article published in 2025 proposed a newly observed disorder called Generative AI Addiction Syndrome (GAID), describing how some users feel anxious when cut off from AI, lose sleep over it, or withdraw from social contact. Is AI really addictive, or is it the way it’s designed that hooks us? As AI becomes more common, these are questions worth asking."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Researchers define AI addiction by three core traits: loss of control over use, continuing despite negative consequences, and anxiety when access is cut off."

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AI could undermine meaningful learning unless feedback stays rooted in connection, study recommends

"The rise of generative AI in higher education is reshaping how feedback is delivered, but meaningful learning could be undermined if its use is not carefully guided by principles of care, trust and connection, according to new research led by the University of Surrey. Published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, the paper explores how generative AI technologies, including chatbots such as ChatGPT, are transforming feedback for students—highlighting both the opportunities and risks of AI in education."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"While AI can generate responses at speed and scale, researchers argue it cannot fully replicate the judgment and relationships that make feedback effective. Instead, they call for a "care-full" approach—one that treats feedback not as a set of comments, but as an ongoing process of dialogue, reflection and growth. Without this, they warn, it risks reducing feedback to a transactional exercise rather than a meaningful part of learning."

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The Rise Of AI Policy Firewalls: Why Every AI Agent Will Need A Guardrail Layer

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly moving beyond chatbots and copilots. A new generation of AI agents is beginning to perform real actions. These agents can access APIs, move money, retrieve data, write code, interact with customers and even coordinate other agents.

 

That shift raises a simple but critical question: Who is watching what the agent actually does?"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A policy firewall sits between the AI agent and the systems it wants to interact with. It acts as a checkpoint that intercepts and evaluates every action before it happens."

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Learning Mindset: How To Build It In The Age Of AI

Learning Mindset: How To Build It In The Age Of AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Explore the concept of a learning mindset and its importance for organizations in today's fast-paced, AI-driven world.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"As AI and automation reshape how work gets done, roles evolve faster than job descriptions can keep up. The half-life of skills is shrinking, which means what employees know today may lose value much sooner than expected."

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Responsible Use Is The New Acceptable Use: One District's Pragmatic Playbook for the AI Era

Responsible Use Is The New Acceptable Use: One District's Pragmatic Playbook for the AI Era | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Conversations with Kevin Hogan—Pineville ISD technology coordinator Kenzo Vanhaesebroeck explains why vague-on-purpose policy, a grading scale for AI use, and teacher-to-teacher modeling are the best defenses a small district has against an overnight technological revolution
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

With every other platform, we had a little bit of a heads up...With AI, we didn't even have a chance to really put policy in place before Google, Meta, all these big companies just said, 'Hey, it's here, it's integrated.'"

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Designers finally have a say in the product they design.

"AI didn’t teach designers to code. It gave them back the decisions that were always theirs."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"For designers who’ve spent years watching their craft get approximated on the other side of a handoff, that’s a meaningful change. The gate was never locked. We just needed tools that made it obvious."

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