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onto Educational Technology News February 12, 2020 11:24 AM
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Addressing a crisis in adolescent literacy with strategies of learning
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Shadow AI poses cybersecurity risks and potential data breaches for schools
"[S]hadow AI is the unmonitored use of any unauthorized AI tool or platform by teachers, staff, or students, such as generative AI chatbots or data visualization tools. Having such unvetted AI programs can open schools to the potential for data breaches and other cybersecurity vulnerabilities."
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Today, 12:51 PM
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Flipped classroom pioneer Jon Bergmann wants better AI outside of the classroom and less AI during class time.
"Bergmann has developed a new teaching framework that combines flipped learning and mastery learning models with the modern realities of AI. He calls it The Mastery Flip, and its three pillars are designed to maximize the beneficial impact of AI while minimizing its harms and preparing students to harness this technology for the future."
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Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
"As machines become more capable of doing the labor of research and learning, what happens to higher education? What purpose does the university serve?"
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"Capturing responses to a survey of over 4,200 university faculty and college students in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico, the report found that nearly all students and educators are now using AI to facilitate personalized learning, provide real-time feedback, and increase productivity and efficiency."
"[T]hough broadly positive about AI’s role in higher education, faculty express concerns about regulation, governance, and their own preparedness."
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February 25, 11:27 AM
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How a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned-AI ethicist used assessment to personalize instruction before AI-powered edtech existed.
"With competing priorities and dwindling resources, teachers are using generative AI to assist with feedback. What happens when we rely on AI to assess student learning and grade their work?"
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February 25, 11:21 AM
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"Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking to a chatbot in a back-and-forth conversation. But over the past few months, it has become practical to use AI as an agent: you can assign them to a task and they do them, using tools as appropriate. Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses."
"[T]he question “which AI should I use?” has gotten harder to answer, because the answer now depends on what you’re trying to do with it."
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February 25, 11:16 AM
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"A quarter of all YC startups now ship code that’s 95% AI-written. And somewhere in Silicon Valley, a 22-year-old with no CS degree just launched an app used by 40,000 people — without writing a single line. Here’s the full, unfiltered story of who’s building the future, what’s working, what’s failing, and what it all means."
“A year ago, they would have built their product from scratch.
But now 95% of it is built by an AI. You don’t need a team of 50
engineers anymore."
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February 25, 11:11 AM
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"Self-regulated learning (SRL) is essential for effective learning, yet students often struggle to regulate in digital environments, including suboptimal learning tool use. The rapid integration of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) into learning settings raises questions about their role in supporting or hindering SRL."
"Chatbot interaction frequencies correlated positively with high cognitive activities; durations of chatbot use and high cognition negatively correlated with reading time."
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February 23, 1:07 PM
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"Today, district leaders are being asked to make irreversible budget decisions with fewer dollars and less margin for error than ever before. Yet many districts are making those decisions with limited evidence of what actually works in their classrooms — not because leaders lack interest in data, but because few systems are designed to support real-time learning at the district level."
"Traditional funding structures often require districts to commit to specific programs upfront, leaving little room for the iterative testing that defines effective research and development. As a result, districts are often forced to choose certainty over learning — even when that certainty is more assumed than proven."
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February 23, 1:01 PM
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In an AI era where homework can be generated instantly, the most valuable evidence of learning is human reasoning behind the finished product
"Long before generative AI entered the classroom, homework relied on a quiet, fragile assumption that what was submitted reflected independent understanding."
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February 23, 12:58 PM
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"Data collection is being automated. The strategic layer is wide open. The question is which side of that line you’re standing on."
"The research industry is getting commodified. A wave of AI-powered platforms can now conduct interviews, run surveys at scale, transcribe sessions, cluster themes, and deliver summary reports faster than any human team"
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February 23, 12:55 PM
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An AI agent is relational. It functions through ongoing access to your student's digital ecosystem.
"[E]very expansion of AI capability in the agentic era is, simultaneously, an expansion of data exposure. These aren’t separable. You don’t get the powerful AI assistant without giving it access. You don’t open the doors without accepting what flows through them."
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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."
"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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Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Franklin Township Schools (IN) Director of Technology Integration Nadine Gilkison and Superintendent Dr. Chase Huotari share their three-year journey moving beyond AI policy debates to create authentic learning experiences
"While many school districts remain stuck debating AI policies and compliance issues, Franklin Township Schools in Indiana has built something different: a culture in which artificial intelligence serves as a learning companion rather than another initiative to fear."
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A new federal AI framework is about practical workforce guidance rather than existential hand-wringing.
"The framework acknowledges something most AI guidance skips: not everyone is ready for AI literacy because not everyone has basic digital literacy."
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"For decades, a single question has dominated startup boardrooms and venture capitalist pitch meetings: “What’s your DAU/WAU/MAU?” The trinity of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Active Users has been the number 1 undisputed set of metrics. It has been widely considered the ultimate proxy for engagement and a key indicator of early signs of product-market fit for software companies."
"In the new paradigm of work, humans will interact with their AI agents, and those agents will, in turn, interact with our software on our behalf."
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With GenAI taking a larger role in research and education, Sorin Krammer looks at the data management habits academics can no longer ignore
"Most research institutions have explicit data management policies, many of which have been recently updated to address AI tools usage as well. Typically, these policies require that primary research materials be stored on institutional or otherwise secure and recoverable systems. Sensitive research or academic records should never be deposited on third-party, unvetted platforms."
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February 25, 11:24 AM
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Learn how faculty can use AI in teaching to save time, improve feedback, and strengthen pedagogy while keeping human connection at the center of learning.
"Used as a draftsperson—not a decision-maker—AI doesn’t replace your judgment; it depends on it. Your expertise is what transforms its raw output into meaningful teaching."
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February 25, 11:19 AM
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College administrators who are working smarter with AI chatbots share ideas for keeping data safe and boosting connections with staff.
"[U]sers should treat every prompt like a public record"
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February 25, 11:14 AM
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"OPINION Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.
Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy information. Technically, it is not a "bug" but a structural byproduct of greedy decoding and RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback)."
"By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses."
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February 23, 1:09 PM
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After being accused of cheating, a student sued his university and won. He denied ever having cheating on his essay.
"The ruling last month, reported by NewsDay, found the claims that Orion Newby had used AI to commit plagiarism were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason.'”
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February 23, 1:03 PM
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Research uncovers a critical gap in preparing college students for real-world careers that will be largely AI enabled.
"[W]while roughly half of students expect to rely on AI in their future careers, and believe AI proficiency may matter more than a college degree, only 31 percent are aware of AI courses offered by their institutions, and fewer than 20 percent have taken them."
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February 23, 1:00 PM
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"The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI "tsunami" wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years."
"Tasks that are eliminated are usually what entry-level jobs do at present, so young people searching for jobs find it harder to get to a good placement."
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February 23, 12:56 PM
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Screen time is rising among the youngest students. Experts explain its effect on literacy skills.
"About one-third of children entering preschool in 2025 didn’t know how to handle a book properly, with some trying to swipe at pages as if they were a phone or tablet."
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February 23, 12:51 PM
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"In recent years, a growing chorus of critics has argued that laptops and digital devices are undermining student learning. Headlines warn of distraction, declining attention spans, and deteriorating academic performance. In response, some schools have moved to restrict or even eliminate laptop use in classrooms altogether.
Yet this framing—technology as the culprit—rests on a flawed assumption. A closer reading of contemporary research suggests a different conclusion:"
"Laptops do not inherently degrade cognition or learning. Poorly designed instructional systems using laptops do."
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