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EDTECH@UTRGV
onto Educational Technology News June 30, 2020 12:32 PM
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"Micro-credentials are gaining ground as a form of professional learning for educators. Interest in micro-credentials continues to increase as more schools, districts, and states launch pilots to learn more about successful micro-credential implementation. Digital Promise has fielded a high volume of questions about how micro-credentials are being adopted, recognized, and valued across the education landscape."
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Watch this video to learn more about the fully online, accelerated, project-based Master of Education in Educational Technology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. For more information, visit: https://www.utrgv.edu/edtech/index.htm
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
This 30-hour accelerated program designed to prepare persons in K-12, higher education, corporate, and military settings to develop the skills and knowledge necessary for the classrooms and boardrooms of tomorrow. Students in this program have the opportunity to earn one or more graduate certificates in E-Learning, Technology Leadership, and Online Instructional Design.
harrietwatkins's curator insight,
August 24, 2024 10:34 PM
This is a fantastic program! Its practical, real-world based and applicable to many areas of industry where teaching and learning, training and development are used.
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May 19, 3:46 PM
Using technology in education proves affective in helping students/ learners accelerate their learning progress.
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Artificial Intelligence both terrifies and fascinates me. I have been an educator for 39 years, and as a classroom teacher, I, like all teachers, am navigating the new world of AI. This year, I have been experimenting with AI tools to help my students and me learn more deeply. I know AI
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Many current students will be downgraded by AI, and that future might be inevitable without a radical change in how we do school."
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The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office estimated that 31.4 percent of student applications in 2024 were fraudulent, coming from bots or AI agents being used to steal financial aid money.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"ghost students are artificially intelligent agents or bots that pose as real students in order to steal millions of dollars of financial aid"
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AI demands that education updates its teaching, assessment, and policies without abandoning academic integrity and deep learning.
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"AI demands that education updates its teaching, assessment, and policies without abandoning the core values of academic integrity and deep learning."
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A behaviorist approach to teaching that responds to student needs provides better instruction and leads them to achieve prescribed learning outcomes.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When AI fails, we don’t punish it. We redesign the prompt. When students struggle, we should do the same."
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The vast majority of today's college students — 93% — believe generative AI training should be included in degree programs, according to a recent Coursera report. What's more, 86% of students consider gen AI the most crucial technical skill for career preparation, prioritizing it above in-demand skills such as data strategy and software development.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"74% of employers report challenges sourcing generative AI talent. 69% of entry-level employees would like employer-supported gen AI training; only 33% currently receive it."
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Can you apply the pyramid approach in eLearning? Of course, and with great benefits. Find out about them here.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The pyramid approach is a learning model with three stages: foundation, understanding, and mastery, building knowledge from basics to real-life application."
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The President’s executive order calls for AI literacy, a national AI challenge, and more.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Advocates for AI use in education have been saying AI needs to be integrated into teaching for several years now, but many were still surprised by this announcement."
ang.garza42@gmail.com's curator insight,
May 24, 8:45 PM
The new executive order called for a new AI task force to prepare and establish plans for a Presidential AI challenge to encourage and highlight student achievement. Additionally, the order calls to prioritize AI grant programs for teachers and for research on effective uses of AI in education. This order isn’t a mandate but rather an encouragement and recommendations that focus on how to begin a plan for educator training around AI use, and once they fully understand AI, they are able to implement responsible AI use for their students.
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"In the ever-evolving development of education, we are now crossing another critical threshold – one defined not merely by digital tools or online platforms but by the convergence of human intellect and machine intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer confined to the realm of speculative fiction; it has become a transformative force in reimagining what learning can and should be."""AI can perform certain tasks – grading repetitive assignments, monitoring patterns of engagement, recommending learning materials. It cannot, however, equal the human capacity to move, to be present, to recognise affective nuance or to lead students through uncertainty and ambiguity."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI can perform certain tasks – grading repetitive assignments, monitoring patterns of engagement, recommending learning materials. It cannot, however, equal the human capacity to move, to be present, to recognise affective nuance or to lead students through uncertainty and ambiguity."
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"As educators, we’re constantly bombarded with new technologies promising to revolutionise our classrooms. Artificial Intelligence has certainly generated its share of both excitement and skepticism (and let’s be honest, a fair bit of eye-rolling too). However, beyond the debates and theoretical discussions, there are practical, immediate applications that can genuinely enhance our teaching practice today."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Text differentiation is where AI truly shines as a practical classroom tool. While dedicated platforms like Diffit offer purpose-built solutions (not a bad way to go, works fairly effectively as an out-of-the-box solution), you can achieve excellent results with general-purpose LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini if you approach them thoughtfully."
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"Imagine contacting an e-commerce company about your recently placed order. An AI chatbot instantly retrieves your order status or product details. But, when your query requires a more empathetic response or an exception to a policy, the AI seamlessly escalates the issue to a human representative who steps in to resolve it."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This is augmented intelligence in action, wherein AI doesn’t replace humans; it enhances human capabilities. By handling repetitive, data-driven tasks, AI allows humans to focus on strategic decision-making, creativity and ethical considerations. This collaborative approach ensures responsible AI adoption that aligns technological advancements with business objectives and societal values."
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A webinar this week featuring panelists from the education, private and nonprofit sectors attested to how institutions are applying generative artificial intelligence to advising, admissions, research and IT.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Many higher education leaders have expressed hope about the potential of artificial intelligence but uncertainty about where to implement it safely and effectively."
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Interviews with more than a dozen teachers reveal three distinct ways Artificial Intelligence is making their jobs easier and enhancing student performance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The road to integrating AI in education isn’t without bumps, but educators across the country are finding in AI a fresh source of creativity and connection."
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"As AI increasingly pervades internal processes, so too do threat actors. For example, GenAI tools amplify the scale and impact of polymorphic malware that can evade existing detection systems, and phishing campaigns using AI-led personalization are extremely convincing with a high success rate."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]hreat research labs (CTRL) revealed five trends defining how bad actors will further exploit AI to advance their malicious intentions."
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"The next world is AI-integrated, project-driven, future-focused, and human-inspired. Is AI bad? Is AI good? Should we recoil in fear or embrace a new technology that some believe holds the seeds of our own destruction as creative human beings? That's the divide now. And schools, more than any other institution, are destined to face the dilemma of AI."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"PBL 2.0... offers a methodology that engages them as facilitators, co-designers, and knowledge guides in a student-driven classroom."
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As key players in local workforce training, community colleges are well placed to lead the adoption of artificial intelligence tools and ensure students are prepared for the business world of tomorrow.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant disruptor. It's already reshaping how we teach, learn and prepare students for tomorrow's workforce. For community colleges, the question isn't if we adopt AI — it's how we lead its adoption effectively and responsibly."
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Educause's 2025 Horizon report reveals a complex landscape — from new VR applications to uncertain social and regulatory factors — shifting the priorities of educators.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Inclusive learning environments are on the rise. Virtual reality is being adopted with growing regularity. New technologies are providing new ways to document student success. Governments are expanding green energy subsidies. But amid it all, there’s uncertainty in how technologies will be regulated in higher education institutions."
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Two studies show that many college students are offloading higher order thinking to AI, asking chatbots to do hard work for them.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
“Learners might become overly reliant on ChatGPT, using it to easily complete specific learning tasks without fully engaging in the learning”
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Artificial intelligence tools should be installed only after considering their security, ethics and problem-solving capabilities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Artificial Intelligence is an incredibly hot technology, which means IT teams are trying to apply AI tools to almost every problem — even those that AI doesn’t solve well. Here are five questions to ask about any project before diving in."
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An English professor from Kennesaw State University argues that intentional use of artificial intelligence, as opposed to passively or reflexively accepting its outputs, can enhance the writing process.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks — like information retrieval or ensuring that verb tenses are consistent — it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing."
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More and more districts, schools, and states are implementing cell phone bans. Here’s advice for doing that effectively.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Cell phone bans in schools have become increasingly common recently, thanks to growing concern among education policy leaders about the devices and the suspected link to negative mental health outcomes in kids."
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AI cheating is something educators everywhere are trying to navigate. How do we get it right? Consider these 20 things about AI and cheating.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Here are 20 things I'd like educators to consider as generative AI tools like ChatGPT become more and more prevalent in schools -- and on students' cell phones -- and in students' work."
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Google’s new chatbot-style AI Mode search experience, previously an experiment, is launching for US users. Publishers and marketers will have to adjust their search strategies once again.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"GOOGLE IS ROLLING out its AI Mode search experience to everyone in the US starting today. The chatbot-style addition to the company’s search engine results page is designed to answer longer queries and uses Google’s AI model to generate full responses based on—and linking back to—indexed websites on the open web."
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"Microsoft envisions a future where any company's artificial intelligence agents can work together with agents from other firms and have better memories of their interactions, its chief technologist said on Sunday ahead of the company's annual software developer conference."
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"[T]he company is focused on helping spur the adoption of standards across the technology industry that will let agents from different makers collaborate."
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While educators value familiar tools like learning management systems and video conferencing, they need more support with artificial intelligence and making sure digital materials are accessible to everyone.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Despite the ability of various ed-tech tools to streamline daily tasks, educators say they still face heavy workloads and need support adapting to new technologies."
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States must craft policies for AI. The more tailored the guidance can be to the actual use of AI the more helpful it will be. Here's our advice.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
State guidance on AI in education should be practical, use case-specific, and focused on supporting districts with effective tool selection, data fluency, student privacy, and evolving assessment practices.
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