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EDTECH@UTRGV
onto Educational Technology News July 4, 2022 12:24 PM
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"An outstanding UX case study is a powerful tool in the hands of a UX designer. This is because it will represent you and your work to potential clients. And if you are able to create an outstanding UX design case study, it will help you land the job that you want and need.
But how can you create a clear and outstanding UX case study that will help you build the perfect portfolio? Well, Don’t worry, this blog is for you!"
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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.
Katlego Mofokeng's curator insight,
May 19, 3:46 PM
Using technology in education proves affective in helping students/ learners accelerate their learning progress.
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"GPT-5.2 is fundamentally about making small tweaks and improvements to the already fairly new GPT-5.1 model. Today’s release improves OpenAI’s performance on a variety of industry benchmarks. GPT-5.2 is faster and more efficient than its predecessor, and it does a better job solving scientific and technical problems."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[I]t’s better at writing code and doing math, and performs better on so-called agentic tasks, where the model operates for a long time without human input."
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"As a medical school professor who teaches academic writing, I see the tension firsthand. Students are unsure what is allowed. Faculty are unsure what is ethical. And institutions are scrambling to keep up. The arrival of generative AI has triggered a wave of confusion and concern across higher education."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[A]s panic fades, a more sophisticated reality is setting in. Far from a threat, AI is a challenge that must be studied, tamed and strategically applied if scholars want to keep pace with the new frontier of AI literacy."
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Moving beyond the one-student, one-AI model to build tools that bring learners together
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The industry is at a crossroads. We can continue down the path of isolated efficiency, creating ever-more-compelling digital companions that risk exacerbating student isolation. Or, we can choose a different path: one where AI is designed not as a private oracle for the individual, but as a catalyst for collaboration within a group."
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"Yesterday, I watched a high school student present his “AI Project.” His goal was straightforward: teach an AI player to choose among six different dice to improve its odds of climbing ladders instead of sliding down chutes in Chutes & Ladders. He hit a wall. The AI wasn’t working. So he left the classroom—metaphorically—and took a free online course on his own initiative in reinforcement learning. In the course, he learned just enough to solve his problem. Then he came back and got it working. His presentation included an explanation of RL and how he did it."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Traditional teaching often centers the teacher as the source of knowledge. This teacher understood their role differently: architect of learning environments, curator of opportunities, coach for student-directed exploration."
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Learn about AI-enhanced learning design and how it balances efficiency with creativity for a better educational experience.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Effective Instructional Design depends on humans guiding and refining AI, not the other way around."
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uxdesign
"We’ve all seen it. You ask for help, and the AI provides a dense, multi-part response, that sounds like high-quality until you look closer. The challenge for learning specifically, is that managing the learner’s cognitive load is critical, and presenting information this way can be overwhelming."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Ask any instructor what helps students learn, and it’s unlikely any of them will answer 'a really big wall of text'”.
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The Center for Reimagining Education gives students a chance to survive and thrive in the age of AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In every decade, there are calls to fix the supposed problems pervading schools and classrooms, but the remedies are typically reworked or enhanced versions of the very practices that created the reported problems in the first place."
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Google's Mixboard now includes Nano Banana Pro to create presentations from your photos and documents - and it's free. Try it and see what you think.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Mixboard simplifies the creation of presentations. The service is compatible with any Chromium-based browser. Currently, Mixboard is in public beta, so it's free to use."
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Teachers and school administrators are turning toward AI tools to help bridge the language gap with English learners — but experts caution their use.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[L]inguistics experts and educators who are experimenting with adopting the technology itself acknowledge the pitfalls that often go hand-in-hand with AI adoption, including continued concerns about data privacy, bias, and an over-reliance."
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"Higher education is, by nature, very slow to change. So it is with embracing artificial intelligence. Yet, when they finally come, the changes will come in an avalanche."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The question for every professor isn’t “Will AI impact my career?” Rather, “Will I have the required skills before the system is forced to change around me in 2027–28?” What are you doing to prepare your department and yourself for the tipping point?"
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Discover real classroom lessons from students using AI inappropriately—and learn practical strategies to create clear AI policies, support integrity, and guide ethical AI use.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"We should anticipate having to deal with our students using AI in ways that may surprise us. Accordingly, our policies and teaching practices should be designed to help them (and us!) navigate the situations in which our students use AI in unauthorized and inappropriate ways."
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The calculator didn’t take away the need for math teachers. Computers didn’t eliminate graphic designers. And AI won’t erase instructional designers. Instead, these tools made room for more strategy, more creativity, and more value.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"One of the risks of using AI for writing is losing your tone. AI tends to write in polished, but sometimes generic, language. It might sound smart, but not human. That’s why your editing matters."
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From
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The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and asking for journals, books, and records that don’t exist"
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From
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"Viewing agents through a human analogy can make their development and management easier to grasp. In our framework, an agent’s lifecycle mirrors that of an employee:ideate, build and govern. The same requirements we rely on to manage human teams provide a useful blueprint for managing agents."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What do you call your agent? Like any member of a team, it needs a name so you can refer to both the agent and its growing set of skills."
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From
medium
"Grades show where students are, but feedback shows where they can go. After a test, you often see the same scene: papers handed back, numbers circled at the top, and quiet reactions that reveal far more than the grade itself. A grade on its own is incomplete. It gives information, but it doesn’t give direction."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A grade is a snapshot. Feedback is momentum. Without feedback, students often create their own story about what the grade means, and it is usually the harshest version possible."
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"The college students gazed intently at the screen, trying to discern whether the photo was real or created by artificial intelligence.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The classes’ content pulls from many disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, communication arts and psychology. Each takes a slightly different approach to tackle misinformation — or false information — and disinformation, which is incorrect information intended to mislead people."
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Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Nearly all U.S. teens (97%) say they use the internet daily, including four-in-ten who say they are almost constantly online... About three-in-ten teens say they use AI chatbots every day, including 16% who do so several times a day or almost constantly."
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"Whether they are taken as part of a degree or as a post-degree specialisation, micro-credentials are an important step towards greater individualisation and diversification of learning paths."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"One approach to micro-credentials is to see them as part of a longstanding development towards greater individualisation of study programmes and learning paths."
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From
uxdesign
"The future of design will be the negotiation between multiple moral worlds."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[D]esigners rarely operate from a neutral position. Even when they insist they’re “designing for the user,” their own assumptions, values, and biases inevitably slip into the work — usually without them noticing."
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The AI wave requires us to rethink what it means to teach and to learn. Teachers need a clear foundation to build on.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This is the crossroads where we now stand. The tools will continue to evolve. But so must our collective capacity to ensure that learning — in all its messy, beautiful, and deeply human complexity — remains at the center of our work."
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December 10, 1:53 PM
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Too many PD sessions remain generic, compliance-driven, or disconnected from day-to-day teaching realities--but AI can help.
"From customizing agendas and differentiating materials to scaling coaching and mapping long-term growth, AI offers concrete ways to make PD more responsive and effective"
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December 10, 1:46 PM
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"The retrospective felt like a breakthrough. The team diagnosed exactly where their reasoning broke down, mapped the root causes, and committed to doing better. Three months later, they repeated the same mistakes.
The diagnosis was accurate. What was missing was a system to turn awareness into development. Diagnosis alone doesn’t create change."
"Most improvement efforts fail not from lack of insight, but from lack of judgment infrastructure."
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December 10, 1:38 PM
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A new report from Credential Engine found that out of the 1.8 million credentials offered across the country, digital badges and certificates dominate. The number of unique credentials available in the U.S. has hit a whopping 1.8 million, with digital badges making up more than a million of those offerings, according to the latest report from Credential Engine.
Regarding micro credentials, higher ed institutions will "need to recognize where the marketplace is, where the zeitgeist is in the country and what employers need and what students are calling out for.”
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December 9, 11:07 AM
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"While companies pour money into lengthy courses that demand full attention and perfect conditions, employees are multitasking, moving, and simply too busy for bloated content. The solution isn’t more “hyper-engaging videos” or “interactive workflow simulations”; it’s audio-first podcast-style eLearning that fits into real life."
"Podcast-style training [delivers] focused, practical lessons that people can consume while walking, commuting, or working."
