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The latest news related to the meaningful and effective implementation of educational technology and e-learning in K-12, higher education, corporate and government sectors.
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
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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.
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.
Colleges that modernize infrastructure, adopt responsible AI, and build inclusive hybrid experiences can build relevance with Gen Alpha.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In just a few years, the first students from Generation Alpha will begin their college search. Born after 2010, they are entering higher education as true digital natives whose earliest memories include touchscreens, streaming content, and artificial intelligence. Their arrival will test every assumption colleges hold about technology, teaching, and engagement."
Discover how educators can use AI tools like NotebookLM and Suno to hear student evaluations differently—transforming feedback into reflective, motivating, and actionable insights for course improvement.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"I had been playing with Google’s recently released NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com) and I wondered what raw survey data might sound like in the “podcast” feature. I started with just my self-created mid-course evaluations and it was really interesting to hear two “people” talk about my class."
Rather than railing against AI, educators could see this moment as an overdue correction and redesign assessment around what matters: the process by which humans think, revise and learn
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has exposed something higher education has obscured for decades: our obsession with the final product. A polished essay - our supposed gold standard - can now be generated in seconds by a system that has never read the assigned texts, wrestled with uncertainty or learned anything at all."
"As AI mirrors how we design and learn, our role evolves from creating interfaces to defining the signals that shape intelligent experiences."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When we design digital experiences, countless events occur on the front end and back end. Some happen autonomously, some because of user actions. Each is a potential signal, but we need a structured way to interpret them."
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]e need to be asking critical questions about what AI is doing to education, labor, and democracy"
"In November, 2022—just 1 day before OpenAI launched ChatGPT publicly—teacher Winston Roberts's daughter was born. Roberts said to his wife something like, "This tool is going to change everything!" and his wife said, "That's great! Now hold the baby."
The connection between the two was not lost on Roberts: (a) a groundbreaking AI tool and (b) youth who will need to navigate AI to thrive."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If AI can convincingly complete an assignment, then the assignment (not the student using AI) is a problem."
Durable skills are critical for success in college and beyond--and laying a strong foundation for these skills in K-12 learning is essential.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI increasingly automates technical tasks across industries, students’ long-term career success will rely less on technical skills alone and more on durable skills or professional skills, often referred to as soft skills."
"The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into higher education has ignited a fervent debate across campuses worldwide. Far from being a fleeting trend, AI presents a fundamental paradigm shift, challenging traditional pedagogical approaches, redefining academic integrity, and promising to reshape the very essence of a college degree."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI is poised to either revolutionize higher education for the better or fundamentally undermine its foundational principles, making the decisions made today crucial for generations to come."
Explore the top 10 education trends that will change education forever. Read about how AI classrooms, lifelong learning, and other trends are changing education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The future of education is no longer just classrooms and textbooks—it is innovation, personal learning, and learning that prepares learners for an ever-increasingly rapid pace of change."
"This year’s senior class is the first to have spent nearly its entire college career in the age of generative AI, a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, like text and images. As the technology improves, it's harder to distinguish from human work, and it’s shaking academia to its core."
"Imagine spending thousands of dollars on an edtech product for your school or district that promises to transform student learning, only to watch students struggle to engage with it. It’s a scenario we’ve heard about repeatedly from educators. While teachers and education leaders are the ones making the procurement decisions, the end users — students themselves — are often left out of the conversation."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Above all else, students wanted products that are easy to use, with a clean design and smooth functionality."
Higher education’s path forward lies in bringing its mission to life through digital experiences that complement tradition.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When colleges approach transformation through this human-centric lens, technology becomes more than infrastructure and bridges the institution’s purpose to the people it serves."
Conversations with Kevin Hogan: FETC 2026 keynote speaker Alana Winnick argues schools must explain the "why" behind cell phone bans and teach students self-regulation for the real world.
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In this podcast Winnick talks about the importance of explaining the why behind phone bans.
"Agentic AI—the latest wave of artificial intelligence—doesn’t just generate text or code. It takes action. Whereas early large language models (LLMs) could answer questions or summarize information, agentic systems can now perform complex tasks independently, autonomously trigger workflows, and collaborate with other agents."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
“Maybe within 12 or 24 months we’re actually going to stop talking about AI, and not because it won’t exist anymore,... It’ll just be a capability that we expect machines to do.”
New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"An AI-powered tutor, paired with a human helper and individual-level data on a student’s proficiency, can outperform a human alone, with near-flawless results, a new study suggests."
Academia is unprepared for the rise in chatbot use among students — but with the right AI tools, personalized learning could soon become a reality.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI continues to outperform humans in basic tasks such as reading comprehension and computer programming2, concerns have been mounting about its impact on learning and academic integrity. For example, the value of conventional essays and other written assessments is increasingly in doubt, given that AI can now produce writing that often surpasses the quality of most student work."
The structure of college classes will have to change in an AI world. That's according to Roy Magnuson, the director of the newly created Adaptive Edge Institute at Illinois State University. The institute studies new technologies and how they influence teaching. Right now, that's Generative AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[U]niversities are taking a variety of approaches to AI, everything from thou shalt not ever ever … to full steam ahead, with virtual professors."
AI computers come equipped with Neural Processing Units (NPUs) that make capable of operating AI models locally, which is key for privacy in the school setting.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The presence of an NPU gives AI PCs the ability to run AI models locally without connecting to the internet or cloud and ups the overall performance of a computer"
"Greg sits in the library, hunched over his computer. He racks his brain while pondering his thesis statement for his final paper of the semester. This is a subject he’s been researching for months for this class. Greg knows this subject like the back of his hand, but he just can’t get the wording right, and it’s driving him crazy. So he asks ChatGPT. ChatGPT proceeds to spit out a perfectly worded paragraph for his thesis, not a single error in sight. He copies and pastes it without a second thought."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Although AI seems to have largely negative implications for College, there is still hope for higher education in the hands of the current and growing generations."
"Digital wellness is a strange concept when you think about it. Our phones track how much we use them, present this data as evidence of failure, and then leave us alone with our guilt never really addressing why we reached for them in the first place or offering constructive suggestions for improvement."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Digital wellness, to truly live up to its name, should feel more like an environment that supports the user, rather than just a dashboard that informs."
A cohort of young, environmentally conscious people labelled ‘AI vegans’ is leading the charge against ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Bella is one of a growing number of ‘AI vegans’, a new name for those choosing to abstain from all generative AI, systems that are trained on vast data sets to create text, images, music and more."
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