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Demystifying ChatGPT

Demystifying ChatGPT | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
ChatGPT has sparked many people’s imaginations and fears. But what is it, really? It’s an example of a “large language model”—a computer program trained to recognize patterns in everyday writing and replicate them.
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I've been tinkering with it for a while and I'm beginning to see patterns in its responses. It shouldn't be very difficult to spot AI generated content if you know what to look for.

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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

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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI. Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award. Request your inspection copy today

Request your inspection copy today.

EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight, February 11, 5:29 PM

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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Artificial Intelligence is playing a significant role in both cyber defense and cybercrime. Security professionals are leveraging AI-powered tools to detect threats faster, analyze suspicious activities, and automate incident responses. At the same time, cybercriminals are using AI to create more convincing scams and sophisticated attacks, creating an ongoing battle between attackers and defenders.read more..https://pressearn.it.com/blog/?s=Technology+
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Your AI Is Only As Trustworthy As The Knowledge Base Behind It

Your AI Is Only As Trustworthy As The Knowledge Base Behind It | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI can only be as trustworthy as the knowledge base behind it. Learn how to create the governance layer you need before scaling AI tools.
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"AI doesn't know the difference between your official escalation procedure and the abandoned draft course someone started before they left the company. It just knows both exist, both use the right vocabulary, and so it treats both as valid input."

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Online Learning's Bold AI Test: Who Is Winning in 2026

Online Learning's Bold AI Test: Who Is Winning in 2026 | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Online learning is being reshaped by AI as Duolingo and Coursera pull ahead. Here is how the edtech leaders turn artificial intelligence into growth.
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"Online learning is being reshaped by artificial intelligence, and the platforms that treat AI as a tool rather than a threat are pulling ahead.

 

The winners are building habits and credentials that AI cannot easily copy, while plain answer-on-demand services face real pressure."

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Banning Edtech Is the Wrong Response to the Right Questions

Banning Edtech Is the Wrong Response to the Right Questions | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The question was never whether technology belongs in schools. It’s which technology, for whom, and under what conditions.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A blanket tech ban is the easy move, but it’s also a lazy one — one that deepens inequities between families with the resources to use technology well, and those who don’t. It also ignores the basic reality that not all tools serve the same purpose."

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AI self-improvement fears prompt ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic, OpenAI

AI self-improvement fears prompt ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic, OpenAI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI researchers are warning that faster AI self-improvement could eventually make advanced systems harder for humans to control.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Anthropic and OpenAI researchers raised fresh concerns about recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI helps improve the development of models...Researchers fear humans could eventually lose control of increasingly capable systems."

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The compliance trap waiting on the other side of Title II

The compliance trap waiting on the other side of Title II | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A Web Content Accessibility Guidelines audit tells you if a tool passes a test--it won't tell you if students can actually use it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"We draw a line between technical accessibility and what we call practical accessibility. A site can meet every criterion in WCAG 2.1 AA and still be genuinely hard to use if the people building it never designed alongside the people who’d rely on it."

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Technology is here to stay—now let’s get it right

Technology is here to stay—now let’s get it right | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"A lively public debate over classroom screen time has unfolded in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, and that’s a good thing. Parents, teachers and school leaders all share the same goal: helping children learn and thrive. The question isn’t whether technology belongs in schools anymore. It does. The real question is how much is too much."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Chromebooks, tablets and online learning platforms have become part of modern education, and today’s students need digital literacy to succeed in college and the workforce. Pretending otherwise ignores reality."

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How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard

How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[E]arly research is only beginning to scratch the surface of how this technology will truly affect learning and cognition in the long run."

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Recurrent Depth: The Machines Are Hiding Their Reasoning. Schools Are Hiding From Teaching AI Governance

Recurrent Depth: The Machines Are Hiding Their Reasoning. Schools Are Hiding From Teaching AI Governance | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Schools are teaching students how to use AI when they need to learn how to govern, investigate, contain, and morally evaluate it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The educational challenge is no longer merely teaching students how to use AI. It is developing the judgment, technical understanding, ethical reasoning, adversarial thinking, and democratic capacity required to govern systems that may become both more powerful and more morally complicated than the institutions deploying them."

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What Shakespeare got right about AI

"Every warning we need about AI was written four hundred years ago. What witches, a forged letter, and a haunted prince can teach you about talking to a machine."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Shakespeare...wrote about AI constantly, but he just called it magic."

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AACTE releases national framework on AI in educator preparation

AACTE releases national framework on AI in educator preparation | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The widespread adoption of AI is changing educator preparation what educators need to know and what they need to be able to do.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“AACTE’s Framework reflects our commitment to ensuring that technology serves, not supplants, the expertise, ethics, and professional judgment of educators.”

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Persistent lessons in human-centered automation: What a 1980s photocopier study reveals about the Agentic UX era

"During my time as a User Researcher at Bossa Nova Robotics, I conducted multiple studies in grocery store aisles watching our inventory-assessing robot do its job. My objective was to identify moments when the robot had to pause because of obstructions or human interference. The goal was to find ways for the robot to better navigate the space and indicate what it was doing to nearby humans and, in doing so, optimize its efficiency."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[N]o matter how much machine intelligence is baked into a system, if it doesn’t account for the unpredictability of human behavior it will still be dumb in human intelligence."

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From Access to Trust: How Online Learning Has Changed Since 2000

From Access to Trust: How Online Learning Has Changed Since 2000 | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Tools and Trends From Access to Trust: How Online Learning Has Changed Since 2000 August 31, 2026 Tools and Trends Online learning began with one basic promise: Make education available to people who could not come to a campus. Since 2000, online learning has had to do much more than provide access.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Institutions learned that putting a course online was not the same as designing a good online course. Teaching and instructional design, feedback mattered, student support and services and accessibility mattered. So, too, did appropriate uses of technology and faculty development."

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Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond?

Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.
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“AI can play a role in democratizing access to information about the process itself, as well as being a starting point for thinking about what types of accommodations parents may want to ask about,”

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A Better Measure Than Screen Time

A Better Measure Than Screen Time | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The question shouldn't be how much screen time should students have, but what they are doing, what are they learning, and is technology helping?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"That's the conversation schools should be having about technology more broadly. Don't start with the tool or the number of minutes. Start with the learning and decide what tools are best to achieve the desired outcomes."

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Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

"User Experience did not begin with Don Norman’s job title at Apple. The work is older than the name, and most of it is older than anyone teaching it.

 

You can earn a degree in this field and never hear about John Karlin shaping telephones at Bell Labs in the 1940s, the principles and laws we follow in UX Guidelines, or about the decade the web spent learning to organize itself. School hands you tools, methods and critique; it rarely hands you the history that explains why the tools exist.

 

That gap matters, because the field is not a straight march of progress."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Strip away the eras and the same shape repeats: each one handed the field a lesson worth keeping and a habit worth dropping, and the field reliably kept the habit."

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California enacts laws restricting chatbots, protecting kids online

California enacts laws restricting chatbots, protecting kids online | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of bills intended to protect children by regulating internet use, including limiting chatbot sessions.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"California teens will be barred from “addictive” social media products and limited in their interactions with chatbots under two of the 13 bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom today to protect kids online."

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Two Students, Two Questions They Wouldn’t Let Go

Two Students, Two Questions They Wouldn’t Let Go | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Students asking why learning matters in the age of AI forces two teachers to respond.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]wo educators trace what happened after a student said something that could have been dismissed as attitude but turned out to be something else entirely."

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Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI

Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Explore why productive friction matters in education and how universities can protect critical thinking, deep reading, and deep learning in the age of AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[F]riction may be the primary mechanism by which learning transforms the human mind. At present, AI is helping to remove this cognitive struggle from the thinking process, treating it as the exhaust of learning."

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How to Measure eLearning Success: 4 Metrics That Matter

How to Measure eLearning Success: 4 Metrics That Matter | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Completion rates alone mean little. The four metric families that show whether training works — plus a 60-second self-check for your program.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"'Ninety-five percent completion.' It sounds like success. It might mean nothing. Completion tells you people reached the last screen. It doesn't tell you whether they learned anything, liked it, or do their job differently now."

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Did AGI Arrive Yesterday? GPT-6 Astra and why education cannot wait for everyone to agree on the definition

Did AGI Arrive Yesterday? GPT-6 Astra and why education cannot wait for everyone to agree on the definition | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"When machines soon match every human expert, what’s left for students to do? The answer: instructional redesign and students developing what I call Standing — a maker’s stake in their communities."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The real question is no longer simply, 'Is this AGI?' The better question is: What kind of intelligence has arrived, what can it reliably do, and which of our institutions are prepared for it?"

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ChatGPT boosts scores as critical-thinking training broadens ideas

ChatGPT boosts scores as critical-thinking training broadens ideas | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"A randomized trial involving 1,053 Bocconi University students found ChatGPT improved conventional performance scores while critical-thinking training increased idea diversity."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A new study shows giving university students access to ChatGPT helped them produce higher-scoring, more expert-like work, but a separate critical-thinking intervention changed something the traditional grading rubric largely missed: the range and distinctiveness of their ideas."

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Before You Click Submit: Why AI Users Need To Pause

Before You Click Submit: Why AI Users Need To Pause | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
This article explores the value of taking human ownership of AI-assisted work to consider whether it is truly ready to use.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI produces outputs; humans take responsibility for the work they choose to use."

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Beyond ChatGPT: 5 Ways Teachers Can Use RAG to Help Students Find Better Information

Beyond ChatGPT: 5 Ways Teachers Can Use RAG to Help Students Find Better Information | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A retrieval-augmented generation tool (RAG) helps students move from asking AI for answers to asking it to help them find, examine, and explain evidence
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Large language models (LLMs) can produce incorrect information, misrepresent sources, and even invent convincing citations to publications that do not exist, which is why many educators remain understandably cautious about students using AI for research.

The better response is not to tell students to avoid AI altogether but to teach them how to use AI tools that keep evidence at the center of the research process."

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September 9, 12:59 PM
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Most AI problems are really human problems

"The cause sits upstream: unread intent, missing oversight, thin context, loose language, unset expectations, no evals, fuzzy outcomes, and the wrong tool for the job. Here’s the AI checklist."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Most AI failures are organizational, not technical—Ironically a failure of human in the loop making unrealistic decisions."

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Report – MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

"This report is a call to action.

 

Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate its challenges and opportunities.

 

In January 2026, Chancellor Melissa Nobles, Provost Anantha Chandrakasan, and Faculty Chair Roger Levy charged us1 specifically to:

  • Assess current AI use at MIT.
  • Identify innovations in teaching and student assessment.
  • Propose an AI use policy."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Most classes taught at MIT will require careful review and, in many cases, substantial adaptation to survive an encounter with AI without serious disruption. AI will undermine the pedagogical assumptions that guided the choice of content, the methods of instruction, and the ways of assessing student performance."

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