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Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint."
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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
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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.
harrietwatkins's curator insight,
August 24, 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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Digital Promise, a nonprofit focused on equitable education, released the framework in August.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The K–12 framework 'identifies the actions that schools and districts must take across five interdependent domains to graduate students prepared for postsecondary learning opportunities and a workforce that increasingly requires digital skills'”
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"In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"E-portfolios are digital collections of student work that showcase achievements and learning progress and have the power to transform the educational experience for students."
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AI and Machine Learning enhance eLearning with personalization, adaptive courses, automation, and data-driven insights.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For course creators and businesses, the integration of AI and ML can redefine how learners interact with content and improve the overall success of eLearning platforms."
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A machine learning librarian scraped public posts and created a searchable AI training dataset, without consent of users.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The data was posted to an AI company, then later removed after an outcry."
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"The debate around AI often centers on job displacement, but the reality is that technology has historically transformed jobsrather than eliminate them."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While AI likely won’t replace your job, learning how to leverage it can help elevate your career and offer a broader array of opportunities."
Marco Bertolini's curator insight,
December 3, 9:38 AM
Forbes analyses the job market transformation by AI. Interesting view..
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The U.S. Department of Education has released new resources for schools on AI that include recommendations on some thorny issues.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he department resources detail both potential pitfalls that could stem from AI and the opportunities that it has for K-12 education."
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Wharton’s Stefano Puntoni talks about a new report that reveals a seismic shift in firms’ attitudes and uses of AI in just a short time.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Generative artificial intelligence is transitioning from a curious toy to an indispensable tool that more companies are integrating into daily operations, according to a new report by Wharton experts and marketing consultancy GBK Collective."
pzx124428@student.poznan.merito.pl's curator insight,
December 8, 7:55 PM
Jak firmy wdrażają dziś sztuczną inteligencję: kluczowe spostrzeżenia z nowego raportu. Materiał ten ujawnia rzeczywiste przykłady wykorzystania sztucznej inteligencji w biznesie, w tym automatyzację procesów, personalizację usług klienta, prognozowanie danych i poprawę wydajności operacyjnej. Dowiedz się, które branże przodują, jak firmy mierzą sukces swoich inicjatyw i jakie wyzwania stawiają przed transformacją cyfrową.
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Students offered insight into how to use active learning, with digital resources and edtech tools, to boost their engagement.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A majority of teachers report engaging students in active learning with classroom technology. Thirty percent of K-5 teachers, 29 percent of 6-8 teachers, and 29 percent of 9-12 teachers reported daily or near-daily active learning experiences with classroom technology. Twenty-five percent of K-5 teachers report weekly use, along with 30 percent of 6-8 teachers and 31 percent of 9-12 teachers. Students reported more instances of passive technology use, however."
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AI guardrails help ensure that an organization’s AI tools, and their application in the business, reflect the organization’s standards, policies, and values.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As companies’ adoption of gen AI increases rapidly, guardrails are crucial to the responsible use of AI."
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A three-step, hands-on project to deepen your AI skills by building a bot
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Think of a custom GPT as your AI design partner - one that remembers your preferences, follows your rules, and never forgets best practices. Unlike regular ChatGPT conversations that start fresh each time, a custom GPT maintains consistent behaviour and can be trained with specific knowledge."
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As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism -- looking at
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he findings suggest publishers remain at the mercy of the generative AI tool’s tendency to invent or otherwise misrepresent information, regardless of whether or not they’re allowing OpenAI to crawl their content."
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AI has significant untapped potential within higher education, particularly as institutions fail to adopt the technology.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As universities look for ways to increase enrollment and student retention as they boost revenue growth, many higher-education administrators believe AI is the key."
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"The new year may bring a host of virtual assistants and administrative staff to higher education. They will begin as assistants to humans, then over time they will evolve into autonomous AI staff members."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Given these developments, where is your university along the path to prepare for implementing AGI-class agents to take on key administrative tasks? Do you expect the efficiencies of generative AI to advance operating cost savings? Are you prepared for agentic AI to assist with your work?"
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"In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The purpose of the study was to examine human-level creative potential, not necessarily people who may have established creative credentials."
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"Brains suggest an alternate way to build AI—one that will replace deep learning as the central technology for creating artificial intelligence."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Today’s AI is based on a technology called deep learning. Altman and other deep learning advocates believe that to create super-intelligent machines, all we have to do is scale this technology. If we feed ever-increasing amounts of data into these systems, using larger and larger computers, there will be no limit to what AI can do. This belief has led to a race to build hundreds of massive server farms around the world to run deep learning AI systems."
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"Automation and coding are two ways AI can help, but be sure the results are accurate and comply with regulations."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In regulated industries, a significant portion of daily tasks are repetitive and administratively intensive, making them ripe for automation. By taking on these routine functions, AI can increase operational efficiency, reduce human error, and lower costs."
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This article highlights three ways higher education leaders can implement IT innovation in 2025 for a significant and far-reaching impact on their cam
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As institutional leaders reflect on the achievements of 2024 and look forward to goals and aspirations for 2025, consider the following focus areas to strengthen the connection between digital innovation, educational impact, and trust in higher education."
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"AI is incredibly powerful, but there’s a big disconnect between what we expect and what it’s actually capable of."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Today’s AI models are programmed with vast amounts of data to simulate intelligence, but they falter when variables change. It’s like hiring someone who has every answer memorized but no clue what those answers mean."
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U.S. scores were on par with the international average for computer and information literacy but below average for computational thinking.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"U.S. 8th graders’ digital literacy skills declined between 2018 and 2023 on the International Computer and Information Literacy Study, a global assessment of students’ preparedness for the digital world."
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Instead of resisting the inevitable, educators can help students use AI as a tool for learning, innovation, and ethical problem-solving.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Concerns about academic dishonesty, loss of critical thinking skills, and inappropriate content creation have sparked discussions about banning AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and others. However, with thoughtful integration and a shift in perspective, AI can be a powerful ally in the classroom rather than an adversary."
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As more schools consider student phone bans, are phone pouches a viable solution?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Evidence suggests that removing distractions from phones during the school day leads to improved performance."
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"Google’s newest AI model, Gemini-Exp-1114, has taken the top spot on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, outperforming OpenAI’s GPT-4o with impressive abilities in mathematics, creative writing, and visual understanding."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This video explores Google’s latest AI breakthrough, Gemini-Exp-1114, delving into its record-breaking achievements, potential to reshape AI benchmarks, and the ethical debates surrounding its real-world implications."
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OpenAI is funding academic research at Duke into algorithms that can predict humans' moral judgements.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he goal of the OpenAI-funded work is to train algorithms to 'predict human moral judgements' in scenarios involving conflicts 'among morally relevant features in medicine, law, and business.'”
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"As interest in skills-based hiring increases, more and more companies and states are eliminating degree requirements. In response, some higher education institutions are creating microcredential programs that positively impact student success, but you don’t have to create an entirely new program to show your institution’s value."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Just as microcredentials can represent specific job skills, they can also demonstrate durable skills learners gain at any learning institution, setting them apart from other applicants."
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Andrew Shean of Penn Foster shares strategies for enhancing learner engagement and outcomes in online education on DisruptED.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"With millions of students relying on virtual platforms, educators and ed-tech innovators face the critical task of creating dynamic, relevant, and impactful learning experiences."
Jesús Sosa Delgado's curator insight,
December 4, 5:50 PM
A medida que las personas dependen de las plataformas virtuales, es crucial crear experiencias que vayan más allá de la transmisión de la información, buscando una conexión entre los contenidos, los objetivos y el mundo real.
Tenemos que conseguir que los estudiantes se impliquen en su aprendizaje, sentirse motivados, desafiados y apoyados. Esto requiere de estrategias que integren prácticas, resolución de problemas del mundo real, aprendizaje colaborativo y herramientas interactivas que fomenten el pensamiento crítico. Si un estudiante ve la aplicación del conocimiento aprendido, su compromiso aumenta significativamente. Un aspecto importante es la equidad en el acceso a la educación en línea. Debe de ser inclusiva, ofreciendo oportunidades a todos los estudiantes. La educación en línea es una herramienta poderosa para democratizar el aprendizaje. Con dicha educación digital, se logra experiencias autenticas que ayudan los alumnos alcanzar sus metas. Los docentes, tenemos que usar plataformas digitales y contenidos centrados en ellos para optimizar la experiencia del estudiante. |
"AI summarizing tools don’t always provide accurate information, due to a phenomenon of large language models known as “hallucinations,” when chatbots guess at facts but present them to users as sure things."