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EDTECH@UTRGV
onto Educational Technology News November 8, 11:34 AM
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"As research by people like Donald H Taylor and Egle Vinauskaite shows, more instructional designers are using LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to complete learning design tasks than ever before - and the numbers seems to be increasing at a rate of knots."
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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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When students learn ethical AI skills, they enter the workforce not only as capable professionals but as confident, responsible innovators.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As generative AI tools gain traction in workplaces, universities have a responsibility to prepare students for an AI-driven future."
RaSt's curator insight,
December 10, 12:06 PM
Jak AI wpływa na środowisko akademickie i procesy nauczania
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Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Vahid Kazemi: "We have not achieved 'better than any human at any task, but what we have is better than most humans at most tasks."
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It’s a big launch, but AI video-synthesis competition has heated up over the past 10 months.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"On Monday, OpenAI released Sora Turbo, a new version of its text-to-video generation model, making it available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers through a dedicated website."
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With so many technological teach tools available, finding the right one to engage your students can be a challenge. Here's advice on how to get started.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]ith the vast options of tools and platforms available, we as teachers must use them for specific purposes with the goal of advancing learning outcomes."
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"Research from the University of Kansas Center for Research in Learning identifies key conditions for successful inclusion, including teachers’ philosophical commitment to meeting the needs of all students and collaboration with institutions to assess student needs and monitor progress."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While distance learning offers students unparalleled flexibility, concerns regarding classroom engagement persist among online educators."
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We now live in the midst of an artificial-intelligence boom, but it's hardly the first of its kind. In fact, the field has been subject to a boom-and-bust cycle since at least the early nineteen-fifties. Open Culture, openculture.com
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"'Clarke not only asks the question now on many minds of what “the people who are only capable of low-grade computer-type work' will do when outstripped by AI, but more deeply underlying ones as well: 'What is the purpose of life? What do we want to live for? That is a question which the intelligent computer will force us to pay attention to.'”
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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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Few managers or employees say they feel prepared with AI skills at work, but a new report offers tips to help them navigate the transition.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Managers and employees are struggling to understand how and when to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology into their work and seek training, and a better understanding of organizational expectations and strategy, to help them use AI in their jobs."
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INNOVATIVE LEADER AWARD - Providing an emphasized outlook on professional development in regards to technology and, more specifically, artificial intelligence
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Technology is only as good as the hands that wield it. For educational technology to be used in the right way, proper instruction is key for teachers. Professional development in this area is critical when helping teachers introduce technology to their students."
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"Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Fears that generative AI improvements were hitting a wall came to a head last month, as reports trickled out that OpenAI researchers discovered that the company's upcoming large language model, code-named Orion, demonstrated significantly less improvement — and in some cases no clear advances at all — than previous iterations did over their predecessors."
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The field of “learning analytics” has been working to learn from the data trails students leave in online systems. Generative AI brings new promise
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For a field that has been working to learn from the data trails students leave in online systems, generative AI brings new promises — and new challenges."
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AI is increasingly be used by predators to connect with underage students online. Yasmin London, global online safety expert at Qoria and a former member of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia, shares steps educators can take to protect students.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The threat from AI for students goes well beyond cheating, says Yasmin London, global online safety expert at Qoria and a former member of the New South Wales Police Force in Australia."
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As AI in tutoring and education progresses, it's essential to continue to invest in research and development to close equity gaps.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI-enhanced can help create a more accessible, equitable, and effective education system"
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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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"The question I have is: how well do these generic, all-purpose LLMs handle the nuanced and complex tasks of instructional design? They may be fast, but are AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini actually any good at learning design?"