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A liquid syllabus helps ensure that students begin a course feeling supported by their instructor--before the course even begins.
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Want to better understand how you're using Claude? Try this feature.
"Claude's new 'reflect' tool is designed to help users answer complex questions about their AI use."
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Brad Olsen and Jobin Thomas argue that EdTech is a tool, not a standalone solution, and it needs a proper support system to succeed.
"The success or failure of using technology for education (EdTech) is only partly about the technology itself. What matters more are the conditions underlying EdTech. EdTech is a tool, not a standalone solution, and without a proper support system in place, it will not succeed."
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"Now, many families and educators are having a tech rethink.
Emerging research on the negative impact of student immersion in social media, and concerns about students becoming overly reliant on AI, have contributed to those anxieties.
A nationally representative online survey conducted in February and March by the EdWeek Research Center captured this sentiment.
It found that strong majorities of teachers and administrators in middle and high schools say that that the parents they’re in touch with believe the amount of time students spend with technology is too high."
"Much of the rhetoric being put forward about tech misses the necessary context—namely, how it’s being used in individual schools and classrooms"
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"Rote memorization is a better way to learn things like math facts and vocabulary words than whatever the latest trendy method is at the moment."
“Every issue that exists in public schools is a microcosm of the issues that exist in society in general, and until society fixes itself, the things that are broken about the system won’t get better.”
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Most social learning programs start and end with discussion boards. But real social learning looks nothing like a forum thread.
"Forums mimic social learning in form but miss it in function. They're passive. They're asynchronous in a way that kills momentum. And they place the burden of engagement entirely on the learner, with no structure to guide the conversation toward a useful outcome."
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Learn practical strategies for managing technology change in higher education, reducing change fatigue, and partnering with IT to support teaching success.
"When a learning platform changes or a new grading system goes live, instructors are not just updating software; they are rewriting assignments, redesigning courses, relearning navigation, troubleshooting student questions, and teaching, all at the same time. When faculty push back on this, it isn’t resistance to change. It is exhaustion."
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July 8, 11:13 AM
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Teacher burnout rates have remained high since COVID-19, but experts say artificial intelligence is still a promising solution if done right — and at scale.
"Some reasons teachers are still dabbling with AI tools instead of integrating the technology into their core responsibilities is because AI guidance is inconsistent and lacking in many schools"
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July 7, 12:55 PM
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AI must evolve beyond a simple information dispenser; it must design structured environments that respect human perceptual organization, guiding the learner seamlessly toward a comprehensive and lasting understanding of the whole.
"[I]f Vygotsky’s principles guide us on when to introduce challenge and how to scaffold the learner, Gestalt theory ensures that the final destination of that challenge is a sudden, meaningful cognitive reorganization."
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"Today, we are releasing a fully fleshed out version, 30 skills aligned with each of these roles to help model using AI to support our uniquely human skills,” said Richard Culatta, CEO of the organization."
“Humans have always used tools to accomplish human tasks. AI is no different, but when we teach AI as a way to support us being better at being human, it is far more relevant and far more meaningful than when we just talk about what AI is.”
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This article explores the cognitive science behind why the expert blind spot exists—and what L&D professionals can do about it.
"[A]s expertise becomes automatic, experts stop noticing the intermediate steps beginners still need. What feels obvious to the SME often remains invisible to the learner."
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Even when students use AI entirely within institutional rules, they still most likely bypass the struggle through which learning often occurs
"Artificial intelligence has broken a premise that universities have relied upon for centuries: the assumption that strong performance usually reflects genuine competence."
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What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
"[M]any people don’t use the time they save using AI to do less; they use the time to take on new tasks."
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An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.
"School policies were not the only things that changed from 2009 to 2013; smartphone use, for example, skyrocketed across the same few years. But lots of evidence affirms the notion that in America, at least, children are more stressed out by school than by any other aspect of their lives."
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Students take a photo of their environment, at school, home, or in the community, and ask AI to identify problems within that setting without offering solutions.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for student learning when paired with strong foundations in ethics, integrity, data privacy, bias awareness, and the ability to detect misinformation."
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"Whether you lean into the topic or not, it’s undeniable that generative tools provide speed and scale (even when incorrect). Naturally, we gain efficiency in deliverables and process automation.
The question is: what do we lose when we use AI?"
"Using generative tools leads us to deprioritize one of the most important moments of our work — one that occurs only during the work: the moment of creating meaning."
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State education leaders outline how they've tried to ease anxieties about the fast-evolving technology.
"Schools and districts across the country are trying to figure out how to incorporate AI into teaching and learning, while also dealing with concerns about the technology’s effects on students’ critical thinking skills."
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Streaming solved the problem of access. Now, we must solve the problem of engagement.
"Vinyl records and AI are actually similar technologies. Both seem to provoke a human response to technology: the easier something becomes via technology, the more we begin questioning what was valuable about the underlying use in the first place."
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Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Equal Opportunity Schools CEO AJ Gutierrez on why more than half of students ready for advanced coursework go unidentified and how combining survey data, predictive analytics, and human judgment can change that.
"Education is always going to be human-led, but technology-augmented...You can't just share a dashboard or a widget and expect big change. You're talking about shifting mindsets and shifting human behavior."
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"There’s a moment, working with AI, when you stop knowing exactly what you’re doing. Not because you get lost technically, but because your relationship with the tool changes completely. That’s where something cracks. Not in the technology, but in our role."
"What came next is what I call the crisis of the what. The moment AI stopped executing instructions and started taking part in the decisions that generate them."
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Use of the AI-powered tools to boost students’ writing and studying skills comes with advantages and disadvantages.
"There is a risk that marginalized students, who are not served well, will not get the training or experience with AI to both master learning and compete in the workforce"
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Higher education was designed for a world in which access to knowledge, expertise, feedback, mentorship, and authentic learning experiences were inherently scarce. By making many forms of intelligence increasingly abundant, AI is inherently redefining the existing paradigm.
"AI shifts education from information access to capability development: As explanation, feedback, guidance, and simulation become more abundant, higher education must place greater emphasis on judgment, application, competency, and responsible use of knowledge."
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Two teachers learn what happens when they trust a tool to solve a problem.
"A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Yondr pouches had no statistically significant impact on standardized test scores for high schoolers in English"
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Microlearning apps are shifting from fixed lesson libraries to AI learning engines that generate courses on demand.
"The new-gen apps combine bite-sized lessons, spaced repetition, and strong fact-checking, turning almost any topic into a personalized course with quizzes, images, and more."
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In the age of AI, governance is about ensuring that institutions remain capable of directing what intelligent systems are helping them become
"Higher education continues to treat AI as just another technology to be deployed, managed, and governed. That assumption is increasingly inadequate."
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"Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems."
"[S]ystems thinking and platform based design is very much about understanding user needs at the right moment. The only way to get the real insights is to spend time running effective user research with real people and not just relying on AI approximations."
"As instructors work to build more equitable and humanizing online learning environments for students, one concept gaining traction in higher education is the liquid syllabus."