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EDTECH@UTRGV
onto Educational Technology News December 20, 2024 9:24 AM
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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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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
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
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, 2024 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.
Katlego Mofokeng's curator insight,
May 19, 3:46 PM
Using technology in education proves affective in helping students/ learners accelerate their learning progress.
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"Voice technologies are no longer just about recognizing what we say; they are beginning to understand how we say it. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it can detect subtle emotional signals in our speech, promising more human-like interactions with machines. Emotional AI is reshaping how voice data is used across industries."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Paralinguistic voice analysis focuses on non-verbal elements of speech like tone, pitch, volume, pauses and rhythm that convey emotion, intention or attitude. While traditional voice recognition focused on transcribing spoken words, emotional AI adds a new layer: interpreting how those words are delivered. Today’s AI systems use deep learning to identify these paralinguistic features in real time."
Richard Platt's curator insight,
Today, 10:31 AM
"Voice technologies are no longer just about recognizing what we say; they are beginning to understand how we say it. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it can detect subtle emotional signals in our speech, promising more human-like interactions with machines. Emotional AI is reshaping how voice data is used across industries."
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uxdesign
"AI promises amplified intelligence, but are we repeating old habits that bankrupt our thinking?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI-powered innovation faces the same old problem: speed over depth."
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"It’s been a little over a year since ChatGPT brought generative AI into the mainstream. In that time, we’ve ridden a wave of excitement about the current utility and future impact of large language models (LLMs). These tools already have hundreds of millions of weekly users, analysts are projecting a multi-trillion dollar contribution to the economy, and there’s now a growing array of credible competitors to OpenAI."
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The AI world of tomorrow isn’t just knocking--it’s already in our higher education classrooms, learning management systems, and labs.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The institutions best positioned to thrive will be those that treat AI not as an add-on but as a framework. Faculty development programs should include AI pedagogical design."
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Enhance engagement, personalize instruction, and streamline tasks with AI tools that support smarter, more efficient classroom learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"During an ISTELive 25 session, Eric Curts, a technology integration specialist with the Stark Portage Area Computer Consortium, offered an overview of can’t-miss AI resources."
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Experts say teachers should help build, not just use, AI tools, and that PD must go beyond tech skills to include trust and leadership.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the K-12 landscape, educators must be at the center of that evolution, say leaders behind AI-powered educational tools."
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As the urgency to capture game-changing AI value intensifies, now is the time to be bold, fast and responsible in realizing its full potential. There are many paths to take to unlock the power of AI to shape your future. Your choices and priorities now will influence your journey.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]e believe AI will bolster—not replace—humans, significantly enhancing their capabilities and everyday work experiences. While AI can process and analyze data at an unprecedented scale, it is human insight, creativity, discernment and decision-making that will unlock its true value."
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Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Google is charging ahead with AI tools, saying it thinks that 'responsible AI' can help drive 'more engaging and personalized learning experiences,' when used in conjunction with human-led teaching."
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Use for work, to learn something new, or for entertainment has risen since March 2023. Adults under 30 are especially likely to use the chatbot in these ways.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"58% of adults under 30 say they have used it, up from 43% in 2024 and 33% in 2023. While use is rising in older age groups as well, they remain less likely to have used ChatGPT"
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In this contributed Op-Ed, Emelia Probasco argues that to understand the strengths and weaknesses of AI, kids need to get their hands on AI in low-stakes settings.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"It is up to each of us to learn about AI’s strengths and weaknesses. And there may be no better way to learn than by trying them out in repercussion-free ways. Reading and knowing about hallucinations is not the same as experiencing them."
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If your institution hasn't started developing an AI strategy, you are likely putting yourself and your stakeholders at risk, particularly when it comes to ethical use, responsible pedagogical and data practices, and innovative exploration.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI is advancing daily, and by establishing a strategic foundation now, your institution can stay agile and aligned with its mission, vision, and goals to serve learners as the education sector continues to evolve its usage of AI globally."
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Digital innovation is sparking an evolution from learning as a content delivery solution to a broader enabler of connection and insight.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Five years after the pandemic drove a move toward online learning and three years into the transformative, widespread use of generative AI tools, the higher education teaching and learning ecosystem continues to adjust and evolve."
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"As AI technology and no-code automation tools continue to evolve, manual testing seems to be losing its edge. This perception may or may not align with reality, as multiple factors are impacting manual testing, including budget cuts driven by the tech sector slump. But as QA professionals, we must acknowledge the realities outlined in the latest World Quality Report, which highlights the forces shaping the future of manual testing."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Humans are crucial in validating AI-generated outputs. This is why the authors advocate for a hybrid approach that combines manual expertise with automation, and where SMEs review and refine AI-generated test cases."
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uxdesign
"The future of AI UX will be shaped by those who understand these principles are not suggestions — they are laws. Natural laws of the intelligence era, as fundamental as gravity, as powerful as evolution, as inevitable as progress itself."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
As AI reshapes user experience, the collapse of old design rules calls for a new set of guiding principles to bring clarity and direction to a rapidly evolving and often chaotic landscape.
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How does ChatGPT affect memory, brain activity, and critical thinking? A neuroscientist breaks down the science behind the MIT study.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Based on these findings, the researchers argued that over-reliance on AI tools could lead to “cognitive debt”—a kind of mental shortfall where people don’t engage deeply enough to learn or remember."
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Hear from UTRGV alumnus Reynaldo Garcia III as he shares how earning his Master of Education in Educational Technology strengthened his skills, boosted hi
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
The Online M.Ed. in Educational Technology is a 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. Learn more here: http://utrgv.edu/edtech
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The key to responsible use of AI tools lies in choosing tools designed to aid understanding, not undermine it by encouraging cheating.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Here are 5 high-caliber AI tools that can help K-12 students learn more effectively, without crossing the line into cheating or unfair shortcuts."
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"How the tools designed to augment human intelligence are accidentally replacing it."
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There’s a growing concern that the smart tools designed to help us may actually be making us less intelligent. It raises a deeper question about how much of our thinking we’re giving over to machines.
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How to script effective AI tutors with the PERSONA framework—and the ethical questions we can't ignore
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Recent studies demonstrate what while AI technology promises revolutionary change, the reality is far more nuanced; in practice, the difference between the success and failure of AI-avatar trainers as learning professionals lies not in the sophistication of the technology but in how we write the scripts that we paste into it."
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R&D has been getting more difficult and more expensive. We look at how AI can accelerate the process and usher in a new era of growth across industries.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he rate of progress enabled by innovation now faces an under-recognized threat: Innovation is getting more difficult and more expensive."
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Explore how AI, microlearning, and learning analytics transform the flipped classroom into a future-ready model that boosts engagement, critical thinking, and self-directed learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
The flipped classroom has evolved into a personalized, immersive learning model enhanced by AI, microlearning, and learning analytics to improve student preparation and in-class engagement.
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July 1, 10:51 AM
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Ninety-three percent of students across the United States have used AI at least once or twice for school-related purposes, according to the latest AI in Education report from Microsoft.
The report shows a significant increase in student AI use for school, with 42% using it weekly and 30% daily, while the number of students who have never used AI dropped by 20 percentage points from last year.
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July 1, 10:47 AM
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"A new book details how edtech started with the aim of making learning accessible to everyone but did a better job of making a few professors, investors and institutions very rich."
"[W]e should use technology... quite deliberately and to amplify what’s human. But amplifying what’s human is not as sure a way to profit as replacing what’s human."
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July 1, 10:41 AM
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AI reskilling can be a powerful tool for ensuring every member of an organization has a shared vision for their company’s future.
"Once employees and leadership align on AI and its potential, entire businesses–and even entire industries–can begin to fully capitalize on this technology and its ability to shape the future."
"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."