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onto Educational Technology News December 23, 2024 11:35 AM
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Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they're on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by teens.
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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, 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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School leaders must decide how — and whether — to integrate artificial intelligence-specific lessons into computer science programs.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is creating a new digital divide in K–12 education, an AI skills gap that threatens to leave some students behind."
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University staff are under pressure to produce more with less. But what if, instead of using GenAI to save time, we took a slower approach?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What if, instead of speeding up, GenAI could help us slow down? Used thoughtfully, these tools can encourage reflection, deepen dialogue and make space for richer connections between research and teaching."
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Microcredentials operate differently from traditional education, and they call for a more flexible, adaptable system to organize and classify learning
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"Microcredentials are most powerful when they are nimble, capable of capturing specific, focused, and meaningful learning experiences."
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Educators should embrace the massive, powerful new presence of AI in learning environments and explore its unseen potential in the classroom.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What most of us see–what most faculty and students seem to understand about it–is only the small portion visible above the surface."
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Academic institutions have an important role to play in providing concrete pathways to reinforce students' optimism and curiosity about AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Despite most of the students enjoying the benefits of AI, more than half feel that universities and colleges aren’t doing enough to prepare them for the future shaped by the rapidly evolving technology."
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Most of us in higher education are now familiar with generative AI bots, where you formulate a prompt and get a reply. Yet, we are now beginning the advancement to agentic AI, the autonomous 24-7 project manager. The dramatic enhancement in the capability of AI as it moves from bots to agents will bring about efficiencies and have a far greater impact on the day-to-day operations, strategies and effectiveness of our institutions. We will become less expensive, more personalized and more responsive to students and employers. Those are big claims, so for this column, I turned to my personal assistant, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro on Nov. 1, 2025, to help me with identifying the pathway to those outcomes.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The institutions that win in 2027 will be those that successfully trained their managers to lead mixed teams of human and AI employees. This is the single greatest competitive advantage one can build."
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With microlearning in hybrid work, employees learn quickly in the flow of work, anytime, across locations and devices.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[E]mployees who engage with microlearning often spend significantly less time training, sometimes up to 80% less, without a loss in productivity or impact, and in some cases even with improved retention."
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"Our dynamic AI co-hosts, Andy and Liz, will unpack one of the most thought-provoking interview in EduVerse newsletter: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: Critical Minds, Smart Tech. This insightful interview was done with Dr. Joseph Rene Corbeil and Dr. Maria Elena Corbeil, featured in EduVerse Newsletter, Issue 21—the special edition AI and Us: The New Harmony in Education, exploring how educators can balance human creativity and critical thinking with the power of AI."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Ep. 29: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: Critical Minds, Smart Tech - "In today’s episode, we’re delving into one of the most transformative conversations of our time—AI and Human Harmony." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight,
November 4, 9:39 AM
"In today’s episode, we’re delving into one of the most transformative conversations of our time—AI and Human Harmony."
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Instead of policing whether AI was used, educators should focus on how it is used to help students learn and produce quality work.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Using AI responsibly is not cheating. Using it secretly or deceptively is."
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"Dual degrees and stackable credentials are fast becoming the new currency of global careers. As automation and skills-based hiring redefine the job market, an overwhelming 96% of employers now confirm that micro-credentials significantly strengthen a candidate's application."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[A]n overwhelming 96% of employers now confirm that micro-credentials significantly strengthen a candidate’s application."
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The technology consulting firm Attain Partners suggested three simple questions to prompt thinking about institutional AI strategy and make sure it fits institutional priorities and realities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"To help frame that work,... IT leaders [should] begin designing institutional AI strategy with three questions, covering project size, focus and governance."
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Combining collaborative accountability with personal ownership helps students take risks, navigate challenges and reflect more deeply, writes Dane Taylor
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
["D]esign projects that guide students through two modes of working: first, as part of a group, then as an individual. Moving from shared responsibility to full personal ownership changes how they make decisions, manage setbacks and define achievements."
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Printers may not be glamorous, but they are an often-overlooked attack vector that should be part of every district's cybersecurity strategy.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Cyber attacks are hitting K–12 schools with alarming regularity. From mid-2023 through 2024, more than four out of five reporting districts faced some kind of breach, such as ransomware, stolen data, or network lockouts. And still, one part of the network gets little attention: the printers."
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"When ChatGPT-3.5 was released in November of 2022, it was immediately clear that education would change forever. It sparked dramatic headlines speculating the effect of the program on higher education, such as “The College Essay Is Dead” from The Atlantic, and opened a world of untapped possibilities for cheating, plagiarism and rampant misinformation that educators were left to restrain. It’s been a few years since the initial launch of ChatGPT, and the advances in subsequent versions show that ChatGPT’s developers have not lost any ambition."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Given that AI will only become more prevalent in our lives, universities should be taking more formal steps to make sure graduating students are literate in the practical uses of AI and leave college with a well-rounded understanding of the ethical issues surrounding it."
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Discover how experiential learning with AI accelerates real mastery, transforms practice into performance, and improves results.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
AI-powered "[s]imulators bridge the gap between knowing and doing. They recreate real job situations — customer conversations, critical decisions, conflict resolution, leadership, compliance, safety, and more."
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Shedding old edtech is a real pain, district experts say. Worse, student privacy may be at risk.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As the number of digital tools used in schools continues to grow, so does the volume of student data crossing private servers. Advocates are calling for stronger vendor accountability, standardized data deletion certifications, and federal guidance on how long vendors can retain student information after contracts end."
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AI’s future in education will be determined not by algorithms alone, but by the trust of the educators who use them in higher ed.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Nearly seven in 10 educators across the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are limiting how students can use AI tools in class"
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"As the digital age progresses, our idea of art and the means and systems to create it expands. Recent developments of Artificial Intelligence have stirred a plethora of conversations and sparked protests, lawsuits, and movements throughout many industries demanding for regulations around artificial life."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Whether I use it or not, I need to understand it, or I will be fooled by it. I need to use it well, or I am contributing to wasteful destruction"
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"How to translate philosophical theory into practical design principles and responsibility."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Ethical Interface Design helps designers understand not only the impact of their choices but also the ethical frameworks behind them"
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November 10, 1:17 PM
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QR codes look sleek and are everywhere, however, in education, they’re often misused.
"Educators and students usually engage using laptops, tablets, or desktops. So when a QR code is plastered on a slide, agenda, or online resource with no alternative, it’s not innovative; it’s misguided."
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November 10, 1:14 PM
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Discover how integrating career readiness into every discipline helps students connect learning to real-world success and strengthens academic engagement.
"[H]elping students succeed beyond the academic setting is a shared responsibility, particularly as the call for post-academic success continues to grow."
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November 10, 1:10 PM
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"In this candid conversation, three college presidents share how they're prioritizing AI investments that directly impact student learning experiences and focus on operational efficiencies that can free up resources and improve service delivery. Attendees who join the session live will be able to participate in a workshop where they can share and rank AI adoption strategies."
"Should institutions prioritize AI investments that directly impact student learning experiences, or focus on operational efficiencies that can free up resources and improve service delivery? Are these truly competing priorities, or can they be part of a unified strategy?"
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November 10, 1:03 PM
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Chinese EV maker Xpeng debuted its walking humanoid robot Iron at the AI Day event. It's so lifelike, they had to cut it open on stage.
"Human beings, with our awkward bipedal shape, are actually a terrible blueprint for robots, yet engineers keep creating new humanoid robots. We just can't help but create beings in our own image, apparently."
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November 10, 12:58 PM
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Find out how to encourage critical thinking in the university classroom by working with GenAI tools, rather than against them
"The real challenge for faculty isn’t just catching misuse – it’s inspiring students to want to take the long path instead of shortcuts."
"YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they’re on these sites almost constantly"