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According to the article, GenAI is reshaping academia by accelerating a shift toward gig-style, task-based employment, raising questions about job stability and the evolving roles of educators and researchers.
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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.
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As AI use becomes routine in higher education and the workplace, rather than expelling students for using it, colleges should teach students to become effective and responsible users of the technologies their future employers will expect them to know.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Future employers will expect effective and responsible users of these transformative technologies"
It’s time to give tired tech the boot: “We can’t hold on to systems that don’t align with our vision,” says Grace Magley of Natick Public Schools i
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"During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools — sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of urgency. But with pandemic relief funding winding down and pressure mounting to demonstrate educational impact, many districts are now facing a new challenge: cleaning house."
Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, “What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI?”
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As college instructors, we are best served in providing our students with something that AI is not yet able to – our authentic investment in the learning, experiences, and success of our students."
"[W]hen I compare the 7 years I had battling the cellphone in the classroom, vs almost an entire year of phone free schooling, there is no comparison."
What's your take? Ban or take advantage of phones and tablets in class?
The secretary of education said it would be a “wonderful thing.” Lots of parents disagree.
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My take: When integrated thoughtfully, AI can prompt students to analyze, question, and refine AI-generated responses, encouraging deeper engagement with content. Rather than replacing thinking, well-designed AI activities can foster critical evaluation, comparison of ideas, and metacognitive reflection.
If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When writers use precise language to prompt, critical thinking to reflect, and intentional revision to sculpt inputs and outputs, they direct AI to help them generate content that aligns with their vision."
Endless focus is not a realistic goal for tech use. Psychologist Gloria Mark provides advice to help young people focus in the digital era.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"It is important for young people to learn about the importance of mono-tasking, and dangers of media overuse, said Mark. But it is also imperative that students understand the dangers of misinformation, disinformation and cyberbullying."
A new book offers practical, evidence-based strategies for educators to integrate generative AI responsibly in classrooms. It addresses ethics, curriculum, and future trends in AI education.
"Most experts seem to agree that AI will be everywhere within the next five years. Everyday interactions with AI will become just as second nature as browsing the internet. But critical mass adoption isn’t a given. It will require concerted efforts and a series of seemingly small changes by companies to collectively drive cultural and technological shifts from the inside out."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As large language models (LLMs) become more advanced, AI agents and other tools will begin playing a middleman of sorts, introducing efficiencies to both technical and non-technical positions throughout the company."
Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly — both in how it's used and how it's perceived in K-12 education. As a result, schools and districts are under increasing pressure to adapt and respond to the changes AI is driving.
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"[W]hile AI usage and optimism are growing, concerns about issues such as cheating and privacy have not gone away."
A “hot” new trend has resulted in at least one hospitalization and has districts warning K–12 students about the consequences of intentionally damaging devices.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A new social media trend may be encouraging students to damage Chromebooks in schools."
The Student Privacy Pledge was recently retired. But that doesn’t mean that student privacy is safe from threat.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The pledge was an example of self-regulation, arising when the edtech industry felt pressure to safeguard student data but before AI took up so much bandwidth."
The new publication includes guidance for students using AI in their college studies and offers practical advice about preparing for careers that require AI knowledge and skills.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The new Guide helps students prepare for AI use in their studies by covering five key skill areas: research, writing, creative work, data analysis, and learning support."
"As a public education system, we are strongest when we listen – to our data, and to our teachers and students. In embracing EdChat, we chose responsiveness over rigidity, learning over waiting, and trust over control.’ In his latest column for Teacher, Professor Martin Westwell – Chief Executive of the South Australian Department for Education – shares the thinking behind a generative AI chatbot that has been custom-built for teaching and learning, and its initial impact."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In embracing EdChat, we chose responsiveness over rigidity, learning over waiting, and trust over control."
Addressing some of generative AI’s emerging risks for which society’s response is far less developed, especially risks to livelihoods.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Unlike previous automation technologies that primarily affected routine, blue collar work, generative AI is likely to disrupt a different array of “cognitive” and “nonroutine” tasks, especially in middle- to higher-paid professions."
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After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app. Unveiled at Meta's LlamaCon event
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Meta’s AI app can differentiate itself from existing AI assistants because it can '[draw] on information you’ve already chosen to share on Meta products'"
Students are not only being academically dishonest, but they’re asking AI to be a little dishonest to cover their tracks.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Stanford sophomore Eric laid out the technique: use your AI chatbot of choice to create an essay. Next, input its output into another AI chatbot. Finally, run that one through another chatbot and then submit it and take heart knowing that you’ve learned nothing."
AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) A practical framework to guide the appropriate and ethical use of generative AI in assessment design, empowering educators to make purposeful, evidence-based decisions. Explore the AIAS About the AIAS The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) was developed by Mike Perkins, Leon Furze, Jasper Roe, and Jason MacVaugh. First introduced in 2023 and…
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The AIAS is a "practical framework to guide the appropriate and ethical use of generative AI in assessment design, empowering educators to make purposeful, evidence-based decisions."
Clear, practical strategies for helping students use AI responsibly and maintain academic integrity.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future."
"Bookended by in-depth analyses of the historical and future trajectories of artificial intelligence in education, this comprehensive resource provides evidence-based strategies for classroom implementation and helpful summaries of the benefits and risks associated with AI. Teaching assistance, personalized learning, redefined assessments, anti-bias measures, and safeguards against misconduct and privacy infringement are among the wealth of topics addressed in these chapters. Generally, the authors are supportive of the use of AI as a co-intelligent partner for teaching, learning and assessment. They do explore concerns and issues but take a “we need to get on with it” attitude."
"One of the many big questions facing the world today is how to balance the ups and downsides of generative AI. With the genie firmly out of the bottle, governments are grappling with how to protect people, their data, and their jobs while encouraging rather than stifling innovation. And so they should; AI will only be a force for good if there is societal level trust in it, in what it can do, how it will affect our lives, and the safeguards around it. A safe and secure AI ecosystem for all is the right ambition."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI can drive sustainability through smarter resource use and equitable innovation, but its environmental cost demands responsible practices like energy-efficient models, circular hardware use, and mindful balancing of progress with planetary impact."
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According to the article, GenAI is reshaping academia by accelerating a shift toward gig-style, task-based employment, raising questions about job stability and the evolving roles of educators and researchers.