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onto Educational Technology News April 1, 2025 1:23 PM
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A new report from VitalSource identifies a growing demand among learners for AI tools, declaring that "AI isn't just a nice-to-have; it's a must."
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April 23, 8:38 AM
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"We are living through a fundamental shift in what work is for. As AI takes on more routine cognitive tasks, the uniquely human capacity to imagine, connect, and create meaning becomes the primary source of organizational value. Yet most companies are still measuring performance metrics prioritized for a different era: inventory turnover, cost per lead, and utilization rates."
"These metrics were designed to optimize extraction. They are poorly equipped to cultivate imagination."
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April 23, 8:36 AM
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From data privacy and staff readiness to classroom fit and long-term cost, here are the questions schools should ask before investing in AI.
"[B]efore investing in AI, school leaders should ask different questions. What problem are we actually trying to solve? Who will use it? What data will it store? Do we have the capabilities to use it effectively? How much control will we have? What happens if we get this wrong?"
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April 23, 8:31 AM
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"In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Barr Seitz speaks with McKinsey Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin, and Eric Lamarre, McKinsey senior partner emeritus and special adviser, about the second edition of Rewired (Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI, Wiley, April 2026). They discuss what has changed over the past few years, what it means to build organizational speed, and why the most important transformations are ultimately about people."
"A rewired organization is one that has graduated to truly impactful, distributed innovation across the organization."
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April 22, 1:41 PM
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A new resource from CoSN provides guidelines for creating responsible technology use policies and supporting digital citizenship in schools and districts.
"CoSN promotes Responsible Use Agreements over traditional AUPs: The report recommends complementing compliance-based policies with RUAs that are clearer and more student- and family-friendly."
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April 22, 1:38 PM
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"Higher education is having a familiar conversation in an unfamiliar moment. We are debating whether students “should” use AI, whether it is “ethical,” whether it is “cheating,” whether we can “ban” it, whether we can “detect” it, whether it will “go away.” This is what happens when an institution confuses discomfort with principle."
"In higher education, AI should be a human-centered tool inside a curriculum that expects more from students, not less."
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April 22, 1:34 PM
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Learn three practical ways to humanize generative AI in the classroom and use AI to support student-centered learning, critical thinking, and differentiated instruction.
"AI is already changing the nature of academic work. It can write, summarize, and analyze with remarkable speed. But its most important contribution may be what it gives back to instructors, time to: design richer learning experiences, think more creatively about their teaching, and finding the students."
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April 22, 1:27 PM
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"Scroll LinkedIn for ten minutes, and you’ll meet him. The Refuser. He writes his own emails. He does his own thinking. He wants you to know this. The post is usually a variation on the same beat: I asked ChatGPT to do X and look how bad it was. Imagine outsourcing your mind to this. The comments agree vigorously. Everyone feels better. Nothing has been learned."
"What AI does, for the person willing to use it well, is strip the proxy away and leave the actual variable exposed: what do you know, what do you notice, what do you care about enough to push back on?"
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April 22, 1:16 PM
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Unsure how to spot AI-generated content? These tips can help.
"One of the biggest red flags is what I call the 'Wikipedia Voice,' or text that's grammatically perfect but completely soulless, relying on vague, over-the-top language that parrots the prompt back at me."
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April 21, 9:27 AM
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Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Extron's Jason Bond explains how districts can start small with esports AV infrastructure, leverage dual-purpose spaces, and use AV over IP to build a scalable foundation for student engagement.
"You're going to use that esports space for something like graphics design or cybersecurity training during the day, and then in the evening or after school hours, it becomes the esports playing facility."
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April 21, 9:24 AM
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Institution-wide AI adoption surged 17 points in 2025. Ellucian State of AI in Higher Education survey reveals strategy, barriers, and what to do next.
"Institution-wide adoption surged: from 49% in 2024 to 66% in 2025, a 17-point jump that signals AI has moved beyond experimentation and into mainstream operational and strategic integration."
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April 21, 9:21 AM
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A poll of 94,000 students, faculty and staff across 22 CSU campuses found nearly every respondent had used AI at some point, but students were still wary of trusting it and faculty reported negative effects.
"The survey found that despite mixed views on AI, more than 70 percent of the faculty desired formal training on it, and about half of students do too."
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April 20, 12:21 PM
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"Here is one surefire way to poke the academic beehive:
1) Declare that artificial intelligence can already do research more capably than many professors.
2) Embed that claim in an essay that lays out nine additional theses — “The academic paper is a dead format walking”; “Much of the opposition to AI is status protection dressed up as principle” — equally guaranteed to provoke outrage.
3) Reveal in a second essay that the first essay was in fact written by AI."
"Even for AI skeptics, it just takes one “aha” moment to go from regarding AI as a hallucinating tool to having it completely change your life."
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April 23, 8:39 AM
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"Nearly two out of three American adults have used an AI-powered search tool in the past six months. But here’s the stat that should keep every product builder up at night: only 15% say they trust the results “a lot.”
That gap between adoption and trust is the defining challenge for the next era of AI search. Consumers are showing up, but they are questioning the results. As product builders, we have to ask ourselves an uncomfortable question: Are we building experiences that earn and deserve consumer trust?"
"More than half of consumers say AI search feels like a walled garden. Here’s what product builders need to do about it"
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April 23, 8:37 AM
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This article shows how to use AI assessment guardrails to responsibly use AI-generated assessments while protecting quality and trust.
"AI can speed up assessment creation, but without guardrails it can also introduce errors, bias, and weak alignment."
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April 23, 8:33 AM
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After ChatGPT’s launch, the percentage of routine coding questions on an online forum fell sharply, while novel questions rose.
"[M]any of the routine coding questions that developers once posted on popular online forum Stack Overflow appear to have moved to AI tools, while the more novel problems still require human expertise."
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April 23, 8:27 AM
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The Prosocial AI Index offers business leaders a practical, auditable way to assess whether their AI systems are genuinely good, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.…Read More
"Most organizations are evaluating AI with the wrong instruments — efficiency metrics and ROI dashboards that capture what is easy to count but miss what truly matters for people, purpose, and planet."
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April 22, 1:40 PM
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Passed in 1974, FERPA was never meant to govern cloud-based platforms, artificial intelligence, or the invisible flow of student data across third-party vendors. Our students deserve better.
"FERPA is outdated for modern ed tech use: Written in 1974 for paper records, FERPA does not address cloud platforms, AI, or widespread data sharing across digital tools."
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April 22, 1:36 PM
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Educators must seize on the opportunity to coach students on effective and acceptable uses of AI that enhance literacy learning.
"There are clearly questions raised about where to draw lines around when and how students should use AI tools; however, the reality is that the tools are here and students are using them."
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April 22, 1:29 PM
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The shift from AI possibility to measurable progress in higher education is underway.AI is not a future consideration.
"With few exceptions, institutions are no longer debating whether AI will transform the sector; instead, they are focused on how quickly they can translate its many possibilities into meaningful progress."
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April 22, 1:22 PM
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Educators should not be competing with chatbots and large language models. Instead, a continuum can help them guide students from passive learning from AI to synthesising information alongside it
"To preserve this intellectual agency, we need to stop treating AI as a monolithic tool and instead guide students through purposeful pedagogical engagement with it."
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April 21, 9:29 AM
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"Even the most well-intentioned edtech can fall short if it does not meet students where they are. After several years studying the usability of edtech for teachers, the research team at ISTE+ASCD turned its attention to students — examining how the technical and pedagogical design of digital tools shapes their learning experiences."
"The findings identify five areas that matter most to students and offer guidance for educators and product designers seeking tools that are intuitive, meaningful and engaging."
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April 21, 9:26 AM
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As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.
"There is now a growing body of research suggesting that this "cognitive offloading" to AI can have a corrosive effect on our mental abilities. The consequences could be alarming and may even contribute to cognitive decline."
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April 21, 9:22 AM
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A majority of U.S. college students use artificial intelligence in their coursework at least weekly, yet about half say their schools discourage or prohibit it.
"Widespread use of AI among college students occurs even as many report restrictions on its use in the classroom."
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April 21, 9:19 AM
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Peter McCrory talks about Anthropic's latest analysis of AI's role in occupations from computer programming to groundskeeping.
"One thing that I really found fascinating is the framing around AI “exposure”—the idea that the extent of a profession’s exposure to AI depends on the job tasks inherent to that profession."
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April 20, 12:15 PM
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A higher ed survey reveals widespread belief that AI is the future--but that belief is paired with worries about job security.
"The CSU AI survey’s findings suggest the question is no longer whether AI belongs in higher education, but how institutions should lead its use thoughtfully, consistently and at scale."
"Forty-eight percent of 2023-present students said that the AI tools were likely or extremely likely to improve their course experience, a 19% increase from pre-2023 respondents who said the same."