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"At the heart of AI is the goal of elevating human potential. When technology manages mundane or repetitive tasks, we are free to focus on creativity, collaboration, and decision-making. By offloading routine tasks to AI, workflows that once took days can be completed in hours, enabling people to think bigger and move faster."
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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.
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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.
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The framework focuses on AI literacy for all, as well as specialized literacy that can be adapted to different disciplines and jurisdictions.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The Digital Education Council, which focuses on education and innovation through collaboration between higher-ed institutions and the workforce, has outlined an AI Literacy framework that takes a human-centered approach to AI literacy."
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OpenAI released its newest AI model and said it can understand uploaded images like whiteboards, sketches and diagrams, even if they're low quality.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"With o3, users can upload whiteboards, sketches and other images and have the AI analyze and discuss them. The models can also rotate, zoom and use other image-editing tools."
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Digital transformation has already made its presence felt and is set to be a permanent fixture in the field of education. Embracing it will yiel
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Digitalisation is a goal across education, but achieving this is fraught with challenges, with observability being key to a good outcome; consistent visibility, a comprehensive understanding of service dependencies, performance, availability and security are all needed."
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Incorporating AI into education and providing AI training for educators will help equip the next generation of American AI innovators.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A new executive order signed by President Trump takes aim at AI policies in K-12 education by 'fostering interest and expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) technology from an early age to maintain America’s global dominance in this technological revolution for future generations.""
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"Artificial intelligence has become the new geopolitical fault line – and universities now sit squarely on it. Washington’s export-control regime blocks sales and technical support for advanced AI chips to China; Beijing, for its part, requires recommendation algorithms and generative-AI models to be filed with – and in some cases to be licensed by – state regulators; and Brussels has approved the world’s first cross-sector ‘trustworthy AI’ act."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As universities stand at this critical intersection, they must consider whether AI policies will become an efficient tool for their growth or a challenge to their foundational values."
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"At the heart of meaningful education is a powerful idea: learners thrive when they are trusted to shape their learning and believe they are capable of success. This fusion of agency (being afforded real choices) and self-efficacy (believing in one's ability to act on those choices) transforms education from routine compliance into purposeful growth."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Agency without self-efficacy resembles aimlessness. A learner with options but lacking skills or confidence may disengage."
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From
leonfurze
Over the next few months, I’ll be updating my 2023 Teaching AI Ethics collection. In this post, I’ll explain why the updates are necessary and give a recap on the nine original areas from the series. When I wrote the original series in 2023, ChatGPT was only just on people’s radars. I had started my […]
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The growing ubiquity of generative artificial intelligence, including large language models and image generation, has meant that most educators will encounter the technology in their classrooms, whether they personally agree with its use or not."
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Content curation is a vital part of the creative process. In this blog post and podcast, we explore why curation matters and how we can help students learn how to engage in the curation process. Listen
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]e live in a world an instant information ecosystem, where ideas go viral without much thought regarding accuracy and validity. It’s a place where content is cheap. Cheap to make. Cheap to share. Cheap to consume. And even cheaper now with AI."
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"With technology inundating our lives and online education being more popular than ever, the field of Learning and Development (L&D) is emerging as a highly desirable choice for future professionals as well as a sought-after talent pool for many businesses."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While there are numerous titles and roles involved in the design, development, and implementation of eLearning, the ones we hear the most are Instructional Designers (IDs) and eLearning developers. But were you aware that these two roles are different from each other despite operating in the same field and often side by side?"
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"[W]hat kind of future do we want to build for L&D — one that reinforces and scales the status quo, or one that reimagines what learning can be?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For instructional designers, the augmentation path means re-skilling, not de-skilling, taking on new roles which help to co-create and maintain AI systems which optimise employee performance."
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Gen Z has arrived at that awkward phase where the first of their generation are old enough to be blamed for ruining dating and office culture while th
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since Zoomers began to reach age 16 in 2013, the rate of students who drop out of high school has fallen to its lowest level and remained steady at 4 percent."
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"When used thoughtfully and transparently, generative artificial intelligence can augment creativity and challenge assumptions, making it an excellent tool for exploring and developing ideas."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This article explores two key questions about GenAI to address common misconceptions and encourage broader adoption and more effective use of these tools in higher education."
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Teachers are integrating AI into instruction, but little is known about how districts are supporting them during the rollout of AI in schools
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Roughly half of districts in a nationally representative survey reported that they have provided training to their teachers about generative AI-powered tools"
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"Buckle up as we chart through a new wave of shifting tech and design paradigms"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Technological breakthroughs have continuously shaped humanity for the past centuries, transforming how we live, work, and interact with the world. As theorists and economists have pointed out, we move in innovation waves or cycles."
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"As we approach May, alarm bells are ringing for all colleges and universities to ensure that AI literacy programs have been completed by learners who plan to enter the job market this year and in the future."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"To be AI literate,... you must understand how generative AI works, be able to use it effectively, know how to evaluate its output, and understand its weaknesses and dangers"
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ace-ed
"Using virtual reality (VR) in the classroom can lead to “significant increases” in knowledge retention and motivation among students, according to new international research. A study involving more than 300 students from vulnerable communities inKeep Reading Study Finds Virtual Reality Improves Students’ Knowledge Retention and Motivation"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he results show that VR 'not only enhances academic performance, it also supports the development of essential cognitive and social skills in active learning, such as attention, memory, and motivation.'”
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Security researchers have discovered a highly effective new jailbreak that can dupe nearly every major large language model.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Security researchers have discovered a highly effective new jailbreak that can dupe nearly every major large language model into producing harmful output, from explaining how to build nuclear weapons to encouraging self-harm."
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"This manifesto critically examines the unfolding integration of Generative AI (GenAI), chatbots, and algorithms into higher education, using a collective and thoughtful approach to navigate the future of teaching and learning. GenAI, while celebrated for its potential to personalize learning, enhance efficiency, and expand educational accessibility, is far from a neutral tool. Algorithms now shape human interaction, communication, and content creation, raising profound questions about human agency and biases and values embedded in their designs. As GenAI continues to evolve, we face critical challenges in maintaining human safeguarding equity, and facilitating meaningful, authentic learning experiences."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This manifesto emphasizes that GenAI is not ideologically and culturally neutral. Instead, it reflects worldviews that can reinforce existing biases and marginalize diverse voices."
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Technological advancements, like electricity and AI, often appear inevitable, yet their development has been shaped by historical choices and market forces. This article suggests that while AI technology is becoming ubiquitous, we must resist the narrative of inevitability, retaining our agency to question and critique its influence on society.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Inevitability suggests a certain hopelessness, a sense of having given up."
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ChatGPT remembers details about your work, writing style, and projects—so I asked it, “What am I best at?” Its response made me smile and got me thinking about other prompts that tap into AI’s memory for personal insights.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"ChatGPT can remember details about your writing style, work, and projects from past conversations. If memory is turned on (under Settings → Personalization), it keeps track of what you’ve shared so you don’t have to repeat yourself."
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Overcoming some common Generative AI (GenAI) challenges is covered in this Pipeline magazine article from Dr. Mark Cummings. Learn how master GenAI challenges to spur innovation.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"One of the biggest problems surrounding GenAI is the amount of noise. That is, how many people who lack basic current technical GenAI information appear to be making authoritative pronouncements."
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Training through videos in online learning enhances the learners' performance at the work place. Let us see how.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]atching videos helps boost brain plasticity. Research carried out by them states that learners who are trained to perform a particular task through videos performed better than learners who learned through images and text."
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The directive’s big aims are teaching students and training teachers to use AI in order to improve education outcomes.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
The order promotes “appropriate integration of AI into education” to “ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution.”
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These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short"
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"The need for deep student engagement became clear at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine when a potential academic-integrity issue revealed gaps in its initial approach to artificial intelligence use in the classroom, leading to significant revisions to ensure equitable learning and assessment."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Thirteen students in an MPH course submitted suspiciously similar open-book exam answers—featuring identical structure, novel content, and vocabulary—raising concerns of AI-generated responses after matching content was found through a commercial AI search engine."
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"By offloading routine tasks to AI, workflows that once took days can be completed in hours, enabling people to think bigger and move faster."