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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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Does ChatGPT enhance student learning? A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies"The study found that ChatGPT enhances academic performance, boosts affective-motivational states, improves higher-order thinking, and reduces mental effort, but does not significantly impact self-efficacy."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The findings reveal that ChatGPT interventions are predominantly implemented at the university level, cover various subject areas focusing on language education, are integrated into classroom environments as part of regular educational practices, and primarily involve direct student use of ChatGPT. Overall, ChatGPT improves academic performance, affective-motivational states, and higher-order thinking propensities; it reduces mental effort and has no significant effect on self-efficacy."
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Students--and institutions--recognize that microcredentials offer a leg up in terms of career success and skill-building.
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"As the labor market evolves and as generative AI impacts industries, students and employers believe microcredentials play an important role in career success"
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Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions.
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"'I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didn’t do,' said Leigh Burrell, who was given a zero on an important assignment because of her professor’s suspicions that she had used A.I. to complete it. In her appeal of the decision, she pulled out all the stops."
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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"
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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
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"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."
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OpenAI has announced GPT-4.1, offering stronger performance across software development, instruction following, and long-context comprehension.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"GPT-4.1improves instruction compliance, particularly for multi-turn and format-sensitive prompts."
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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."
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"[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?
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The secretary of education said it would be a “wonderful thing.” Lots of parents disagree.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
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.
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When AI can generate essays that earn top marks, experiential learning isn’t just an educational trend—it’s a survival strategy.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The answer isn’t competing with AI to deliver information—it’s doing what AI cannot: creating transformative, real-world learning experiences."
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Once AI becomes pervasive, it no longer gives companies an edge over rivals — but cultivating creativity can.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI will transform economies and lift markets as a whole, but lasting differentiation will be built on human creativity and passion."
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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."
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Instead of banning AI in the classroom, teachers can use these three strategies to help students engage AI ethically and effectively.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Rather than attempting to ban AI, teachers and educational leaders are better advised to help students use these tools in an ethical and effective manner."
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Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.
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"Ella Stapleton said she was surprised to find that a professor had used ChatGPT to assemble course materials. “He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said."
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AI agents represent the next frontier beyond chatbots, capable of taking autonomous actions that could transform how we work and live.
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"Agents will result in AI becoming more integrated with our daily lives in useful and meaningful ways."
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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."
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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.
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"A new social media trend may be encouraging students to damage Chromebooks in schools."
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The Student Privacy Pledge was recently retired. But that doesn’t mean that student privacy is safe from threat.
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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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
"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'"
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Students are not only being academically dishonest, but they’re asking AI to be a little dishonest to cover their tracks.
"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."
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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…
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."
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