As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge... Once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere. One teacher on Reddit even noticed that certain AI phrase structures are making the jump into spoken language."
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Two veteran teachers give 4 rules for responsibly using chatbots in writing workshops.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
With proper ethical guidance, ChatGPT has inspired 9th-grade English students to critically analyze its responses and deepen their own writing and thinking instead of using the tool to cut corners.
"This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM)... Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users... While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Using LLMs to assist essay writing reduced participants’ brain connectivity, cognitive engagement, and sense of authorship compared with search‐engine or tool-free writing, suggesting that long-term reliance on AI may carry cognitive and educational costs.
In trying to personalize learning for students via AI, maybe we’ve focused too much on tailoring content and not on transforming context.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? What if the key to unlocking motivation isn’t something intrinsic to students, but something found in their relationships with peers, teachers, mentors, and communities? And what if the one thing AI can’t do is the one thing students need most?"
The use of AI in education has risks, but it could help personalize learning and free teachers to spend more time doing what only humans can do: connect, mentor, care. Let’s ensure we get this right — by aligning educators and tech experts around what matters most: student outcomes.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Before we let AI teach our children, we must build the scaffolding for responsible AI use among professionals"
A recent academic study found that as organizations adopt AI tools, they're not just streamlining workflows — they're piling on new demands. Researchers suggested that "AI technostress" is driving burnout and disrupting personal lives, even as organizations hail productivity gains.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The study explores AI's dual impact on employees' work and life well-being, finding that while it can increase productivity, it can also cause negative effects, such as the demand to always do more."
"By leveraging generative artificial intelligence to convert lengthy instructional videos into micro-lectures, educators can enhance efficiency while delivering more engaging and personalized learning experiences."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A variety of tools are available to help educators streamline video production; create informative, engaging, and customized videos; and facilitate content mastery. When used appropriately, GenAI tools can add value to the higher education student's experience."
Gen Z is more mindful and less divided than some suggest, writes Jeff LeBlanc in a thoughtful commentary on his experiences teaching post-Millennials.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What I haven’t seen is a loss of values. I’ve seen values under stress. And I’ve seen students rise to meet that stress with reflection, humor, honesty, and in some cases, the emotional clarity that many of us didn’t learn until adulthood. They’re not fractured so much as they’re adapting."
Learn how institutional leaders can develop mission-driven AI policies that balance innovation, ethics, and stakeholder needs in higher education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This article delves into the complexities of developing and implementing an AI framework that not only aligns with an institution’s unique mission but also addresses the diverse needs of its stakeholders, including faculty, students, staff, and administration."
"For AI to succeed, we’ll need to devise new interface patterns that support its capabilities rather than copy those patterns of the technology it seeks to replace."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI needs its own paradigm shift. We need interfaces that wrangle the inherent complexity of AI into something that feels effortless and intuitive."
"Picture this: A teacher excitedly introduces her class to a new AI-powered writing assistant. Students' eyes light up as they prompt the tool and generate paragraph after paragraph with minimal effort. Within minutes, they've produced essays that would have taken hours to write by hand."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The question isn't whether AI belongs in our schools (it's already here). The real question is this: Are we using AI to enhance meaningful learning, or are we letting the tool become the destination instead of the vehicle?"
"In today's fast-paced digital world, where development cycles move faster and consumer expectations are higher than ever, design thinking has become the foundation of human-centered problem-solving. Yet, this powerful framework needs an upgrade when problems become more complex."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As machine intelligence blends with human instinct, GenAI is reshaping how we use execution, experimentation and empathy throughout the design process."
"May marks two and a half years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT. In the first five days, over a million people signed up to try it. People used it to instantly answer questions, write essays, find recipes and build grocery shopping lists. But while consumers found immediate utility, organizations are finding that bringing generative AI (GenAI) into the workplace is a different ballgame—and the stakes are high."
Did you know? Generative AI might feel brand-new, yet its roots stretch all the way back to the 1950 Turing Test and even earlier neural-network breakthroughs—decades before ChatGPT hit the scene.
Discover this surprising timeline, plus the ethical questions and classroom possibilities it unlocks, in Dr. Maria Elena Corbeil’s opening chapter of Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI.
Preview the book here: bit.ly/4jVce93
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Chapter 1 of Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI affords readers with a deeper understanding of the disruptive, yet transformative role generative AI plays in modern education, as well as the balance required to navigate its opportunities and challenges responsibly.
As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge... Once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere. One teacher on Reddit even noticed that certain AI phrase structures are making the jump into spoken language."
"When generative AI entered classrooms, it promised a revolution. For many teachers, it delivered an avalanche of tools instead.
While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Even as teachers adopt AI tools, they’re drawing clear lines in the sand. One of those lines? Relationships."
The AI ship has sailed. If you send home complex homework assignments, many of your students will most likely use AI to do the work. So what should you do? How can you ensure that students actually learn in your class?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If you send home complex homework assignments, many of your students will most likely use AI to do the work. So what should you do? How can you ensure that students actually learn in your class?"
Generative artificial intelligence technology is rapidly changing the labor market. In response, colleges are increasingly looking for ways to offer AI courses to their students to keep up with employer demands.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Generative AI technology is rapidly changing the labor market. Employers are increasingly posting job listings that include AI skills for positions even outside of the technology sector"
Darrell West discusses how the tech industry cannot assuage the public's concerns and backlash by pretending AI harms don't exist.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Despite claims from some industry leaders that AI oversight is unnecessary, widespread public concerns and documented problems—including privacy risks, algorithmic biases, and security breaches—underscore the need for responsible regulation."
The increasing accessibility of AI technologies among K-12 and higher education students has raised concerns around academic integrity, although research shows that these tools may be used to supplement instruction, prioritize critical thinking, and promote digital literacy. The new book “Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI,” edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil, Ed.D., and Maria Elena Corbeil, is a comprehensive resource providing evidence-based strategies for classroom implementation and helpful summaries of common benefits and risks.
"As educators we must strike a balance between harnessing generative AI's immense potential with upholding education's core values of fairness, integrity, and high standards."
How to equip teachers and staff with the necessary skills and confidence to integrate AI into their classrooms
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]hen we talk about artificial intelligence or anything that's associated with personalized learning, we need professional development consistently for teachers across the country to help build that capacity"
"As UX professionals, we need to be more like good doctors. When someone comes to us with “users are confused” or “conversion is low,” our first instinct shouldn’t be to grab our favorite “design treatment”. We should ask: I wonder what layers this problem lives in?"
School IT leaders and educators need a clear understanding of what artificial intelligence tools do. Resources such as workshops can help them adopt a security posture to prepare for AI grading and learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI security in schools will require a culture change and an understanding of who the technology impacts rather than simply a new IT infrastructure"
"AI is revolutionizing businesses worldwide, and could add as much as $13 trillion to the global economy by 2030, according to a McKinsey report. But there is one critical challenge: 76% of companies say they can’t find enough workers with the right AI skills."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While companies are ready to move forward with AI technologies, they are being held back, not by the technology itself, but by the shortage of skilled people."
Explore Time for Class 2025 and discover how educators can empower students amid the rise of generative AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This latest report in Tyton’s annual series examines how higher education is responding to the rapid rise of generative AI, deepening student engagement challenges, and shifting expectations around flexibility and support."
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"As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge... Once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere. One teacher on Reddit even noticed that certain AI phrase structures are making the jump into spoken language."