"Voice technologies are no longer just about recognizing what we say; they are beginning to understand how we say it. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it can detect subtle emotional signals in our speech, promising more human-like interactions with machines. Emotional AI is reshaping how voice data is used across industries."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Paralinguistic voice analysis focuses on non-verbal elements of speech like tone, pitch, volume, pauses and rhythm that convey emotion, intention or attitude. While traditional voice recognition focused on transcribing spoken words, emotional AI adds a new layer: interpreting how those words are delivered. Today’s AI systems use deep learning to identify these paralinguistic features in real time."
"Voice technologies are no longer just about recognizing what we say; they are beginning to understand how we say it. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it can detect subtle emotional signals in our speech, promising more human-like interactions with machines. Emotional AI is reshaping how voice data is used across industries."
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EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
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.
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.
Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Because FOSS licenses almost always require attribution, and often also redistribution under identical terms, authorship lines are blurred once AI output is mixed in. This makes license compliance practically impossible."
Learn how to move from banning to partnering with AI in the classroom. Discover scaffolded strategies for teaching with AI in higher education that foster critical thinking, responsible use, and meaningful student learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"By taking a development and scaffolded approach to AI implementation students can benefit from its potential."
"Recently, ABC News reported that a Murdoch University student was taking legal action over what he claims are false allegations of unauthorised AI use in an assignment. In subsequent weeks, another report from the same outlet revealed that several Australian universities had been using AI to detect AI in student work, sparking debate over the reliability of such tools and their role in upholding academic integrity."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since GenAI is not going away, universities must shift from piecemeal fixes to holistic approaches in which policy, assessment design and AI literacy work together to scaffold better outcomes for students and staff."
The recent Tech & Learning webinar, sponsored by Lightspeed Systems, explored what’s really happening with screen time, and what it means for schools.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Screen time is tied to mental health, to student engagement, to educational outcomes, school budgets, even topics like AI,” said Bennett. “Really, all the hot topics that are going on in edtech, screen time relates to them."
"Three weeks ago, YouTube finally decided that I must be interested in writing. Fair enough: I’m a Human-Computer Interaction professor researching writing tools and the impact of AI. Soon, my feed filled with Grammarly ads — and I started reflecting on their curious messages.
What if we took AI writing tool ads seriously?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Ads may seem an odd source for design reflection. Yet they are highly intentional design artefacts because they are expensive and compete for attention."
A study conducted at the University of Chicago found AI detection tools varied widely in quality, and proposes a framework for use both inside and outside of education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he research is a warning sign for educators against relying on many AI detection tools when making decisions about student grades and disciplinary action."
A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As the number of kids seeking computer science degrees falters, STEM-minded high schoolers are looking at fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data."
"As concerns mount over widespread use of large language model (LLM)-based chatbots for schoolwork worldwide, our understanding remains limited regarding their effects on learning and how to customize LLM chatbots and learning tasks to promote effective learning in the era of generative AI."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[P]ost-survey responses revealed that students overestimated the learning benefits of the standard ChatGPT and relied on it more heavily, despite recognizing the advantages of the guided discovery ChatGPT, highlighting the risk of overreliance on standard LLM chatbots.
You’re not just a user. You are part of a system that watches, listens, predicts and nudges.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"ChatGPT (and the models behind it) revealed for the first time how many of its users engage in deeply personal, vulnerable conversations — and by extension, how much the company can know about us."
"There was a time when we would phone a best friend or even write to the agony aunt in the local newspaper for relationship advice. Today, it’s not uncommon for a heartbroken teenager to turn to AI for digital therapy.
At first glance, seeking wisdom or validation from AI might seem harmless. Yet emotional dependence on technology can lead to serious and unintended consequences."
It's a struggle to create guidelines that keep up with rapid advances in the technology.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"School districts across the country are rolling out AI policies to guide how teachers, staff, and students use the technology in response to growing interest and concern about its benefits and drawbacks."
"I was a huge Superman fan as a kid. In fact, my first tattoo was of the Superman symbol — I know, cheesy. But there was something about that idea of strength guided by purpose that stuck with me. However, one character that truly captured my imagination was Superman’s failed copy — Bizarro."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"At the end of the day, these “intelligent” machines are little more than glorified autocorrect systems — predicting, not thinking. That’s dangerous, because it blurs the line between intelligence and imitation."
"What We Create Matters More Than How. A librarian recently asked me a question that perfectly captures where we are right now: "How can we make sure we're not buying books that were written by AI?"
I think my response surprised her: "If the content of the book is actually valuable, do you care?""
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[H]ave we been conflating two separate skills? We've treated writing ability as essential for thinking ability. It's so ingrained in how we define thinking and education that to separate them feels heretical."
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Large language models (LLMs) perform core educational functions: summarizing documents, reasoning about them, answering students’ questions. If colleges and universities start outsourcing tasks like this to tech companies, they could rapidly find that they have outsourced their reason for being."
Discover how online learning is driving the future of education around the world. Learn about its benefits, challenges and how it is evolving classrooms into global digital communities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Whether we are talking about an elementary or secondary student, a university student, or a professional returning to school to upgrade their skills, the internet has opened the door for education to be flexible, affordable, and global."
"Our dynamic AI co-hosts, Andy and Liz, will unpack one of the most thought-provoking interview in EduVerse newsletter: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI: Critical Minds, Smart Tech. This insightful interview was done with Dr. Joseph Rene Corbeil and Dr. Maria Elena Corbeil, featured in EduVerse Newsletter, Issue 21—the special edition AI and Us: The New Harmony in Education, exploring how educators can balance human creativity and critical thinking with the power of AI."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In today’s episode, we’re delving into one of the most transformative conversations of our time—AI and Human Harmony."
AI and education intersect on a fine line between boosting critical thinking and risking cognitive decline, a challenge educators and talent leaders must address.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI can boost critical thinking or undermine it. Educators and talent leaders must learn to navigate this fine line."
The institutions winning this race aren't the ones with the most AI tools—they're the ones using AI strategically to deliver experiences their students can't get anywhere else.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The question is no longer whether to adopt AI—that ship has sailed. The real question is whether your institution will lead this transformation or get left behind by competitors who move faster."
"Advances in large language model (LLM) technology enable chatbots to generate and analyze content for our work. Generative chatbots do this work by predicting responses rather than knowing the meaning of their responses. In other words, chatbots can produce coherent-sounding but inaccurate or fabricated content, referred to as hallucinations. When humans uncritically use this untruthful content, it becomes what we call botshit."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Like calculators in the 1970s, chatbots are likely to follow a similar path from initial skepticism to widespread adoption as supportive tools in education.
AI will change education. Will higher education will move quickly enough to prepare students for the world it is creating?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI should be treated the same way: a tool to enhance learning, not to shortcut it. The real risk lies not in adoption but in absence, in graduating students into an AI-powered economy without the skills to navigate it."
Students are building knowledge about the technology that could help them in future jobs.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Artificial intelligence isn’t a new term that the K-5 students in Selver Perez’s computer-applications classes are learning about for the first time."
"The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when individuals learn about a topic from LLM syntheses, they risk developing shallower knowledge than when they learn through standard web search, even when the core facts in the results are the same."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[L]earning from LLM syntheses (vs. web links) can, at times, limit the development of deeper, more original knowledge."
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"Voice technologies are no longer just about recognizing what we say; they are beginning to understand how we say it. As artificial intelligence (AI) advances, it can detect subtle emotional signals in our speech, promising more human-like interactions with machines. Emotional AI is reshaping how voice data is used across industries."