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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.
harrietwatkins's curator insight,
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.
Katlego Mofokeng's curator insight,
May 19, 3:46 PM
Using technology in education proves affective in helping students/ learners accelerate their learning progress.
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These advanced AI models could have a dramatic impact on education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Compared with generative AI — AI models that are trained to produce text, images or code based on prompts — AGI implies a “target level of capability for general problem-solving, such as reasoning, planning, sensing and acting, across many domains."
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Generative AI can provide opportunities to improve assessment design, clarity, scaffolding, and data analysis, without replacing teacher judgment
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While the allure of AI-assisted grading is strong, particularly when teachers face overwhelming workloads, most districts and experts advise against allowing AI to make evaluative decisions about student performance."
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"Get new users doing instead of learning"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This is one of the most common problems I see in my consulting work, and it’s almost never what the client thinks it is. They assume users need tutorials. They need tooltips. They need a help center with FAQ articles. What they actually need is scaffolding."
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""To understand Artificial Intelligence, we must first understand human behaviour, because AI reflects, accelerates, and magnifies the way we think, act, and decide in the digital world."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If the Internet was a reflection of collective human behaviour, AI is now the accelerator of that reflection."
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"In recent years, artificial intelligence has rapidly integrated into learning, academia and the workforce, and it is not difficult to notice the impact of AI in these areas. The purpose of this article is to discuss the cognitive, academic and societal implications of the widespread adoption of AI."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While there are initial benefits, such as convenience, of using a large language model (LLM), the prolonged use may lead to declines in learning skills and cognitive processes."
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Instead of being defensive when a student asks “why are we learning this?”, let’s treat the question as a path to deeper engagement.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Gen Z has grown up surrounded by constant messaging — some genuine, some hollow... So when they step into a classroom, they’re not looking for performance. They’re looking for proof."
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"A lot of what you know or think you know about artificial intelligence probably comes from movies and science fiction books, but there’s a lot that the movies and the books get wrong about AI. If you want to prepare for AI and be ready for the world that’s coming, maybe you want the real stuff, not the fantasy."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Understanding all these myths helps us make better choices, build better businesses, and if we happen to be writers, write more interesting stories."
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"AI usage is taking off in the workplace, per new Gallup data out Monday, even as workers fear it'll cost them their jobs."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In certain industries the technology is now widespread, and the very nature of how some professionals work is changing."
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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:
"Organized around five dimensions of AI literacy, each dimension features three competency levels to define and characterize mastery."
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"What product designers can learn from how they design intelligence flows."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Everyone thinks Perplexity and NotebookLM succeed because they use 'better AI.' They don’t. They use the same models as everyone else."
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Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If students are using AI to accomplish a goal, the real problem is that their goal isn’t learning—it’s accumulating points to achieve a grade. Generative AI just demonstrates that schools have gotten so caught up in the points-grades-GPA game that students have lost sight of the real goal: learning."
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Aka, how to build AI content that engages learners & enhances learning
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI-powered content generation has become industrialised. Educators are increasingly swapping traditional videos for synthetic AI talking heads. AI-generated images, diagrams and audio are already becoming ubiquitous, while personalised AI tutors and chatbots are becoming increasingly common parts of the learning experience infrastructure rather than experimental “blow your mind” add-ons."
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Digital Promise has announced the launch of the K-12 AI Infrastructure Program, a multi-year initiative "aiming to close the gap between scientific principles of teaching and learning and the promise of generative artificial intelligence."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The program, supported by core partners Learning Data Insights, DrivenData, Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University, and Catalyst @ Penn GSE, will issue $26 million in grants over the next four years to develop openly shared datasets, models, benchmarks, and other foundational AI infrastructure. The resulting resources will be openly licensed for free use to improve the use of AI for teaching and learning, according to a news announcement."
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"In an era dominated by discussions about AI and every other flavor of edtech, a new study delivers a surprisingly analog message: what makes teachers feel successful hasn't changed. It's human connection."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"85% of nearly 2,000 teachers worldwide identified strong teacher-student relationships and active engagement as the two most influential factors in their sense of success."
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AI-driven and live online language platforms grow as Mexico faces rising skill shortages and employers accelerate digital training investments.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As demographic change, technological disruption, and evolving worker expectations converge, language learning is becoming embedded in global reskilling strategies. The sector is expected to play a growing role in workforce readiness, operational resilience, and competitive positioning throughout the decade."
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Educators may want AI to be used well or to go away entirely, write Chloe Salisbury and Luke Zaphir. Here, they take on a central piece of AI lore and offer ways forward
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Here are four common arguments in favor of mandating that students acknowledge the use of AI and why they aren't as persuasive as they might seem."
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"Suite Dreams" are made of these efficient and autonomous robot colleagues.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[E]very step in the automation journey since the Industrial Revolution has reshaped society around technological advancement. Now, for all of the excitement and scrutiny around how generative AI is already changing how we live, work, and create, it’s clear that we—society—are embarking on the next stages of AI workplace transformation."
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"Microsoft has moved its Mesh 3D meeting capabilities into Teams through a new immersive events feature, now generally available. The company retired its standalone Mesh platform as of Dec. 1. The change allows organizations to run avatar-based, 3D virtual events directly in Teams without deploying separate Mesh applications."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Immersive events operate through the Teams calendar and support customizable environments on Windows, macOS, and Meta Quest headsets."
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"When executive brain functions are compromised in virtual learning environments, due to either various external stimuli, an identified specific learning disability, or a combination of both, the individual’s access to a meaningful learning experience is impeded [2–4]. Therefore, educators and instructional designers need to understand the complexity of learning and the impact executive function has on learning in order to develop effective didactics and pedagogy."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[I]ndividuals can recall seven (+/- 2) pieces of new information at one time. Beyond the number seven, memory becomes fragmented and ineffective. Miller reported that when large blocks of material are chunked, it requires less mental command for attention, freeing up the load capacity of the working memory."
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"I’m a developer who’s spent decades working with game engines and AI systems. And watching NPCs stand motionless in elaborate, carefully crafted virtual spaces felt like a waste. These worlds had 3D environments, physics, avatars, ambiance—everything needed for immersion except inhabitants that felt alive. The recent explosion of accessible large language models presented an opportunity I couldn’t ignore. What if we could teach NPCs to actually perceive their environment, understand what people were saying to them, and respond with something resembling intelligence?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"What happens when educators deploy NPCs for interactive learning? When artists create installations featuring characters with distinct personalities? When builders integrate them into complex, evolving storylines?"
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When Dr. Carolina Gutierrez's physics students used artificial intelligence to solve problems, something unexpected happened: The answers were wrong
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI becomes increasingly common in classrooms, teachers are moving beyond curiosity and caution to ask practical questions: How do we use these tools responsibly? How do we ensure equity? And how do we help all students benefit?"
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"In higher education, we have no choice but to accept that machines already are — or very soon will be — better than humans at virtually every intellectual and cognitive task. We can resist, we can throw tantrums, we can ban AI in classrooms. It is a futile battle — and, in fact, it’s the wrong battle."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he machine by itself is a tremendously powerful engine — but without a steering wheel."
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"Emerging personality patterns that drive differentiation in AI products"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Design theory reinforces this! Norman’s emotional design theory shows that products which evoke emotion foster attachment and loyalty, while anthropomorphism explains our instinct to assign human traits to machines."
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Teaching media literacy in the age of AI helps ensure that students have the skills to discern real from fake information.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In a world where artificial intelligence can produce convincing text, images, and even videos in seconds, the ability to read critically is essential. Today, students can find answers faster than any generation before them, but access to information isn’t the same as understanding it. The challenge for educators is helping them move from consuming information to questioning it."
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The rising tide of AI slop has brought with it fake research and other sources that librarians are asked to track down.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI models are generating so much slop that students and researchers keep coming into libraries and asking for journals, books, and records that don’t exist"
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"Educators can now try ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of ChatGPT specifically designed to meet the needs of teachers, which OpenAI launched on Wednesday. The biggest differences between it and the original ChatGPT are the added education-grade security and compliance measures, admin controls, and the ability to collaborate with other educators."