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onto Educational Technology News January 6, 11:58 AM
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"High completion rates in AI courses don't always equal high adoption. If your organization is "training" but not "transforming," you might be falling into one of these four common traps. Here is how to use a diagnostic-first operating system to fix the disconnect."
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Today, 12:23 PM
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Learn why and how teachers can use generative AI to streamline lesson planning, personalize explanations, and automate retrieval practice—without losing instructional control.
"To guide educators on how to get the most out of generative AI...we picked three important aspects of instructional practice: lesson planning, providing explanations, and retrieval practice."
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Today, 12:17 PM
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"Two educators who use artificial intelligence in their classroom combine prompt engineering, in-class assignments and guardrails."
"Successfully infusing artificial intelligence into the classroom means boosting students’ AI literacy without using the tech to offload their thinking. But that requires teachers first getting up to speed on AI"
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Today, 12:13 PM
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Results of two gatherings make case for visionary yet balanced approaches to AI.
"Retreating from AI, the authors find, creates 'the worst of both worlds' — students who can neither think independently nor use AI effectively."
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March 3, 10:18 AM
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More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.
"More than half of students who used AI for coursework had mixed feelings about it, reporting that it helps them sometimes but can also make them think less deeply."
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March 3, 10:15 AM
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"From AI study assistants to presentation builders, these free tools can help teachers, students, and parents work smarter."
"The top-tier tools have consistently been super valuable for me—in my teaching, in my job at the City University of New York, and as a dad of two daughters. To save you the time and effort of sifting through the chaff, I’m sharing the ones I find most useful."
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March 3, 10:09 AM
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"Across campuses, conversations about artificial intelligence are sometimes being framed by unease rather than enthusiasm. Leaders, faculty and students are questioning how fast to move, what might break and who bears the risk."
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March 3, 10:05 AM
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K-12 teachers and higher education faculty across all grade levels and subject areas will have free access to AI literacy training modules designed by Google and aligning with ISTE+ASCD standards.
"Every U.S. educator will have free access to professional learning about artificial intelligence in the coming months, thanks to a partnership between Google and the ed-tech nonprofit ISTE+ASCD."
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March 2, 2:17 PM
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"Nearly every technological revolution of the past 150 years—from the automobile to televisions, microwave ovens and smartphones—has been marked by both extraordinary promise and deep public fear. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is no exception."
"Can we build the structures of trust and reliability early enough to allow innovation to accelerate to new heights, without sacrificing safety?"
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March 2, 2:14 PM
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Education needs an analog reboot, says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in his new book, “The Digital Delusion,” which lays out how technology ha
“Teach someone to use a tool and they’ll be able to use that tool...Teach someone how to think and they’ll be able to use any tool.”
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March 2, 2:08 PM
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A recent study of college students using AI to help understand assigned readings found that they would read AI summaries instead of the text. It doesn’t have to be this way.
"Students could clearly articulate what good AI engagement looked like as they told us things like, ‘the better your questions are, the more helpful AI can be,’”
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March 2, 2:04 PM
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There are many paths AI evolution could take. On one end of the spectrum, AI is dismissed as a marginal fad, another bubble fueled by notoriety and misallocated capital. On the other end, it’s cast as a dystopian force, destined to eliminate jobs on a large scale and destabilize economies. Markets oscillate between skepticism and…
"Markets oscillate between skepticism and the fear of missing out, while the technology itself evolves quickly"
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February 27, 12:18 PM
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"Whether you’re an AI advocate or a skeptic, the slow AI movement has something to offer."
"Slow AI resists the cult of acceleration. It does not call for banning AI. Instead, it argues for embedding pause and reflection into how we design, use and teach with these tools."
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Today, 12:27 PM
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Why are students so comfortable using AI for emotional support?
"Navigating budget shortfalls and limited mental health staff, Interlachen Jr.-Sr. High School, where Phillips works, is using an AI platform to vet students’ mental health needs."
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Today, 12:19 PM
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"After the FCC pulled back coverage for school bus Wi-Fi and hotspots, K-12 leaders are scrambling to connect students without home internet."
"[L]ow-income urban school districts are also feeling the brunt of the E-rate expansion reversal — from both an infrastructure and affordability perspective."
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Today, 12:15 PM
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"For years, computer science was marketed as one of the safest degrees in higher education. Strong demand, high wages and a seemingly endless need for technical talent made CS feel like a guaranteed return on investment. Today, that certainty is being questioned."
"Entry-level hiring is more competitive than it was just a few years ago, and routine technical tasks are increasingly supported by automation and AI-enabled tools."
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Today, 12:10 PM
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"Momentum appears to be growing against any screen time in schools as states like Tennessee and Kansas propose prohibiting ed tech for grades K-5."
"At least five states are considering legislation this year to limit or ban ed tech to some extent in classrooms — moving beyond widespread prohibitions on students’ personal devices to also include those issued by districts during the school day."
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March 3, 10:16 AM
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"In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket—the hole in a door frame that a bolt slides into—in a slab of sandstone by pecking at it with a rounded stone. After a couple of weeks, the student presented his results to the class. “I pecked the sandstone about 10,000 times,” he said, “and then it broke.”
This kind of experience is known as individual learning. It works through trial and error, with lots of each."
"Technological progress occurs when different forms of expertise are combined."
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March 3, 10:11 AM
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Teens are turning to AI chatbots for homework help, research, entertainment, and emotional support.
"New research gives a glimpse into how teens are using artificial intelligence."
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March 3, 10:08 AM
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"In the age of AI, the true future of higher education lies not in replacing faculty but in freeing them to do what only humans can—build meaningful relationships, cultivate wisdom, and guide students through the ethical and intellectual challenges machines cannot navigate."
"The age of AI calls for reclaiming an elevated role for higher education institutions and a commensurate elevation of the faculty who make that role possible."
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March 3, 10:01 AM
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CareerNet builds essential infrastructure for career navigation, using shared data and benchmarks to guarantee users high-quality guidance.
"When we ask young people how they’re making decisions about their futures, the answers are revealing. They say they aren’t waiting passively for direction. They’re searching, comparing, watching, asking, and piecing things together. They’re scrolling TikTok for day-in-the-life videos, messaging older friends about internships, combing through Reddit threads, browsing job boards, and trying to decode what a college website really means when it lists “career outcomes.”
And increasingly, they’re turning to AI chatbots for answers."
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March 2, 2:15 PM
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"Organizations are moving fast with AI—often faster than their ability to govern it. Models are being deployed, decisions are being automated and processes are being reshaped at a pace that traditional risk frameworks were never designed to absorb. What’s striking is how quietly risk accumulates."
"AI risk debt: risk that compounds over time because governance assumptions fail to evolve at the same speed as technology."
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March 2, 2:10 PM
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Learning leaders must shift from AI tool training to designing AI learning architecture with augmentation pathways and embedded governance.
"To remain strategic, learning leaders must shift from tool training to workforce architecture—designing augmentation pathways, embedding governance, and measuring real performance."
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March 2, 2:06 PM
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"New Coursera report shows half of U.S. higher education institutions are unprepared to manage AI
AI adoption is widespread among U.S. university students and educators, yet half believe higher education is not fully prepared to manage its impact, according to a new survey released today by Coursera (NYSE: COUR), a leading global online learning platform."
"78% of educators and students feel positive about AI’s impact on higher education"
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February 27, 12:20 PM
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Microsoft has released a new research report warning that no single technology can reliably distinguish AI-generated content from authentic media, and that deepening reliance on any one method risks misleading the public.
"The study identified limitations across each authentication method when used in isolation."
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February 27, 12:15 PM
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Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear, has students on edge. Universities have been urged to reconsider their use of tools that claim to be able to detect artificial intelligence after a survey found three-quarters of U.K. students using AI feel stressed that their work will be wrongly flagged as cheating.
“While universities are learning, too, this confidence and clarity gap needs to be narrowed and eventually closed.”
"The problem isn't your Instructional Design. The problem is that we are treating AI adoption as a content challenge when it is actually a workflow challenge."