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When Thinking Becomes Optional: What to teach when technology starts thinking for us.

When Thinking Becomes Optional: What to teach when technology starts thinking for us. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI is doing more than changing jobs—it's changing how people think under pressure. A classroom revealed what’s quietly disappearing, and what education must now protect.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI pushes anxious minds toward safety, shrinking curiosity and original thought. Technology matters—but attention, judgment, and taste matter more."

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February 11, 5:29 PM
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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education?

Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond

 

Edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil & Maria Elena Corbeil (2025)

 

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology!

 

If you are designing a course that addresses generative AI in education, this award-winning volume provides a research-driven, classroom-ready foundation. Rather than offering hype or fear, this book helps educators:

  • Ground AI integration in learning theory and research
  • Address academic integrity with thoughtful, practical strategies
  • Redesign assessment for an AI-enabled world
  • Explore ethics, bias, privacy, and institutional responsibility
  • Leverage AI to enhance critical thinking and digital literacy


Bookended by historical and forward-looking analyses of AI in education, the chapters move beyond surface-level discussions to provide evidence-based approaches for real classrooms—K–12, higher education, and professional learning environments.

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Award-winning "Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI" offers research-based, practical guidance for educators seeking to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into their courses—request an inspection copy: https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781032688602.

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What AI needs to accelerate the way humans innovate

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Technological progress occurs when different forms of expertise are combined."

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March 3, 10:11 AM
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Teens admit their true feelings about AI chatbots

Teens admit their true feelings about AI chatbots | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Teens are turning to AI chatbots for homework help, research, entertainment, and emotional support.
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"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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The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future

The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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If AI Is Guiding Career Decisions, It Needs Better Data

If AI Is Guiding Career Decisions, It Needs Better Data | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
CareerNet builds essential infrastructure for career navigation, using shared data and benchmarks to guarantee users high-quality guidance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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The Hidden Cost Of Moving Fast With AI

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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AI Learning Architecture: L&D Must Reshape Itself

AI Learning Architecture: L&D Must Reshape Itself | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learning leaders must shift from AI tool training to designing AI learning architecture with augmentation pathways and embedded governance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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4 in 5 Students Say AI Improved Their Academic Performance—But Only 20% of Universities Have a Formal AI Policy

"New Coursera report shows half of U.S. higher education institutions are unprepared to manage AI

  • 78% of U.S. students and educators say AI is having a positive impact on higher education
  • 50% believe the U.S. higher education system is 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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Report: No Foolproof Method Exists for Detecting AI-Generated Media

Report: No Foolproof Method Exists for Detecting AI-Generated Media | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress

Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Student Stress | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“While universities are learning, too, this confidence and clarity gap needs to be narrowed and eventually closed.”

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February 27, 12:06 PM
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Something big “might” be happening

"Why the future of design belongs to creative thinkers and problem solvers"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The question is, IF I’m able to do all this using a text prompt, is there really a need for a “designer”? Am I on the chopping block?"

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February 26, 1:02 PM
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Beyond "Appropriate Use" of a Chatbot: The AI Literacy No One is Teaching

Beyond "Appropriate Use" of a Chatbot: The AI Literacy No One is Teaching | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Most AI literacy curricula begin and end with the same lesson: here’s how to use ChatGPT responsibly. Learn to prompt. Check your sources. Don’t plagiarize. That’s not AI literacy. That’s a typing tutorial for 2023."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The world students are entering — the world that’s arriving right now — requires something far more comprehensive. The chatbot is just the opening act. What follows is an AI environment that will reshape how young people think, feel, relate, work, and build their identities."

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February 26, 12:55 PM
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How One District Built an AI Culture That Puts Students First

How One District Built an AI Culture That Puts Students First | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Franklin Township Schools (IN) Director of Technology Integration Nadine Gilkison and Superintendent Dr. Chase Huotari share their three-year journey moving beyond AI policy debates to create authentic learning experiences
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"While many school districts remain stuck debating AI policies and compliance issues, Franklin Township Schools in Indiana has built something different: a culture in which artificial intelligence serves as a learning companion rather than another initiative to fear."

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March 3, 10:18 AM
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College students and professors are making their own AI rules

College students and professors are making their own AI rules | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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I tested 200 edtech tools. These are the ones worth using

"From AI study assistants to presentation builders, these free tools can help teachers, students, and parents work smarter."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Video: 3 AI Fears in Higher Education

Video: 3 AI Fears in Higher Education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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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Google, ISTE+ASCD Offer AI Training to All Teachers

Google, ISTE+ASCD Offer AI Training to All Teachers | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Can We Regulate AI Without Stalling Innovation? History Says Yes

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Why Not Ask Why: Neuroscientist Urges Educators to Reconsider Technology’s Reach

Why Not Ask Why: Neuroscientist Urges Educators to Reconsider Technology’s Reach | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Education needs an analog reboot, says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in his new book, “The Digital Delusion,” which lays out how technology ha
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“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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The Right AI Can Help Students With Assigned Readings, Suggests New Research

The Right AI Can Help Students With Assigned Readings, Suggests New Research | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace

Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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…
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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What Slow AI Offers (opinion)

What Slow AI Offers (opinion) | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Whether you’re an AI advocate or a skeptic, the slow AI movement has something to offer."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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February 27, 12:10 PM
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Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses. Now What?

Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses. Now What? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole point."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Einstein is an AI with a computer,” the product website explained when it first went live a few days ago. “He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework—automatically.”

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February 27, 12:04 PM
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What It’s Like to Grow Up With A.I.: The Winners of Our Multimedia Challenge

"Via essays, poems, videos, artwork and graphics, 35 students across the globe reflect on how this technology is affecting teenagers."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"I believe that A.I. is having a more drastic effect on this generation than many might realize."

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February 26, 12:58 PM
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Shadow AI: What Schools Need To Know And Can Do About It

Shadow AI: What Schools Need To Know And Can Do About It | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Shadow AI poses cybersecurity risks and potential data breaches for schools
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[S]hadow AI is the unmonitored use of any unauthorized AI tool or platform by teachers, staff, or students, such as generative AI chatbots or data visualization tools. Having such unvetted AI programs can open schools to the potential for data breaches and other cybersecurity vulnerabilities."

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February 26, 12:51 PM
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Flipped Classroom Pioneer Offers New AI Framework

Flipped Classroom Pioneer Offers New AI Framework | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Flipped classroom pioneer Jon Bergmann wants better AI outside of the classroom and less AI during class time.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Bergmann has developed a new teaching framework that combines flipped learning and mastery learning models with the modern realities of AI. He calls it The Mastery Flip, and its three pillars are designed to maximize the beneficial impact of AI while minimizing its harms and preparing students to harness this technology for the future."

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