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onto Educational Technology News January 15, 2:31 PM
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Technology is changing the work of teachers, but education must remain human-led.
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"Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar prompt, one we have returned to countless times over the past decade.
This time felt different. The task was to triangulate, even pinpoint, what these concepts mean in today’s educational landscape."
"If machines can do much of what we once taught students to do, what should learning now require?"
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Today, 1:28 PM
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The goal is not to eliminate AI from the classroom; the goal is to ensure that human thinking remains central.
"The more productive question for educators is not, 'How do we prevent AI use?' but rather, 'How do we design assessments that assume AI is present and still measure meaningful learning?'"
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Today, 1:24 PM
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"As AI becomes more accessible, experience—not technical skill—becomes the differentiator."
"The leverage in AI doesn’t come from typing prompts quickly; it comes from knowing what matters, what doesn’t, and what consequences might follow."
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March 10, 2:02 PM
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What to consider when developing a formal AI policy, from an Ohio CIO who has been leading the effort to draft his district’s policy.
“We should find that balance for what we can give them as a safe tool here in the district to learn to get comfortable with AI in all its different iterations beyond just the chatbots and the generative AIs"
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March 10, 1:57 PM
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Artificial intelligence is causing college instructors to move more meaningful examinations back to the classroom, and connect the dots with students on why learning matters.
"In addition to showing students why learning matters, the professors said it is essential to teach students how to use AI tools to augment their learning, just as they will be expected to use AI tools to augment their work upon graduation."
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March 9, 5:40 PM
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Students will use AI. Here’s what it takes to ensure it strengthens their thinking instead of replacing it.
"[I]f we integrate AI thoughtfully — anchored in pedagogy, aligned with course content and designed to promote cognitive effort — we can help students build the skills that will matter most in an AI-integrated world: critical thinking, problem-solving and the ability to verify and challenge AI itself."
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March 9, 5:32 PM
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Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, and the scientists making these models.
"LLMs perpetuate human errors like bias, and they make other human-like errors because they don’t have the intuitive scaffolding that helps us learn not to make those mistakes."
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March 9, 5:28 PM
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"In an era where generative AI can craft a convincing essay on the French Revolution or a lab report on osmosis in seconds, educators are facing an “authenticity crisis.” We’ve all felt it: that nagging doubt when a student’s written voice doesn’t quite match their classroom persona."
"The VIVA Framework is a structured, two-minute “micro-assessment” designed to confirm that the student who submitted the work is the same student who understands the work."
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March 6, 2:49 PM
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"Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) is framed in fear. White-collar professionals are increasingly anxious about AI replacing cognitive work once thought untouchable, a concern captured in The Atlantic’s piece on the worst-case future for white-collar workers. Blue-collar workers have their own version of this fear as employers test automation that shows up in the real world as robots and drones doing physical jobs once reserved for people, including delivery and warehouse work, like Amazon’s reported testing of humanoid delivery robots.
The anxiety is real. But what if we are asking the wrong question?"
"Instead of asking how we preserve jobs as they exist today, what if we ask whether working less might actually be progress?"
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March 6, 2:46 PM
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"We are approaching the integration of artificial intelligence into our universities in a piecemeal rather than a comprehensive fashion."
"To date, we have been limited to a kind of Whac-A-Mole approach to introducing AI into higher education."
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March 6, 2:38 PM
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"Last Tuesday, I asked Claude to prepare a competitive analysis. Not in a chat window. Not through a prompt. I opened Cowork, pointed it to a folder on my desktop, and said what I needed. It read my files. It cross-referenced data from Slack through a connector. It pulled calendar context. It produced a document — formatted, structured, sourced — and saved it to my working folder. I didn’t open a single application. I didn’t navigate a single menu. I didn’t click through a single interface."
"Cowork reads files on your desktop, modifies documents, creates deliverables, and operates within your working folder — asking for confirmation before significant actions, working autonomously within defined boundaries."
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March 5, 3:13 PM
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"Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in education conversations. Some teachers are experimenting with it. Others are cautious. Many are simply unsure where it belongs or whether it belongs at all."
"Rather than positioning AI as a solution or a threat, educators might consider how, and whether, it aligns with their instructional goals, assessment practices, and professional values."
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Today, 1:38 PM
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The country needs an AI policy response that focuses on retooling and continued human development, or else we risk losing the very skills the tech is meant to complement.
"Much of the conversation about AI and work has centered on displacement—which jobs will vanish, which will emerge. A quieter crisis is unfolding alongside it: deskilling. Workers are at risk of losing the very skills that make them employable"
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Today, 1:31 PM
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Is there a framework for AI integration in learning design to enhance creativity, accessibility, and effectiveness in your curriculum?
"We have frameworks for teaching with AI, frameworks for teaching about AI, and frameworks for learning using AI. We don't have a systematic approach for using AI in the course development process itself."
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Today, 1:25 PM
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Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots.
"Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact with one another autonomously"
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March 10, 2:09 PM
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First, it was no phones in schools. Now, amid the debate around edtech, schools are looking to go screen free.
"Some legislators and advocates are pushing to roll back the reliance on devices, particularly at a younger level when children are more susceptible to distractions."
Will school forbid screens like they banned smartphones? Some movements think so.
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March 10, 1:59 PM
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Classroom Technology Bans: How Better Learning Design Will Improve Classrooms, Not Removing Devices
"Making technology the scapegoat for declining educational outcomes distracts from the real issue and risks removing one of the most powerful tools students have to explore ideas, create knowledge, and pursue their goals."
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March 10, 1:53 PM
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When you look closely at the science of learning (constructivism, cognitive psychology, and social learning theory) you realize something that most effective learning experiences were already AI-resistant.
"AI-resistant learning isn’t just a reaction to ChatGPT or generative AI.
It’s actually rooted in decades of research about how people learn best."
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March 9, 5:37 PM
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"The tension between personalized learning demands and standardized evaluation mechanisms presents a persistent challenge in contemporary education. This study proposes a comprehensive personalized education assessment framework driven by generative artificial intelligence technologies. The framework adopts a five-layer hierarchical architecture integrating data collection, processing, intelligent analysis, assessment generation, and feedback optimization components."
"Experimental participants exhibited significantly higher learning gains (Cohen’s d = 0.56), with particularly pronounced effects among initially lower-performing students. The framework also enhanced learner engagement and satisfaction compared to conventional assessment approaches. These findings suggest that generative AI can effectively operationalize personalized assessment at scale while maintaining pedagogical quality and transparency."
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March 9, 5:29 PM
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Gen Z teachers grew up in an era of unbridled tech. It shapes how they approach classroom technology.
"Gen Z teachers are the first cohort of classroom educators that entered adolescence just as smartphones became ubiquitous. They grew up with much of their social lives online, shifting in their consumption habits from YouTube to Snapchat to TikTok as platforms rose and fell."
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March 6, 2:55 PM
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"Dealing with students who plagiarize now seems like a piece of cake compared to ones who use AI to write their papers. I could usually deter students from plagiarizing by demonstrating how easy it is for teachers to find it...However, the rise of AI has completely changed that approach."
"Discouraging students from using AI involves a two-prong approach. First, they should see that it won’t help them pass the course. And second, they must realize they are missing opportunities for the teacher to help them actually improve their writing."
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March 6, 2:47 PM
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For any student finding their footing in a completely new environment, technology should steady the path--not widen the digital experience gap
"When technology creates barriers, it’s harder for students to succeed–and that technology may undermine an institution’s own mission."
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March 6, 2:43 PM
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"Publicly accessible generative artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to transform how learners construct knowledge and the skills needed for professional success across industries...[T]his article explores learning through dialogue, supporting knowledge construction, leveraging AI tools, and implications for instructional designers and educators."
"In a world where access to information is practically endless, the mark of an expert educator will be the ability and the humility to embrace AI to 1) center learners throughout a learning experience; 2) facilitate knowledge construction with and among AI, learners, and other stakeholders; 3) support learners in applying what they know and identifying what they do not know; and 4) nurture critical thinking and problem-solving skills across all modalities."
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March 5, 3:15 PM
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"Every quarter, business leaders ask the same questions: where is demand shifting? Which customers are stalling? Where is margin under pressure? Teams conduct the analysis, insights surface briefly in decks and dashboards and then they recede. The next quarter, the process of analyzing business tailwinds and headwinds resets. The context and nuance from quarters past has dissipated, and the query is asked and answered anew."
"If the first AI era was about accelerating answers, the next one should be about mining insights at scale."
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March 5, 3:11 PM
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Learning in the AI age: Education 5.0 Patrick Blessinger Learning is for human flourishing, but only if we can see flourishing as something more than economic productivity, something more than employability, something more than credentials, though these things are very important.
"[K]nowledge is now universally abundant and available to everyone, but it is fragmented, contested, and increasingly filtered through algorithms.
The aim of learning today should be to move from survival to meaning, from authority to participation, from control to co-creation, from power to rights, and from fragmentation to coherence."
"[B]ehind the rapid adoption of digital solutions lie uncomfortable questions. Are teachers being forced to become less like educators and more like tech operators? What does it then mean to be a teacher and to teach?"