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onto Educational Technology News January 22, 1:52 PM
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GenAI is reshaping research, from accelerating discovery to easing administrative burdens. Discover practical guidance on how researchers can use these tech tools effectively and ethically
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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.”
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February 27, 12:06 PM
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"Why the future of design belongs to creative thinkers and problem solvers"
"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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"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."
"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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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
"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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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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February 27, 12:10 PM
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"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."
"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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"Via essays, poems, videos, artwork and graphics, 35 students across the globe reflect on how this technology is affecting teenagers."
"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 poses cybersecurity risks and potential data breaches for schools
"[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 Jon Bergmann wants better AI outside of the classroom and less AI during class time.
"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."
"GenAI can quickly carry out tasks that would take individual researchers many hours, days or even weeks, significantly easing administrative loads and freeing up valuable time for deeper thinking. But for all of that to happen, researchers need to know how and when to use appropriate GenAI tools to support their scholarly work, and how to ensure these powerful machines do not compromise academic integrity and research quality."