"We’re consuming more content than ever, and remembering less of it. Here’s what the research says about our shrinking focus — and what’s fuelling the problem."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Welcome to the era of infinite content and finite attention, where our brains are working overtime just to keep up with the deluge."
The latest news related to the meaningful and effective implementation of educational technology and e-learning in K-12, higher education, corporate and government sectors.
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
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
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.
Desde mi punto de vista, el Master of Education in Education Technology responde de manera acertada a las necesidades actuales del ámbito educativo, donde la integración pedagógica de la tecnología es cada vez más importante. El enfoque basado en proyectos potencia un aprendizaje significativo, ya que permite a los maestros diseñar y aplicar recursos digitales directamente en sus contextos escolares. Además, el formato online y acelerado facilita la actualización profesional continua, lo que considero clave para mejorar la práctica docente y promover una educación más creativa y eficaz.
"How do 5,000‑year‑old clay tablets from Iraq, the rise of workplace computers and the 26th president of the United States all connect to AI and the future of work?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As AI tools become more intuitive and powerful, the real challenge lies not in the technology itself, but in how we integrate them into human‑machine workflows and apply them to problems worth solving"
Language professors are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to generate materials, personalize learning, give students more varied opportunities to practice — and keep up with them.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While the tools often take an individualized approach to language training, instructors say they can be helpful in a classroom setting if done right, with tailored audio examples, class activities and student feedback filling some gaps in traditional methods."
"Education will split, not converge. Credentials will weaken before curricula change. Teachers will shift from explaining to coaching—whether they like it or not. Technology will force value choices, and schools will pick sides. Orality and judgment will become the new proof of learning. The gap between where education is heading and where it should head is, in many ways, the whole problem."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
The core challenge is closing the gap between the current direction of education and where it needs to go, which will require leadership courage, teacher adaptation, and open dialogue with parents and students.
Explore practical strategies for teaching online and in-person in higher education, with a focus on student engagement, instructor presence, and effective pedagogy across modalities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Modality shouldn’t distract us from sound pedagogy. Whether synchronous or asynchronous, face-to-face or online, our work is grounded in backward design, student-centered approaches, and ongoing assessment."
"AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Work in the future will be a partnership between people, agents, and robots—all powered by AI."
"We don’t talk enough about how we feel about creating in the age of AI. I feel a lot, as a writer by profession and heart. I’ve gone through the seven stages of grief with AI a couple of times.
Shock. It can write better than many.
Denial. It’s not going to affect me.
Anger. When my first clients started using it instead of paying me to write.
Guilt. When I started using it myself."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI has made me a greater writer...Not because it makes my work faster or easier. And not because it suggests different terms or corrects my punctuation. But because it has forced me to create with more intention than ever before."
How AI can help you separate “making sense” from design, build a clear story arc, and create a visual narrative that earns attention and trust
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"A human-centred approach to AI means retaining full control over the narrative. Sometimes you may choose to lean heavily on AI support. At other times, you may choose to use none. Most of the time, you will sit somewhere in between, but it will be your choice."
"Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
The chatbot, code named Campos, will be embedded deeply into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems and will replace the current Siri interface, the report said, citing people familiar with the plan."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The chatbot capabilities will come later in the year and Campos, which will have both voice- and typing-based modes, will be the primary new addition to Apple's upcoming operating systems"
When I launched this blog in Spring 2023, I called it "Education Disrupted" because AI was already beginning to reshape education—and I knew the disruptions would eventually be seismic.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"My point here isn't to dwell on the disruption AI has caused to education, but to argue that education should be experiencing an even greater disruption—one driven not by technology but by educators themselves."
"AI has made work faster almost everywhere. But, are many organisations confusing sheer speed for actual organisational intelligence?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The adoption of AI in organisations may be accelerating work itself, but without reliably making it better. It may even be causing a drift into the trap of conflating outputs with outcomes?"
"We’re consuming more content than ever, and remembering less of it. Here’s what the research says about our shrinking focus — and what’s fuelling the problem."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Welcome to the era of infinite content and finite attention, where our brains are working overtime just to keep up with the deluge."
"Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"LLMs are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity level, above which they will deliver incorrect responses."
What Students Will Actually Struggle With in an AI World—And Why Education Is Looking the Wrong Way
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Schools are optimizing for an economy that’s disappearing, preparing students for roles that won’t exist, measuring skills that machines will outperform. They’re asking the wrong questions entirely."
A New York magazine article titled “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College” made the rounds in mid-2025. I think about it often, and especially when I get targeted ads that are basically variations on “if you use our AI tool, you’ll be able to cheat without getting caught.” Suffice it to say it’s dispiriting. […]
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Used wisely, it multiplies productivity. Used foolishly, it multiplies folly. Debates about academic integrity and artificial intelligence force us to really reckon with who we are and what we’re doing."
"What it really takes to build a product inside ChatGPT while the ecosystem is still forming (and without an engineering team)"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"For non-technical builders — designers, product thinkers, operators — the promise of access exists alongside real uncertainty about control, responsibility, and realism."
When all students are required to use generative AI for every assignment, their practice can be more rigorous, transparent and deeply reflective. Here, Tiatemsu Longkumer explains a rubric
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The temptation is to treat AI as a threat to integrity. I think that is a mistake. If we continue to prize surface-level polish, we incentivise students to outsource intellectual labour to machines. A better alternative is to design assessments that make thinking visible. That means embracing AI as a classroom collaborator and shifting the emphasis from what was written to how and why it was written."
More students are enrolling in majors centered around artificial intelligence as universities create more programs designed around generative AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI programs are a hot trend in universities and colleges, as they seek to capitalize on the popularity of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude."
This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since the debut of ChatGPT and with the public’s growing familiarity with generative artificial intelligence (AI), the education community has been debating its promises and perils. Rather than wait for a decade to conduct a postmortem on the failures and opportunities of AI, the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education embarked on a yearlong global study—a premortem—to understand the potential negative risks that generative AI poses to students, and what we can do now to prevent these risks, while maximizing the potential benefits of AI."
"[T]he companies shaping our technological future are planning for a world where machine intelligence surpasses collective human expertise within a decade—possibly within three years. And education? We’re still arguing about whether students should be allowed to use ChatGPT on their homework."
"It’s not about adding AI, it’s about solving problems better than before."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"'How can we add AI?' is trend-chasing. It puts technology before purpose, and often leads to bloated features no one asked for, wasted development time, money, and opportunity cost of building something desired and innovative instead."
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
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"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."
The power of any data dashboard isn't in the dashboard itself--it's in the conversations that happen around it. Data literacy is critical.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Data literacy means asking better questions and approaching data with curiosity. It requires recognizing that the answers we get are entirely driven by the questions we ask."
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"Welcome to the era of infinite content and finite attention, where our brains are working overtime just to keep up with the deluge."