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Generative AI use by students took schools by storm, and that deluge only began a few years ago.
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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.
Katlego Mofokeng's curator insight,
May 19, 2025 3:46 PM
Using technology in education proves affective in helping students/ learners accelerate their learning progress.
Elena Galeote's comment,
December 29, 2025 6:51 AM
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.
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As school districts embrace artificial intelligence to improve IT systems, a well-considered strategy can ensure a seamless transition.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to transform K–12 operations, increase efficiency and improve responsiveness. But AI and ML adoption in education is not without its challenges. Here are three obstacles that K–12 districts need to overcome."
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The age of AI and Robots is here, you may be worried that robots will take your jobs. There are some jobs that have a low risk of being taken over by AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The following 65 occupations were all determined to have a job automation risk probability of 0.0% based on the abilities, knowledge, skills, and activities that are required to perform the job well."
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States laid the groundwork for cellphone bans in the classroom — and now new federal efforts look to take that one step further.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Edtech proponents defend the value of instructional tools as no-phones policies gain momentum in schools — and in Congress."
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Today's students are future innovators in a landscape where powerful new tools of creation--AI--are sitting right in front of them.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI is about to pull the labor market in two directions at once: inward, as firms need fewer employees; and outward, as more individuals gain the tools to act like firms."
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Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Since AI use is difficult to verify technically, the solution lies in building workplace cultures where disclosure is normalized, expected, and seen as professional sophistication rather than weakness."
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From
uxdesign
"How chatbot-first thinking makes products harder for users"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This article focuses on one of the widespread misconceptions that could send the future of UX along a very wrong trajectory. I call it chatbot-first thinking: the assumption that conversational interfaces can — or should — replace most existing UI patterns completely."
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"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"
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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."
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"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.
Maika's curator insight,
January 28, 2:39 AM
Hoy en día, la educación se dirige y se transforma hacia las nuevas tecnologías, pero está claro que necesitamos aprender antes de usar; ya que, un mal uso, nos hace retroceder. Es muy importante saber usarlas y sobre todo, como docentes, saber transmitir un conocimiento sano y respetuoso de las nuevas tecnologías. Por ello, desde mi punto de vista, estamos ante un avance espectacular en nuestras vidas, pero ante algo peligroso que se debe emprender con mucho cuidado.
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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."
Javier Fernández de Córdoba's curator insight,
January 27, 1:32 PM
Gran articulo que expone la enseñanza dual, presencial y online, ofreciendo unas serie de estrategias practicas que ayuden a los estudiantes a aprender con confianza en ambos espacios.
Resulta de gran utilidad para los docentes gracias a las descripciones de las estrategias aplicables al aula, como son: los objetivos de aprendizaje en acción, el aprendizaje activo, la comunicación, presencia y retroalimentación, l diseño y la estructura de los proyectos, la evaluación y la función del docente como guía y diseñador.
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"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."
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From
uxdesign
"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."
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AI's value depends on the educators and leaders who wield it with intention and a commitment to equity, fairness, responsibility, and balance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI amplifies educators rather than replacing them: In K–12 settings, AI is most effective when used to reduce administrative burden, support better decision-making, and free educators to focus more time on students and relationships."
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Understanding the ethics and legal implications around the use of AI in schools is becoming increasingly critical for school leaders.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"To navigate these challenges, the U.S. Department of Education and legal experts advocate for a “human in the loop" approach."
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Generative AI use by students took schools by storm, and that deluge only began a few years ago.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
Sal Khan: "[W]e’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen, and the way we’re going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor."
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As higher education reaches a point of transformation, AI's insights offer a different look at what path learning could take.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Will colleges and universities remain sites of human development, or become credentialing platforms optimized for efficiency alone?"
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Daphne Koller explains the hard truths of AI adoption in this week's Big Think Class.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[M]aking a tool available is not the same as intentionally leveraging it to transform your organization."
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"Focusing on polish and production speed over pedagogy creates a fundamental problem across the industry: Most e-learning authoring tools emphasize digital interactions and visual templates, while providing minimal guidance on pedagogical principles"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"E-learning authoring tools have an opportunity to differentiate themselves from AI-powered website builders. Rapid e-learning authoring tools could explore how to use AI integrations in a way that makes learning principles accessible to users who may not have expert insight into them."
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From
uxdesign
"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."
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"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."
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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."
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The current landscape of AI use in K-12 schools is highly varied because there’s little specific policy guidance from the state and federal levels.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[A]s schools seek to navigate into the age of generative AI, there’s a challenge: Schools are operating in a policy vacuum."
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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."
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From
uxdesign
"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."
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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."
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Sal Khan: "[W]e’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen, and the way we’re going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor."