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Seven practical ways to improve student engagement online

Seven practical ways to improve student engagement online | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Teaching via a screen makes it harder to read student understanding and sustain attention. These practical strategies show how educators can keep online students invested
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"[W]ith a multitude of digital distractions vying for students’ attention, online teaching requires intentional pedagogical adjustments."

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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.

This text is ideal for:

  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
  • Curriculum & Instruction courses
  • Educational Technology programs
  • Higher education faculty development
  • School technology coordinators and talent development professionals

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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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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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February 26, 12:43 PM
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"As machines become more capable of doing the labor of research and learning, what happens to higher education? What purpose does the university serve?"

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February 26, 12:38 PM
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95% of students and educators are using AI on campus — but only a quarter of educators worldwide feel prepared to use it effectively

95% of students and educators are using AI on campus — but only a quarter of educators worldwide feel prepared to use it effectively | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Capturing responses to a survey of over 4,200 university faculty and college students in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico, the report found that nearly all students and educators are now using AI to facilitate personalized learning, provide real-time feedback, and increase productivity and efficiency."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]hough broadly positive about AI’s role in higher education, faculty express concerns about regulation, governance, and their own preparedness."

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February 25, 11:27 AM
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What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work

What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
How a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned-AI ethicist used assessment to personalize instruction before AI-powered edtech existed.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"With competing priorities and dwindling resources, teachers are using generative AI to assist with feedback. What happens when we rely on AI to assess student learning and grade their work?"

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February 25, 11:21 AM
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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking to a chatbot in a back-and-forth conversation. But over the past few months, it has become practical to use AI as an agent: you can assign them to a task and they do them, using tools as appropriate. Because of this change, you have to consider three things when deciding what AI to use: Models, Apps, and Harnesses."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he question “which AI should I use?” has gotten harder to answer, because the answer now depends on what you’re trying to do with it."

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February 25, 11:16 AM
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AI writes the code and humans still write the rules

"A quarter of all YC startups now ship code that’s 95% AI-written. And somewhere in Silicon Valley, a 22-year-old with no CS degree just launched an app used by 40,000 people — without writing a single line. Here’s the full, unfiltered story of who’s building the future, what’s working, what’s failing, and what it all means."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“A year ago, they would have built their product from scratch.
But now 95% of it is built by an AI. You don’t need a team of 50
engineers anymore."

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February 25, 11:11 AM
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How do students regulate their learning with a genAI chatbot? 

How do students regulate their learning with a genAI chatbot?  | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Self-regulated learning (SRL) is essential for effective learning, yet students often struggle to regulate in digital environments, including suboptimal learning tool use. The rapid integration of generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) into learning settings raises questions about their role in supporting or hindering SRL."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Chatbot interaction frequencies correlated positively with high cognitive activities; durations of chatbot use and high cognition negatively correlated with reading time."

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February 23, 1:07 PM
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Why District Leaders Are Rethinking Education Research and Policy

Why District Leaders Are Rethinking Education Research and Policy | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Today, district leaders are being asked to make irreversible budget decisions with fewer dollars and less margin for error than ever before. Yet many districts are making those decisions with limited evidence of what actually works in their classrooms — not because leaders lack interest in data, but because few systems are designed to support real-time learning at the district level."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Traditional funding structures often require districts to commit to specific programs upfront, leaving little room for the iterative testing that defines effective research and development. As a result, districts are often forced to choose certainty over learning — even when that certainty is more assumed than proven."

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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"

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"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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February 26, 12:48 PM
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While Others 'Vibecode,' the Labor Department Keeps it Real on AI

While Others 'Vibecode,' the Labor Department Keeps it Real on AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A new federal AI framework is about practical workforce guidance rather than existential hand-wringing.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The framework acknowledges something most AI guidance skips: not everyone is ready for AI literacy because not everyone has basic digital literacy."

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February 26, 12:41 PM
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Your users aren’t human anymore; start building for agents today

"For decades, a single question has dominated startup boardrooms and venture capitalist pitch meetings: “What’s your DAU/WAU/MAU?” The trinity of Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Active Users has been the number 1 undisputed set of metrics. It has been widely considered the ultimate proxy for engagement and a key indicator of early signs of product-market fit for software companies."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In the new paradigm of work, humans will interact with their AI agents, and those agents will, in turn, interact with our software on our behalf."

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February 26, 12:36 PM
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‘Your bot of choice is not a filing cabinet’

‘Your bot of choice is not a filing cabinet’ | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
With GenAI taking a larger role in research and education, Sorin Krammer looks at the data management habits academics can no longer ignore
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Most research institutions have explicit data management policies, many of which have been recently updated to address AI tools usage as well. Typically, these policies require that primary research materials be stored on institutional or otherwise secure and recoverable systems. Sensitive research or academic records should never be deposited on third-party, unvetted platforms."

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February 25, 11:24 AM
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From Time-Saver to Teaching Transformer: Harnessing AI's Pedagogical Power

From Time-Saver to Teaching Transformer: Harnessing AI's Pedagogical Power | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn how faculty can use AI in teaching to save time, improve feedback, and strengthen pedagogy while keeping human connection at the center of learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Used as a draftsperson—not a decision-maker—AI doesn’t replace your judgment; it depends on it. Your expertise is what transforms its raw output into meaningful teaching."

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February 25, 11:19 AM
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Here are 3 fundamentals for responsible AI chatbot use

Here are 3 fundamentals for responsible AI chatbot use | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
College administrators who are working smarter with AI chatbots share ideas for keeping data safe and boosting connections with staff.
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"[U]sers should treat every prompt like a public record"

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February 25, 11:14 AM
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"OPINION Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.

Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy information. Technically, it is not a "bug" but a structural byproduct of greedy decoding and RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback)."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses."

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February 23, 1:09 PM
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Student accused of AI plagiarism wins lawsuit against Adelphi University

Student accused of AI plagiarism wins lawsuit against Adelphi University | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
After being accused of cheating, a student sued his university and won. He denied ever having cheating on his essay.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The ruling last month, reported by NewsDay, found the claims that Orion Newby had used AI to commit plagiarism were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason.'”

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February 23, 1:03 PM
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Most students must use AI for classwork, but universities are slow to offer AI courses

Most students must use AI for classwork, but universities are slow to offer AI courses | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Research uncovers a critical gap in preparing college students for real-world careers that will be largely AI enabled.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[W]while roughly half of students expect to rely on AI in their future careers, and believe AI proficiency may matter more than a college degree, only 31 percent are aware of AI courses offered by their institutions, and fewer than 20 percent have taken them."