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This whole AI thing is simpler than you think

"The failure of AI to increase productivity isn’t just cherry-picked anecdote or idle speculation. According to Microsoft’s own study, only 25% of AI initiatives achieved expected returns over the past three years. Computer scientist Gary Marcus has been writing about the hype and misplaced hope around large language models (LLMs) for just as long. But the problem here is not that AI can’t do great stuff; it’s that organizations are not yet thinking in a human-first way about technology."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"It’s the humans who bring the complexity, culture, and chaos."

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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

Adopting a GenAI textbook for an upcoming semester?

We invite you to request an inspection copy and explore how this resource can support your students in navigating AI with skill, ethics, and informed judgment.

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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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Where Does AI Meaningfully Fit Into Curriculum And Assessment?

Where Does AI Meaningfully Fit Into Curriculum And Assessment? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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March 4, 12:27 PM
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With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care?

With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Why are students so comfortable using AI for emotional support?
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"Navigating budget shortfalls and limited mental health staff, Interlachen Jr.-Sr. High School, where Phillips works, is using an AI platform to vet students’ mental health needs."

Nik Peachey's curator insight, Today, 6:00 AM

Interesting article about the use of AI to support teens’ mental health - With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2026-03-03-with-teens-comfortable-confiding-in-ai-should-schools-embrace-it-for-mental-health-care

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Since E-rate expansion cuts, schools make difficult choices on hotspots

"After the FCC pulled back coverage for school bus Wi-Fi and hotspots, K-12 leaders are scrambling to connect students without home internet."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[L]ow-income urban school districts are also feeling the brunt of the E-rate expansion reversal — from both an infrastructure and affordability perspective."

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March 4, 12:15 PM
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AI, computer science and the shifting reality of tech employment

"For years, computer science was marketed as one of the safest degrees in higher education. Strong demand, high wages and a seemingly endless need for technical talent made CS feel like a guaranteed return on investment. Today, that certainty is being questioned."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Entry-level hiring is more competitive than it was just a few years ago, and routine technical tasks are increasingly supported by automation and AI-enabled tools."

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March 4, 12:10 PM
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States weigh limits, outright bans on ed tech in schools

"Momentum appears to be growing against any screen time in schools as states like Tennessee and Kansas propose prohibiting ed tech for grades K-5."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"At least five states are considering legislation this year to limit or ban ed tech to some extent in classrooms — moving beyond widespread prohibitions on students’ personal devices to also include those issued by districts during the school day."

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What AI needs to accelerate the way humans innovate

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Technological progress occurs when different forms of expertise are combined."

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March 3, 10:11 AM
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Teens admit their true feelings about AI chatbots

Teens admit their true feelings about AI chatbots | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Teens are turning to AI chatbots for homework help, research, entertainment, and emotional support.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future

The Role of Faculty in the University of the Future | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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If AI Is Guiding Career Decisions, It Needs Better Data

If AI Is Guiding Career Decisions, It Needs Better Data | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
CareerNet builds essential infrastructure for career navigation, using shared data and benchmarks to guarantee users high-quality guidance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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The Hidden Cost Of Moving Fast With AI

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI risk debt: risk that compounds over time because governance assumptions fail to evolve at the same speed as technology."

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AI Learning Architecture: L&D Must Reshape Itself

AI Learning Architecture: L&D Must Reshape Itself | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learning leaders must shift from AI tool training to designing AI learning architecture with augmentation pathways and embedded governance.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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4 in 5 Students Say AI Improved Their Academic Performance—But Only 20% of Universities Have a Formal AI Policy

"New Coursera report shows half of U.S. higher education institutions are unprepared to manage AI

  • 78% of U.S. students and educators say AI is having a positive impact on higher education
  • 50% believe the U.S. higher education system is 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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"78% of educators and students feel positive about AI’s impact on higher education"

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What Will Happen When AI Stops Answering And Starts Providing Insights

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"If the first AI era was about accelerating answers, the next one should be about mining insights at scale."

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Learning in the AI age: Education 5.0

Learning in the AI age: Education 5.0 | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[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."

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March 4, 12:23 PM
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Why (and How) Teachers Should Use Generative AI in the Classroom

Why (and How) Teachers Should Use Generative AI in the Classroom | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn why and how teachers can use generative AI to streamline lesson planning, personalize explanations, and automate retrieval practice—without losing instructional control.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"To guide educators on how to get the most out of generative AI...we picked three important aspects of instructional practice: lesson planning, providing explanations, and retrieval practice."

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‘First thing I’ve written in 3 years’: Students’ AI habits prompt teacher training, lesson design

"Two educators who use artificial intelligence in their classroom combine prompt engineering, in-class assignments and guardrails."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Successfully infusing artificial intelligence into the classroom means boosting students’ AI literacy without using the tech to offload their thinking. But that requires teachers first getting up to speed on AI"

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March 4, 12:13 PM
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Two New Reports Urge ‘Human-Centered’ School AI Adoption

Two New Reports Urge ‘Human-Centered’ School AI Adoption | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Results of two gatherings make case for visionary yet balanced approaches to AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Retreating from AI, the authors find, creates 'the worst of both worlds' — students who can neither think independently nor use AI effectively."

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March 3, 10:18 AM
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College students and professors are making their own AI rules

College students and professors are making their own AI rules | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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I tested 200 edtech tools. These are the ones worth using

"From AI study assistants to presentation builders, these free tools can help teachers, students, and parents work smarter."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Video: 3 AI Fears in Higher Education

Video: 3 AI Fears in Higher Education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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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Google, ISTE+ASCD Offer AI Training to All Teachers

Google, ISTE+ASCD Offer AI Training to All Teachers | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Can We Regulate AI Without Stalling Innovation? History Says Yes

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Why Not Ask Why: Neuroscientist Urges Educators to Reconsider Technology’s Reach

Why Not Ask Why: Neuroscientist Urges Educators to Reconsider Technology’s Reach | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Education needs an analog reboot, says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in his new book, “The Digital Delusion,” which lays out how technology ha
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“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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The Right AI Can Help Students With Assigned Readings, Suggests New Research

The Right AI Can Help Students With Assigned Readings, Suggests New Research | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace

Rethinking AI’s future in an augmented workplace | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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…
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Markets oscillate between skepticism and the fear of missing out, while the technology itself evolves quickly"

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