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An assessment flowchart can help guide educators through the delicate balance of whether or not to allow GenAI in their assignment design. Here’s how it works
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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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When educators design learning intentionally, AI becomes another tool students learn to use
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Responsible use of AI in schools does not begin with tools. It begins with clarity."
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"Assessment is fast becoming a central focus in the higher education debate as we move into an era of generative AI, but too often institutions are responding through compliance and risk-management actions rather than fundamental pedagogical reform. Tightened regulations, expanded scrutiny and mechanistic controls may reassure quality assurance systems, but they run the risk of diluting genuine transformation and placing unsustainable pressure on staff and students alike."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If reform is driven through compliance, we will miss opportunities to align assessments with the learning needs of a graduate entering the gen-AI era."
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evrimagaci
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a buzzword in the world of technology; it’s rapidly becoming a core part of how American universities and schools educate, support, and prepare students for the future. In early 2026, three major developments in the U.S. education landscape have highlighted a growing trend: institutions are moving swiftly to define, regulate, and expand the role of AI in both higher education and K-12 classrooms."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"While universities are racing to expand and refine their AI offerings, K-12 education is also grappling with how best to integrate these powerful tools."
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"Artificial Intelligence has entered the world of education like an explosion, leaving us reeling in its wake. Everyone has questions: how could AI reshape education? What risks does it create? These questions are natural, coming as they do from our common experiences. But what if they’re the wrong questions to ask? What if we should be questioning what we’re doing in education at all?"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[F]ailing good answers to any of our questions, we just keep moving on, doing what we’ve always done. We need better questions than we have been asking to this point."
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"AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time."
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Leading thinkers in the field are seeking a more nuanced understanding of how best to use AI to shape the future of education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Educators are starting to realize that AI isn’t going away anytime soon – and that it’s better to teach their students how to use it, rather than leave them to their own devices."
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When I make presentations about AI, I am most often asked, “What can I do now to ensure that AI doesn’t take my job?” And, that’s a challenge to answer. We do not know just how, and how quickly, AI will roll out. However, a Gallup Poll released last week showed nearly one-quarter of American workers use AI at least a few times each week. We know that Agentic AI is different from Generative AI. Generative AI is the transactional, commonly chatbot mounted, question and answer form that we saw first in ChatGPT by OpenAI a couple of years ago. That remains a powerful tool.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Instead of being a ‘task machine,’ you should aim to be an ‘operator’ who uses AI as leverage to manage systems and drive real-world business goals"
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uxdesign
"You likely know, or at the very least know of, a designer who just gets it. I’m talking about the designer who solves complex problems with elegant, user-centred, buildable solutions without breaking a sweat. Or maybe that designer who turns everything they touch into something genuinely beautiful. Or even the one who gets up on a stage and says what we’re all thinking more clearly and eloquently than we can. Maybe all three. Love or irrationally hate them, there they are, making the things that you struggle with daily look easy. You look skyward and wonder, 'what is it they have that I don’t?'”
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In a world where anyone can make anything– what matters is your ability to choose and curate what you make.”
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UTRGV offers a top-ranked, affordable online Master’s in Educational Technology. This accelerated program prepares students for high-demand roles like instructional design and AI curriculum specialist. Graduates gain a competitive advantage across diverse industries. Learn more here: http://utrgv.edu/edtech
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
The EdTech, E-Learning, and AI industries are booming! Get future ready by earning a master's degree in Educational Technology to get ready to design the future of learning.
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"Generative AI (GenAI) has made explicit knowledge nearly free. The research, the synthesis, the frameworks—all commoditized. An LLM can produce a cloud migration strategy, draft a technical architecture document or summarize the latest thinking on microservices in seconds. At the same time, technology leadership has never felt harder. What remains scarce is wisdom—the kind forged through implementation, failure and recovery."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When leaders manage dashboards rather than systems, entropy accumulates in the structural seams of the software, invisible to anyone who cannot read the code. This raises the question: how do leaders maintain technical depth whilst scaling their responsibilities?"
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"The implications of AI for data governance and security don’t often grab the headlines, but the work of incorporating this technology into institutional culture is vital, complex, and illuminating."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Bringing AI into real, regulated institutional data environments is not just a technology project; it’s a test of our entire data governance and security philosophy."
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"When researchers ask students to test educational technology products, a consistent pattern emerges: Tools that impress adults in demos often fall flat with the students who actually use them."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"When you center student voice, you learn things about an edtech tool that adults simply can't see."
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As more legislation sweeps the nation limiting children’s phone usage in schools, a new report shows not all laws are created equal.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Only two states in the nation received “A” marks, with most states lacking explicit rules"
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Gain practical HyFlex teaching strategies that support in-person and remote students through accessible course design, active learning, and inclusive practices.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"HyFlex may never be seamless, but small, consistent choices made it far more equitable and rewarding. Designing with accessibility in mind benefited every student, not just those with specific needs."
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Between coursework, jobs, family responsibilities, and extracurriculars, many students struggle to keep up with the required reading and course-related review and studying. New artificial intelligence tools are beginning to ease that challenge.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"One bot, known as the 'syllabot,' reduces the time faculty spend answering common syllabus-related questions about course policies, grading, and course expectations."
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uxdesign
"AI assistants don’t have to communicate in paragraphs. They can communicate through interfaces."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"AI assistants and agents are only going to keep increasing. The question isn’t whether your product will have one, it’s whether the experience will be differentiated or commoditized."
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An assessment flowchart can help guide educators through the delicate balance of whether or not to allow GenAI in their assignment design. Here’s how it works
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[T]he AI Assessment Flowchart: a practical, self-evaluation tool that helps educators evaluate the validity of their individual assignments. Rather than prescribing a single 'correct' method, the flowchart guides educators through a series of reflective questions and decision points, helping them consider different aspects of their individual assignment design."
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Explore how frontier AI—reasoning models, agentic systems, and multimodal tools—can support deeper learning and instruction for schools.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Increased autonomy also introduces new risks. Each additional decision point creates opportunities for error: choosing the wrong tool, misinterpreting an instruction, or failing to complete a chain of actions. These failures can undermine trust or misalign support with learning goals."
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Under-resourced schools are less likely to support teachers in implementing AI technology to best serve learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"How teachers end up using, or not using, AI to support their teaching – and their students’ learning – may be the most crucial determinant of whether AI’s use in schools narrows or widens existing equity gaps."
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From
uxdesign
"Throughout my career in software testing, I’ve noticed dilemmas that affect the overall team’s dynamics and product outcomes. Believe it or not, these are the patterns that are quite common for every development team I worked with. These very patterns easily block the team’s goal, e.g. to develop an amazing cutting-edge product that could help humanity... As a result, this amazing product exists only in the requirements or in the dreams of the product owner. The team builds something else instead."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Before a team starts building a quality assurance system for a product, it is smart to brainstorm on how quality assurance should function. It is important to define how the quality will be measured"
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When a thirteen-year-old boy swims four kilometres through open ocean to save his family, it raises an educational question: what exactly do our assessments believe they are measuring?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Education faces a choice. Systems can continue to equate task compliance with capacity in the world, or they can be redesigned around a richer understanding of human development."
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"Most AI search systems do not fail in obvious ways. There are no outages, error rate spikes or alerts that warn that something went wrong. Instead, relevance quietly erodes. Users initially adapt by reformulating queries and scrolling further, but eventually some abandon search altogether. By the time leadership starts seeing a measurable business impact, the system might have been underperforming for months."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"This silent degradation is one of the most underestimated risks in AI search, often a result of the team’s definition of success."
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"Colleges and universities have begun formalizing the chief AI officer role as they respond to the growing impact of generative artificial intelligence on teaching, research, and operations. Reflections from early incumbents point to five lessons about how AI leadership in higher education is taking shape."
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"Here’s a guide on using app settings and tools to minimize the amount of AI content you see."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"If you want fewer cartoonish videos of dead celebrities, creepy or absurd images or fake bands playing synthetic tunes, a few platforms have rolled out settings and features to help minimize AI-generated content."
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While the pediatric group previously recommended two hours or less of screen time a day, a decade later, the American Academy of Pediatrics is gettin
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"One of the biggest shifts from 2016 to 2026: no set screen time limit. In contrast, 10 years ago, the AAP suggested limiting children to two hours of screen time a day."
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"[T]he AI Assessment Flowchart: a practical, self-evaluation tool that helps educators evaluate the validity of their individual assignments. Rather than prescribing a single 'correct' method, the flowchart guides educators through a series of reflective questions and decision points, helping them consider different aspects of their individual assignment design."