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An AI agent is relational. It functions through ongoing access to your student's digital ecosystem.
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Parents want schools to teach AI — but 4 in 10 teachers say they’ve had no training at all.
"While some parent advocacy groups have pushed for recent bans on artificial intelligence in New York City and Los Angeles, at least one national survey shows that parents want AI in the classroom — if implemented responsibly."
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Districts need sustained support connecting AI to daily instructional decisions and support teachers in their efforts.
"Educators often found AI support most useful when someone connected it to a problem they were already trying to solve."
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"I teach digital prototyping to fashion design undergraduates and master’s students at UPM’s Fashion School. My course focuses on exploring app concepts that can enrich the fashion experience. Past project ideas ranged from aesthetic affinity social communities (and dating) and live-action fashion-branded games to smart garment upcycling, VR fashion recommendations, and even a shared laundry app for roommates.
In previous semesters, I asked my students to prototype in Figma and standard design software. This past term, however, we switched to an entirely AI-based toolset, including Google Stitch, Google AI Studio, and Lovable."
"Teaching students how to prototype with AI tools instead of Figma revealed exciting possibilities and uncomfortable trade-offs. It also offered valuable insight into how non-tech people can create apps with generative AI."
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November 2, 7:39 AM
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AI tutors won’t teach students to think until the conversation itself becomes the assessment.
"[W]hen the assessment is a live, adaptive conversation judged on how the student reasons, there is much less to outsource, and the transcript makes it easier to tell whose thinking it was."
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Universities are embedding technical competencies and ethics into learning outcomes, faculty development and degree requirements.
Universities "are taking varied approaches to ensure every graduate can understand, evaluate and apply AI in their field. Business schools are leading the push, with the expectation that AI proficiency will become a baseline workplace skill."
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November 2, 7:29 AM
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Understand the importance of completion rates and how they connect learning data to people and performance effectively.
"Completion rates and satisfaction scores can tell you whether people participated. However, they rarely explain whether the learning made a meaningful difference once employees returned to work."
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November 2, 7:24 AM
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Small AI helps young people build the skills and confidence to move from the classroom into meaningful jobs. The World Bank Group is working with countries to pilot small AI tools that support teachers, personalize learning, and support students.
"Using inputs such as classroom observations, teacher reflections, and teaching evaluations, [small AI] delivers coaching through a simple app on phones teachers already have and can accommodate intermittent internet connectivity."
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As generative AI has become embedded in the tools students use to search, write, create, translate, organize, and receive feedback, the boundary between "using AI" and "not using AI" has become increasingly difficult to define. More importantly, treating AI use as a binary choice does little to help students understand the different roles AI can appropriately play in learning.
"AI use needs more nuance than "allowed" or "prohibited": Because AI is increasingly embedded in everyday tools, students need clear guidance on how much AI involvement is appropriate for a given learning task."
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"“Presence is a sense of being in a place and belonging to a group” [1]. This article is a comparative review examining the effects of social presence, as well as the importance of instructional immediacy, on student instructional success, and the necessity of considering learner gratification within traditional educational settings and emergency remote teaching (ERT) in higher education settings. Considerable research on the significance of social presence in the online learning community has been conducted, yet there is still much to learn."
"While there is a definite correlation in CMC between the development and sustenance of social presence along with instructional immediacy in online learning situations, ERT environments ultimately involve an additional element of importance: emotional well-being"
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October 30, 12:54 PM
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Why higher education needs trust, critical thinking, and authentic assessment, not surveillance alone.
"If students believe their instructor is primarily trying to catch them, they may become more focused on avoiding detection than on developing intellectual independence. The question becomes not 'What did I learn?' but 'Will this look suspicious?'”
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Explore the podcast vs. blog discussion to determine which format best meets your learning needs and preferences.
"In the debate podcast vs. blog, start by thinking about what your learners need to learn, not just which format you prefer...the best approach is not to pick one format over another, but to make sure employees get the support they need when they need it."
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October 29, 3:03 PM
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"Exposure to artificial intelligence runs through the tasks you do each week, not the role on your badge. Here’s how to measure yours and lower the risk."
"Artificial intelligence doesn’t care about your job title or mine. It’s probabilistically predicting an outcome without looking at your LinkedIn."
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"Time-strapped and distracted, students say reading for pleasure is a luxury and AI is sometimes the best teacher on campus."
"Their hopes and their fears about their own ability to do well in college, what they think about AI is a lot more nuanced than what many people might think. I think if there’s one lesson here, it’s listen to students. They might surprise you."
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Unmanned aerial system curricula help K–12 students achieve industry certifications before graduation.
"As automation, artificial intelligence and connected technologies reshape the global economy, school districts are looking to prepare students for careers that may not have existed a decade ago. Drone education offers an increasingly attractive pathway."
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"The UX job market right now is genuinely grim.
Jeff Sauro, PhD and Jim Lewis, PhD found that UX job postings are down 71 percent from their 2022 peak, and research postings are down even further. They also found that one in three organizations cut UX staff in a single year, the worst reading on record, worse than the one right after the 2008 financial crisis.
When companies trimmed their teams, UX roles took a bigger share of the cuts than their headcount would predict."
"Everyone thinks AI is coming for design. The truth is uglier and older. The field has done this to itself twice before, and it’s about to do it again."
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/MDPP1855 I keep saying that I am somewhat of an AI skeptic, and I still have many reservations about AI use, including concerns about its environmental impact and the ways in which
"[U]sing AI as a native-speaker informant is less about finding answers than about learning to ask better questions. My own experience has reminded me that language learning involves uncertainty, investigation, and a willingness to reconsider our assumptions."
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"Critical thinking becomes easier to teach when students have something specific to examine. Instead of asking them simply to “think critically,” we can ask them to identify a purpose, question an assumption, evaluate information, or explain how they reached a conclusion."
"The eight elements provide a structure for this work: purpose, question at issue, information, interpretation and inference, concepts, assumptions, implications and consequences, and point of view."
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A majority of employers remain confident in higher ed, with just less than half saying college degrees will become more important as AI advances.
"80% of employers said they prefer job candidates with a bachelor's or associate degree—even when the position does not require one."
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A new report from the Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard University found AI suspicion is fueling a lack of trust between teachers and educators. A report author shares three strategies for overcoming that.
"Teachers are worried about students using AI to cheat, while students are worried about being accused of cheating and that their teachers are using AI in ways they shouldn’t"
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October 30, 1:05 PM
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Nearly four-in-ten U.S. adults are in an online community. These virtual third spaces can take many forms, like Facebook groups, online video games or fandom forums on Reddit.
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As institutions work to set technology priorities and budgets for the year ahead, now is the time to determine what to add, what to consolidate, and where to get more from existing investments.
"Technology value depends on more than acquisition and implementation: Higher ed institutions need to consider how tools fit within the broader ecosystem, whether people will use them, what complexity they add or remove, and what it takes to sustain them over time."
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"Practitioners know what good output looks like and should own the final call, with operations handling the plumbing."
"Generative tools produce something plausible every time, and the errors hide in details only a practitioner checks."
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October 29, 3:10 PM
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Deciding whether students should use AI requires balancing safety with the developmental need to learn about managing risk.
"Children, it turns out, may actually benefit from play experiences involving height, speed, uncertainty and even a little fear. A hazard is something kids can’t reasonably be expected to recognize or know how to handle. Managing risk asks them to learn by making a judgment call."
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And most employers prefer to hire workers with a college degree, even if the job doesn’t require one. Despite fears that AI will replace many entry-level white collar jobs, new data shows that many employers still want workers with a college degree.
"Despite fears that AI will replace many entry-level white collar jobs, new data shows that many employers still want workers with a college degree."
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"We see AI interfaces every day, and many of them already follow the basic best practices of designing for AI. But what happens when the task is more complex: when generating an answer takes minutes rather than seconds, and the subject of research has many sides to it?"
"When an answer takes seconds, a misunderstood prompt costs very little. The user rephrases and tries again. When an answer takes minutes, a wrong start is expensive: the user waits, reads a long report, realises it answers a different question, and has to start over."
"[E]very expansion of AI capability in the agentic era is, simultaneously, an expansion of data exposure. These aren’t separable. You don’t get the powerful AI assistant without giving it access. You don’t open the doors without accepting what flows through them."