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onto Educational Technology News February 23, 12:51 PM
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"In recent years, a growing chorus of critics has argued that laptops and digital devices are undermining student learning. Headlines warn of distraction, declining attention spans, and deteriorating academic performance. In response, some schools have moved to restrict or even eliminate laptop use in classrooms altogether.
Yet this framing—technology as the culprit—rests on a flawed assumption. A closer reading of contemporary research suggests a different conclusion:"
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Today, 11:24 AM
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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.
"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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Today, 11:19 AM
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College administrators who are working smarter with AI chatbots share ideas for keeping data safe and boosting connections with staff.
"[U]sers should treat every prompt like a public record"
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Today, 11:14 AM
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"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)."
"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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After being accused of cheating, a student sued his university and won. He denied ever having cheating on his essay.
"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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Research uncovers a critical gap in preparing college students for real-world careers that will be largely AI enabled.
"[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."
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February 23, 1:00 PM
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"The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI "tsunami" wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years."
"Tasks that are eliminated are usually what entry-level jobs do at present, so young people searching for jobs find it harder to get to a good placement."
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February 23, 12:56 PM
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Screen time is rising among the youngest students. Experts explain its effect on literacy skills.
"About one-third of children entering preschool in 2025 didn’t know how to handle a book properly, with some trying to swipe at pages as if they were a phone or tablet."
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February 23, 12:51 PM
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"In recent years, a growing chorus of critics has argued that laptops and digital devices are undermining student learning. Headlines warn of distraction, declining attention spans, and deteriorating academic performance. In response, some schools have moved to restrict or even eliminate laptop use in classrooms altogether.
Yet this framing—technology as the culprit—rests on a flawed assumption. A closer reading of contemporary research suggests a different conclusion:"
"Laptops do not inherently degrade cognition or learning. Poorly designed instructional systems using laptops do."
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February 20, 9:44 AM
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“At a high level, what the school districts are saying is, ‘You targeted kids. You knew that your product was potentially dangerous because it wa
"School districts are among a wave of plaintiffs who claim that the platforms’ design, not the content, poses the real threat to kids’ mental health."
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February 20, 9:38 AM
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"A practical guide to designing with code in 2026"
"What should designers produce to help teams decide faster while raising the quality bar and reducing implementation waste?"
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February 19, 10:38 AM
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Why banning AI won’t fix higher education—and how redesigning teaching, assessment, and integrity can prepare students to learn and lead in an AI-driven world.
"The most profound problems in higher education are structural and pedagogical, not technological. Prohibition doesn’t fix these problems; it hides them."
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February 19, 10:32 AM
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"I showed my team an AI-generated design. Two senior designers called it ‘solid.’ None of them questioned where it came from."
"[T]his design follows every single best practice in the SaaS landing page playbook. Clear headline. Social proof. Benefit-driven copy. Visual hierarchy. It checks every box. And it’s completely forgettable."
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Today, 11:27 AM
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How a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned-AI ethicist used assessment to personalize instruction before AI-powered edtech existed.
"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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Today, 11:21 AM
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"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."
"[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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Today, 11:16 AM
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"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."
“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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Today, 11:11 AM
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"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."
"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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"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."
"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 23, 1:01 PM
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In an AI era where homework can be generated instantly, the most valuable evidence of learning is human reasoning behind the finished product
"Long before generative AI entered the classroom, homework relied on a quiet, fragile assumption that what was submitted reflected independent understanding."
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February 23, 12:58 PM
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"Data collection is being automated. The strategic layer is wide open. The question is which side of that line you’re standing on."
"The research industry is getting commodified. A wave of AI-powered platforms can now conduct interviews, run surveys at scale, transcribe sessions, cluster themes, and deliver summary reports faster than any human team"
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February 23, 12:55 PM
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An AI agent is relational. It functions through ongoing access to your student's digital ecosystem.
"[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."
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February 20, 9:45 AM
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As generative artificial intelligence supercharges phishing and deepfakes, schools must adapt to protect a culture built on openness and trust.
“Phishing messages that used to be sloppy and easy to spot can now be tailored, timely and written in a way that feels completely legitimate.”
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February 20, 9:42 AM
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This article explores the hidden limitations of recorded learning and how students actually try to overcome confusion during self-study.
"Recorded courses are built around planned explanations. They work well when a student's question matches the structure of the lesson. But learning rarely follows a straight path."
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February 20, 9:36 AM
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"Since the APA Style team wrote our 2023 post about citing ChatGPT, the landscape of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has changed dramatically. You have likely seen, and probably used, other AI tools in the meantime, and using these tools for assistance in the writing process may no longer seem unusual."
"Transparency is an important part of scientific reporting—that is, you should describe what you did and why so that readers can understand, evaluate, and potentially replicate your work. Thus, if you used AI when writing your paper, it will usually be necessary to disclose the use and cite the chat and/or AI tool."
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February 19, 10:36 AM
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"The battle between bots and brains has already begun, and educators can see how it might end"
"Reading closely, thinking critically, and writing with logic and evidence are precisely the skills people need to realise the bona fide potential of AI to support lifelong learning.”
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February 19, 10:28 AM
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A simple, practical blueprint for building your first team of agents for L&D — and what this means for your role
"The tasks that agents are best at — monitoring, pattern-finding, quality-checking, synthesising data, closing feedback loops — are exactly the tasks that instructional designers know they should be doing but rarely have bandwidth for."
"Laptops do not inherently degrade cognition or learning. Poorly designed instructional systems using laptops do."