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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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"AI is not making us less intelligent. It is reducing the amount of intelligence we practise. The real problem is that we can slowly forget how to do things we no longer have to do. AI skill atrophy and cognitive offloading go hand in hand, and in this article we look at what happens when we outsource the thinking, judgement, and struggle that made those skills ours in the first place."
"The hidden cost of outsourcing our thinking and judgment to AI."
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"Underneath the numbers, the nature of work is changing yet again, and this time it’s turning everyone into a manager instead of a maker of widgets. That makes this a story about human in the loop and who keeps the agency. A person who can’t read what an agent did is still in the loop on paper, while the agent makes the calls."
"Agents at Anthropic now log six hours for every human hour, and reading their output would eat half a week. The job is to create judgement systems for what deserves attention."
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October 19, 11:12 AM
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A new European Union ruling is forcing giant AI companies to start using AI watermarks. This could have positive implications for AI detection efforts by teachers.
"Some critics of AI watermarking worry that since it won’t be perfect, it will lead society to a false sense of security and could potentially make it more likely to fall for AI-generated content"
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October 19, 11:09 AM
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"As the world increasingly recognizes the need for safer and more secure AI, U.S. colleges and universities are trying to meet a growing demand for AI security education that prepares future workers to safeguard businesses’ and governments’ powerful AI systems.
AI cybersecurity education programs, from undergraduate and graduate classes to professional certificates, are sprouting up all over the country, as experts warn that young people need to understand how to manage AI risks as they enter a workforce teeming with algorithms, models and agents. The recent autonomous-hacking incidents involving frontier AI models have further underscored the need for cybersecurity education."
"Student interest in AI safety is growing rapidly, and schools are rushing to prepare for new career paths."
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October 19, 11:06 AM
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"As you start the school year, have you thought about what is missing, or more precisely, who might be missing? Are you aware that technologies, even so-called advanced ones, especially instructional materials provided through web-based applications and programs, do not always meet standards and guidelines for accessibility for all students? By accessibility, we mean that students should be able to access, use, and learn with those web-based programs and applications with relatively the same ease as their peers."
"[S]tudents with various disabilities, exceptionalities, and/or challenges do not find web-based instructional materials accessible."
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October 16, 10:34 AM
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"Students were mostly supportive of the policy, saying that banning electronic devices from the classroom improved their learning."
"The three main themes...include: 1) increased engagement with the class (on an individual and collective level), 2) appreciation for a break from distractions, and 3) improvement in focus and learning."
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October 16, 10:28 AM
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"Remember when the initial wave of generative AI tools hit our screens, and the immediate reaction across higher education was a collective gasp, followed by a scramble for detection software? It felt like the academic world was bracing for an apocalypse of plagiarism, ready to unleash digital bloodhounds on any suspicious-looking essay. The promise of these AI detection tools was clear: they would be the ultimate arbiters of academic integrity, swiftly identifying any text not born of a human mind. But as is often the case with rapidly evolving technology, the reality has proven far more nuanced, and frankly, a good deal more complicated."
"Universities are increasingly moving away from relying solely on AI detection tools as definitive, ironclad evidence for academic misconduct. It’s a shift that acknowledges the limitations of the technology and, perhaps more importantly, the impracticality of a purely punitive approach in an era where AI is simply part of the digital landscape."
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October 15, 10:01 AM
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By understanding the historic rhythm of technology panics, education leaders can more effectively guide their institutions as AI continues to evolve
"By contextualizing the modern media panic within the history of drama and panic over technological change, leaders can help to guide their institutions though the rough and fluid waters as generative AI grows to maturity within the educational arena."
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October 15, 9:57 AM
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In a recent Gallup Inc poll, 79 percent of Americans believe that artificial intelligence will reduce the number of jobs over the next 10 years.
"Questions about the relationship between AI, higher education and the job market have become increasingly relevant to students preparing to enter the workforce."
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October 15, 9:52 AM
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"No one is going to save your career from AI. That’s the most useful thing anyone can tell you about your job, and the sooner you believe it, the sooner you start building a version of yourself the next economy will actually need."
"The new jobs will come, the way they always have. The real question is who gets you from the job you have now to the one that doesn’t exist yet."
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October 12, 3:12 PM
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"Where to start is its own question. The honest answer is where the value concentrates, not where the automation is easiest."
"The first mistake is treating the job as the unit. A job is a bundle of tasks, and the tasks inside one job vary wildly. Some are routine. Some carry judgment. One or two carry the trust the whole role exists for. So you cut roles by task."
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October 12, 3:08 PM
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The most useful question is: What is the customer trying to accomplish in the limited time and attention they are willing to give us?
"When technology is the primary way a student experiences the institution, technology maturity becomes part of the institution’s value proposition."
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"The evolution of digital accessibility has given us principles, standards, and tools to identify and remove barriers embedded within digital experiences. But as technology moves towards increasingly dynamic, personalized, and intelligent experiences, can the inclusion of accessibility remain static as it always were till recent? — or more than ever today, do we need to rethink how the term accessibility adapts alongside the people and contexts it is designed for?”
"In systems facilitated by intelligent accessibility infrastructure, content can change based on user behavior. Interfaces can adapt to different screen sizes and respond to diverse user goals and tasks."
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"Agents used to wait for a prompt because everyone thought that AI was only chat. Now they triage inboxes, update records, and send messages while we’re in another meeting. That’s the whole point of them, and it’s also where the trouble starts."
"Agents now act before we ask and reach past what we authorized. A person in the loop isn’t enough if nobody owns the outcome. Here’s what to consider when designing for it."
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"uturism was an early 20th-century avant-garde artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, celebrating the speed, machinery, technology, and dynamic energy of modern life while violently rejecting traditional art and history. It launched on February 20, 1909, when Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. The core goal was to liberate Italy from the heavy weight of its classical past, glorifying industrial cities, automobiles, and airplanes over museums and libraries. The movement’s alignment with Italian Fascism led to its decline."
"The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around since WWII but in the last decade the technology gradually caught up with expectations. Virtual environments, generative AI, and autonomous systems are blurring boundaries between physical, digital, and imagined spaces."
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October 19, 11:10 AM
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Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI” due to his pioneering work in the field, has a new, bold idea to regulate AI systems.
"Hinton’s call for greater oversight arrives as AI industry insiders raise alarms about the technology they are helping build."
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October 19, 11:08 AM
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According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the importance of people skills will likely be emphasized by generative AI.
"Emerging research suggests that the skills the future job market will demand most are skills that technology cannot replace or replicate: people skills."
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October 16, 10:36 AM
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"OpenAI recently brought ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 more school systems, giving over 100,000 educators access. Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education, warns that AI risks enfeebling the next generation without proper implementation. Data shows that students with stronger prior knowledge and curiosity benefit the most from AI tools. To combat this stratification, educators must cultivate student purpose and shift away from simply grading finished products. Instead, schools are exploring live demonstrations and AI-driven analysis of student interactions to evaluate the learning process. Ultimately, technology cannot replace human motivation, leaving teachers responsible for inspiring curiosity."
"As AI agents become ever more capable of doing intellectual work, the awkward question students inevitably face is 'Why bother doing anything at all, when I can just have the machine do it for me?'”
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October 16, 10:30 AM
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Curriculum must evolve beyond AI tools and teach learner agency, judgment, verification, and critical thinking for true digital literacy.
"The task is no longer simply to restrict AI, but to build curricula that address its risks while recognizing its growing presence in education and daily life."
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October 16, 10:24 AM
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A three-year longitudinal study of Nigerian computer science students found that AI ethics awareness, reflection, and perceived responsible use all grew substantially but developed independently rather than as a coordinated progression from knowledge to action.
"[E]ethical engagement with AI is multidimensional, asynchronous, and shaped by institutional conditions... it requires educational environments deliberately designed to make responsible practice possible, visible, and rewarded."
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October 15, 9:59 AM
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Learn how teacher preparation programs can teach responsible AI use while protecting student privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and trust in K-12 education.
"The conversation surrounding AI in education cannot focus solely on efficiency or innovation, it must also center on professional responsibility."
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October 15, 9:55 AM
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Read this report for timely statistics about U.S.-based online higher education, student outcomes, ROI, and more.
"75% of students said online learning is better than or equal to in-person learning, and 98% of all survey respondents said they would recommend online education to others."
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October 15, 9:48 AM
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The moving AI frontier in instructional design, and what it means for our roles & jobs
"When we’re reviewing AI’s outputs, we need to check both what’s there and whether it’s true: recalculate the key figures, trace each claim back to its source, and read learner feedback line by line."
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October 12, 3:11 PM
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The goal isn't to keep AI out but to control how it gets in and what rules it must follow.
"AI has developed something of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde problem. The same technology that is delivering extraordinary productivity is raising very real questions about access, control and unintended actions."
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October 12, 3:04 PM
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To move beyond discrete tactical gains, organizations must integrate AI with robust systems of record, clean data and flexible software partnerships.
"[W]inning with AI isn’t about adopting AI for its own sake. It’s about building the capabilities, operating models and culture needed to turn this rapidly evolving technology into a real business advantage."
"Laptops do not inherently degrade cognition or learning. Poorly designed instructional systems using laptops do."