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onto Educational Technology News February 25, 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.
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"Much of the talk about AI’s potential impact on the labor market has focused on which jobs may be automated or eliminated. But a new analysis zeros in on what some experts increasingly think may be the bigger risk: the disruption of the career pathways that provide economic mobility to millions of workers."
"A new report from Brookings and Opportunity@Work argues that AI could jeopardize the career pathways that provide mobility for 23M Americans without four-year degrees."
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Transform your approach to knowledge by mastering how to ask AI questions effectively for better results in your L&D career.
"Using clear and organized prompts helps AI provide relevant, detailed, and accurate answers. For Instructional Designers, this means focusing on how to frame questions rather than just thinking about the answers."
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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the workforce, and higher education must adapt accordingly to prepare students for an entirely new professional landscape. Corporate leaders are not shying away from the reality of this transformation. Many have begun to articulate the profound changes ahead, from evolving job functions to the automation of routine and repetitive tasks."
"AI is transforming the workforce. Learn how higher education can prepare students with adaptability, creativity, and critical thinking for the future of work."
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"The widespread adoption of AI in the classroom has arrived. Students now regularly use AI-powered tools to reinforce or even introduce new concepts into their studies. That shift has academic leadership asking, 'How can we provide learners with AI tools they actually want to use, while ensuring that those tools honor academic integrity and align with faculty-selected content?'”
"To be effective in higher education, AI must do more than generate answers. It must integrate into the learning experience, reinforce faculty intent, build student confidence, and promote effective learning practices."
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"As artificial intelligence tools continue to rapidly evolve, some K-12 leaders say it’s time to switch up districts’ approach to their adoption and implementation. Unlike how districts commonly procured ed tech in the past, decisions on AI tools need to be reevaluated over time"
"[E]ducation leaders detailed how they implement and govern AI by sharing responsibilities across departments and piloting tools."
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Richer countries face greater exposure to AI-driven changes than developing countries, which are less exposed to AI but risk being left behind, according to a joint report from the International Labour Organization and World Bank.
"AI will reshape work more than replace it. Most jobs aren't disappearing, but the tasks within them are changing—especially in white-collar and cognitive roles where generative AI is most effective."
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April 14, 2:17 PM
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"Student agency, and the self-regulation that accompanies it, has always been important. But that importance ratcheted up with internet usage substantially growing in the late 1990s. The internet democratized access to information, allowing students more control over their own learning if they chose to take advantage of it. Students with good self-regulation skills took advantage of this newly increased access and saw their learning expand. Students with poor self-regulation skills fell behind. In today’s environment, the combination of increased self-regulation, task interest, and task persistency—all linked to student agency—becomes a powerful cocktail for driving success in academics and beyond."
"[W]hen it comes to academic life, many students often see themselves as “at the mercy of” the professor, with no agency of their own."
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"“Conceptually distinct from cognitive offloading, which involves strategically outsourcing a discrete task to an external tool (e.g., using a calculator), cognitive surrender represents a deeper abdication of critical evaluation, where the user relinquishes cognitive control and adopts the AI’s judgment as their own…."
"As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."
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"If you work in faculty development, you have probably heard the same concern on a loop for the past year: All my students are cheating using AI. At Geogia State University, our campus teaching and learning center gets more requests for workshops on how to prevent digital dishonesty than any other topic. Throughout the fall 2025 semester, I averaged one workshop, presentation or meeting about AI and academic integrity every four workdays."
"By removing the space for safe experimentation and feedback, we have made the struggle to learn a liability. In that context, students are turning to AI not to avoid learning, but to avoid the risk of failure in a system that offers them no safety net."
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A connected campus supports improved learning experiences, campus operations, and decision-making with secure interoperability across systems and resources.
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"Digital services have long been used by bad actors to facilitate child sexual abuse, but generative AI introduces new dynamics that challenge traditional legal and investigative models. Synthetic imagery may be created or manipulated without direct access to a victim, and offenders may operate at greater scale and speed across modalities (text, image, video) and jurisdictions. These developments strain investigative resources and expose gaps in statutory definitions, reporting expectations, and prevention mechanisms, while also creating opportunities for earlier detection and disruption when paired with clear safeguards and standards."
"[T]his framework aligns legal authorities, provider operational practices, and AI system safeguards so that risks can be identified earlier, reports can be acted upon more quickly, and investigators can pursue accountability more effectively."
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Free Playbook to Protecting Higher Ed's Academic Value in the AI Age. In this guide, learn how higher ed leaders can embrace AI in a way that sets their institution apart while setting students up for success.
"In this guide, learn how higher ed leaders can embrace AI in a way that sets their institution apart while setting students up for success."
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"Your average computer science major seems to now be the poster child for Gen Z college grads unable to secure the sort of jobs that a decade of “top majors” features promised them. CS has until recently been assumed to be a “safe” major that guaranteed employment, often with a high starting salary in a perks-laden workplace, or equity in a fast-growing startup. A decline in demand for recent graduates has led to headlines suggesting the boom is over, and that AI poses an existential threat to all computer science occupations."
"The story of computer science isn’t one of decline amid the rise of artificial intelligence, but one of evolution."
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"The screen-time debate has been asking the right question in the wrong direction. The screen we should be thinking about is the teacher’s."
"The point of AI is not to replace the teacher--it is to give her more of what he or she actually needs: time and structure."
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"There are people who fear that artificial intelligence will render human beings irrelevant in the workforce. Denise Kleinrichert is not one of those people.
A management professor at San Francisco State University, Kleinrichert predicts that the use of AI will become as common as the use of cell phones, and that organizational departments to oversee AI’s use will become as ordinary as human resources departments."
"Institutions are teaching students how to know when artificial intelligence is biased, when it could threaten privacy and when it is just plain wrong."
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"Colleges are increasingly looking to recruit adult learners as a means of bolstering enrollment amid an anticipated decline in traditional-aged students. In turn, higher education officials are grappling with how to best serve students who have likely not been in a formal educational environment in years."
"Artificial intelligence can help bridge gaps for students, but it isn’t as simple as buying a bunch of products"
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April 14, 2:22 PM
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"Some studies have found that chatbot tutors can backfirebecause students lean on them too heavily, get spoonfed solutions and fail to absorb the material. Even when AI tutors are designed not to give away answers, they haven’t consistently produced better results than learning the old-fashioned way without AI.
Still, researchers who have produced these skeptical studies haven’t given up hope. Some are still experimenting, trying to build better AI tutors."
"University of Pennsylvania researchers tweaked an AI tutor to tailor the difficulty of practice problems for each student."
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Accessibility compliance ensures students, parents, and community members with disabilities can properly and effectively access content.
"Recent updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act means digital accessibility for public educational institutions can not be ignored. It will become a legal mandate."
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"While artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, there is still a lack of understanding about it. If AI becomes a vital tool for civic life and work, schools must cultivate skills and disseminate AI literacy, integrating it into the school curriculum. We must take on the challenge of 'how to achieve AI literacy through informal learning experiences in people's daily lives, using plugged and unplugged ways.'"
"These components aim to provide a foundational AI knowledge base...The competencies are perception, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, human-AI interaction, and AI and society."
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April 14, 2:05 PM
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A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.
"Students are struggling with articulating and actualizing purpose now in ways that I’ve not seen before. Part of that may have to do with the generational challenges of the pandemic, increased screen time, but I also think AI is a culprit."
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April 13, 12:25 PM
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This guide breaks down the 13 essential AI skills and a strategic training plan to help your workforce thrive in an AI-powered world.
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"The growing role of artificial intelligence in higher education is forcing colleges to adapt, and Montana campuses are preparing to take a major step with a new AI tool launching as early as May.
When Dawson Community College President Chad Knudson attended the March Board of Regents Meeting in Dillon over spring break, a separate meeting held in conjunction with the Regents was part of Montana University System’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force one of the key topics was ChatMT.AI.
Knudson stated that ChatMT will be an AI tool rolled out to the Montana University System statewide as a suite of resources focused on streamlining administrative processes."
“The students will be required to use AI in their professional life, but you also have to teach them the appropriate ethical use and not use it as a tool to cheat"
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"Gen Z’s negative sentiment toward artificial intelligence has grown over the past year, and many are concerned about it harming their learning, according to a Thursday survey from Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures."
"Most respondents expressed concern that AI designed to speed up tasks would 'make learning more difficult.'”
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April 10, 12:16 PM
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"Algorithms. Beauty filters. Endless scrolling.
The case over “social media addiction” against Meta and Google in a California courtroom ultimately came down to these elements, legal experts say, and what a jury found was negligence on social media companies’ part when designing apps where tweens and teens would come to spend roughly one-fifth of their day."
"Just one day before the California verdict, a New Mexico jury found Meta liable in a $375 million consumer protection lawsuit over its failure to protect children from social media harm on its platforms."
"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?"