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onto Educational Technology News March 4, 12:27 PM
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Why are students so comfortable using AI for emotional support?
"Navigating budget shortfalls and limited mental health staff, Interlachen Jr.-Sr. High School, where Phillips works, is using an AI platform to vet students’ mental health needs."
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March 24, 10:38 AM
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"Artificial intelligence (AI) is heavily impacting privacy, creating a new reality for which privacy professionals are largely unprepared. Many AI system vulnerabilities lead to privacy breaches that are highly damaging, undermining the privacy function’s capability to be a major competitive advantage and enhance brand value."
“With more sensitive data being collected, stored and transmitted than ever before, the odds are greater that at least some of it will be exposed or deployed in ways that infringe on privacy rights.”
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March 24, 10:26 AM
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"Many people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.
Persona-based prompting – which involves using directives such as "You're an expert machine learning programmer" in a model prompt – dates back to 2023, when researchers began to explore how role-playing instructions influenced AI models’ output.
It's now common to find online prompting guides that include passages like, "You are an expert full-stack developer tasked with building a complete, production-ready full-stack web application from scratch."
But academics who have researched this approach report it does not always produce superior results."
"Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts"
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March 24, 10:06 AM
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"The Industrial Revolution didn’t just change what people made — it fundamentally changed how work was organized, who did it, and what society owed the people doing it.
We’re standing at a similar inflection point right now, which is a massive cliff where we have to jump before we’re pushed.
In the same way the Industrial Revolution rewrote how many things are made, the Intelligence Revolution is rewriting the rules of work, and the companies and leaders who understand history will be the ones who actually navigate it.
Everyone else will be improvising."
"If you want to understand where AI is taking us, stop staring at the future. Look back about 150 years."
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March 23, 1:36 PM
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Prospective students are increasingly using AI to decide where to go to school, so it’s critical that institutions adopt and embrace it to increase reach.
"The systems increasingly deciding which institutions students discover couldn’t read, extract or cite what was on our website. We’d spent years perfecting our brand voice, and the robots didn’t even know we existed."
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March 23, 1:31 PM
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Read about several practices that helped me keep generative AI in learning design productive but still under control.
"[A]nyone who has used generative AI in real projects knows the other side of the story: AI is not neutral. When the data is incomplete or the prompt is vague, the system does not simply respond with "I don't know." Instead, it fills the gaps."
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March 23, 1:26 PM
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"Societies must channel technological potential toward broad-based growth rather than allowing the gains to concentrate among the winners of the speculative phase."
"In 2021, building a minimum viable software product took a team of engineers three months and cost roughly $50,000. In 2026, a single person with an artificial intelligence coding assistant can produce the equivalent over a weekend for a few thousand dollars in application programming interface costs."
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March 23, 1:20 PM
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OpenAI introduces new ChatGPT workspace analytics for Enterprise and Edu users, helping organizations track AI adoption and engagement. Read the latest edtech news from ETIH on how analytics tools are shaping AI deployment across education and enterprise.
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March 23, 1:18 PM
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"Big companies like XREAL and Meta have released their new AR glasses over the past few months. Unlike bulky VR headsets, they are much lighter and more comfortable, which means users can keep them on longer. I’ve tried some of them myself, and honestly, they’re still a bit heavy (mine keep sliding down my oily nose.) But given how fast the technology is developing, they’ll probably shrink soon and become much more popular."
"AR has different characteristics than the traditional 2D screen, which means we might have more senses to play with and more ways to engage (trick) the brain. It’s important to think about this while the technology is still in its early development, before design patterns get locked in."
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March 20, 11:16 AM
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How do instructors get students to trust their own thinking and be better than robots?
"Before they can develop discernment about any tool, they need something more foundational: a sense of their own thinking as worth trusting."
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March 20, 11:08 AM
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Innovative Leader Award - Courtney Bock shares how she created her AI PD program that helps educators understand the basics so they can implement it in their instruction.
“It can be pretty isolating sometimes as an educator when they’re thinking, ‘Am I the only one that is not getting this?’” says Bock, who was recently honored with a Tech & Learning Innovative Leader Award. “And then they go to the PD, see other teachers, and realize, ‘Oh, no, you're struggling, too. Okay, great. We can struggle together.’"
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March 20, 11:03 AM
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Online education is seeing a surge in education – but universities must think carefully about the systems they use to make their programs digital, says Joël McConnell.
The migration to online education is organisational, not technological...Online education therefore operates less like a single innovation and more like a multi-layered institutional system involving strategy, operations and pedagogy"
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March 20, 10:56 AM
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This article explains how to incorporate AI into your Instructional Design workflow using a safety-first QA approach.
"When an AI "hallucinates" (i.e., it confidently states a fact that isn't true), it creates a mess. If a learner follows a hallucinated safety step, people get hurt. If a manager follows a hallucinated HR policy, the company gets sued."
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March 24, 10:43 AM
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"As generative artificial intelligence reshapes instructional workflows at colleges and universities, a four-level transparency framework can help education developers calibrate documentation and disclosure practices to support ethical responsibility and maintain student trust."
"The GenAI Use Transparency Framework...treats transparency as an iterative, teachable habit built into creation, collaboration, and review."
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March 24, 10:34 AM
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"In conversations across the country, I hear a growing mix of excitement and apprehension about the role of artificial intelligence in education. Many see the potential, yet most also sense a disconnect between what today’s AI tools produce and the kinds of learning experiences we want for young people. This tension is not incidental—it reflects a deeper issue in how AI currently “understands” teaching and learning.
Most generative AI tools carry a built-in bias toward traditional, teacher-directed instruction."
"AI will not generate that future on its own. We must design and input the pedagogical foundations that guide it."
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March 24, 10:22 AM
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Given so many conversations in the public sphere about how devices and screen time are affecting developing minds (and adult ones), educators might consider how technology has changed how we live and communicate.
"The digital-technology revolution of the past few decades has provided impressive innovations and improvements, but the way our social media environment is now interwoven with our work, education and personal time has led to a daily bombardment of digital messages and distractions."
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March 24, 10:01 AM
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"We created the AI Pedagogy Project to help educators engage their students in meaningful conversations about the capabilities and limitations of AI, grounded in hands-on experimentation. Our goal is to support educators, students, and the general public in exploring questions like: How do we make informed, intentional decisions about the role of AI in the classroom? How can students build critical relationships with these tools? And how might imaginative applications of AI enhance learning?"
"[T]he AI Pedagogy Project [was developed] to help educators engage their students in meaningful conversations about the capabilities and limitations of AI, grounded in hands-on experimentation."
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March 23, 1:32 PM
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AI has arrived as a powerful, pervasive reality, bringing with it a whirlwind of innovation, new tools, and pressing questions. Here are five practical steps to help your institution navigate this rapidly evolving landscape and accelerate its path to real transformation.
"Successful AI integration requires strategy and dedicated expertise: Institutions should establish dedicated roles or teams to guide AI strategy, oversight, and governance."
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March 23, 1:28 PM
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When it comes to writing assignments, AI has exacerbated many existing problems, argues one educator.
"[G]enerative AI has poured gasoline and lit a match on top of an already flawed grading system."
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March 23, 1:22 PM
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Letter: Instead of romanticising a pre-AI past, universities should use this moment to rethink what they actually want students to demonstrate, says Dr Nafisa Baba-Ahmed
"[W]orking with students on academic writing, blaming AI risks masking a problem that universities have lived with for years."
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March 23, 1:19 PM
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The willingness to learn about artificial intelligence is now a requirement across professions, making AI education as vital as ever.
"With hiring managers increasingly prioritizing AI fluency, leaning into education may be the smartest career move."
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March 23, 1:15 PM
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Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors.
"[U]sers who heavily relied on large language models (LLMs) produced responses that diverged significantly in meaning from the answers of participants who only partially relied on LLMs or avoided their use altogether, suggesting heavy AI use alters the substance of humans’ arguments in addition to changing writing style."
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March 20, 11:13 AM
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Some new findings show that AI has certain benefits, such as reducing barriers for students with learning disabilities. But overall, more evidence is needed to understand how AI influences learning.
"[S]tudies from 2019 through 2022 show that AI might help students learn and stay motivated by providing a personalized learning experience. However, the evidence appears less promising when considering how students learn after they use AI and then stop using it."
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March 20, 11:05 AM
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Drawing on five years of Pew Research Center surveys, here are 13 findings about how Americans use and view AI, and where they see promise and risk.
"Half of U.S. adults say the increased use of AI in daily life makes them feel more concerned than excited, according to a June 2025 survey. Just 10% say they are more excited than concerned. Another 38% say they are equally concerned and excited."
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March 20, 10:59 AM
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"And they don’t care about your pixel-perfect mockups."
"Salesforce predicts one billion AI agents will be active by the end of 2026. Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise apps will include task-specific agents this year, up from under 5% in 2025. IBM just accelerated Watson X with GPU computing so that AI agents can query structured databases faster than any human ever could."
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March 18, 12:29 PM
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"Few spheres of public life have been more rapidly and thoroughly transformed by generative AI products than education, and few professions have been more dramatically upended than teachers and education workers. There’s a case to be made that the first major social transformation of the modern AI era was the mass diffusion of ChatGPT into classrooms, where students took to using it as an easy implement for cheating on homework."
"Teachers and students alike are being encouraged from all angles to adopt AI products, setting up new arenas for tension and conflict, and posing serious questions about the future of instruction."
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Interesting article about the use of AI to support teens’ mental health - With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2026-03-03-with-teens-comfortable-confiding-in-ai-should-schools-embrace-it-for-mental-health-care