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onto Educational Technology News March 5, 3:11 PM
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Learning in the AI age: Education 5.0 Patrick Blessinger Learning is for human flourishing, but only if we can see flourishing as something more than economic productivity, something more than employability, something more than credentials, though these things are very important.
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A study of more than 70 AI models, such as ChatGPT, shows that answers are similar even when prompted to be creative or brainstorm.
"Outwitting the AI hive mind requires some post-modern creativity."
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The goal of AI in higher education should be clear: Use technology to reinforce the learning moment, not replace it.
"[T]he goal of academic AI should be clear: Use technology to reinforce the learning moment, not replace it."
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Today, 11:37 AM
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Two years into his English literature degree at the University of Pittsburgh, sophomore Luke Johnson has noticed something in his liberal arts courses: Students in his classes have gone quiet.
“We’ve had this assumption that learning can happen in these very autonomous, individualistic ways,...But maybe that’s not how learning happens, maybe learning happens in the community?”
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"Design practice is changing again. The process is shrinking, and most tasks, especially the ones usually reserved for junior designers, are being automated. Speed is even more important than before, and the go-to-market timeline is reducing consistently with the advancement in AI technologies."
"What we lost when design became mainly UI, and what AI gives us the chance to reclaim"
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March 25, 11:52 AM
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I asked experts if I'm real. Bad news. Even my aunt wasn't sure if I was a deepfake. AI is so convincing that a sitting prime minister struggled to prove he's alive. You might be next.
"When we talk about deepfakes, the typical concern is about you getting tricked...[W]hat if the shoe was on the other foot? What if someone accuses you of being a deepfake? How do you prove you're real?"
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March 25, 11:49 AM
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"Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typing into fields, and navigating software on the user's behalf while they step away from their desk."
"The move thrusts Anthropic into the center of the most heated competition in artificial intelligence: the scramble to build agents that can act, not just talk."
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March 25, 11:39 AM
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Human judgment is a critical factor in making data-informed learning decisions.
"AI can help schools become more data informed, but it can also tempt them into becoming overly dependent on automated conclusions."
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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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Can AI truly reason? Discover how the CareerNet initiative uses expert labels to improve autonomous decision-making and bridge the gap in machine logic.
"Although agentic AI mimics aspects of human decision-making, the type of reasoning used by these systems differs from how reasoning is typically defined in psychology."
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"The screen-time debate is no longer confined to parenting advice. As states introduce legislation limiting devices in schools, and pediatric researchersrethink how digital environments affect development, educators are confronting a difficult question: when does technology support learning, and when does it undermine it?"
"In education, conversations about technology traditionally have focused on the digital divide and ensuring equitable access to devices and internet connectivity. That conversation is shifting."
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Students are clearly embracing AI as a learning tool, but they’re also conflicted about what it means for their own learning.
"Students most often reported using AI to get better explanations of assignments (38 percent), brainstorm ideas (35 percent), look up facts (33 percent) and draft or revise writing (33 percent). The survey found that older students were more likely than younger students to use AI for these purposes, with the exception of fact-checking."
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"Mikell Taylor, director of robotics strategy at General Motors, discusses next-generation robots and dispels some common myths."
"The next generation of robots may look quite different from the systems showcased in today’s lab demos and videos—but the real shift will be less about appearance than about collaboration."
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March 25, 12:00 PM
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"I grew up watching Star Trek. The hologram doctor who could diagnose anything. Data, who could process a universe of information in seconds. The ship's computer that always had the answer. When people ask me if I'm surprised by the rise of AI, my honest answer is no. I've been watching it coming for fifty years, one episode at a time.
But here's what I am surprised by. The companies now building real versions of those technologies seem to have missed the most important lesson Star Trek ever taught us."
"Right now, the AI companies are selling the ship. The smarter play is to sell the voyage...The AI companies have built extraordinary engines. Now they need to build extraordinary experiences."
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March 25, 11:50 AM
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Two years ago the Netherlands banned phones in schools. Now the government wants to go further, pushing to restrict social media for under‑16s.
"[T]he Dutch government wants to go further, pushing to restrict social media for under‑16s and calling for an EU‑wide 15+ age limit for apps like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat."
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March 25, 11:41 AM
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Discover how AI can extend faculty presence in graduate education by enhancing feedback, participation, and support while preserving empathy for adult learners.
"When you add your own voice—acknowledging effort, recognizing growth, or gently guiding a student through a challenge—you transform AI’s generic suggestions into meaningful support."
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March 25, 11:37 AM
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The Higher Learning Commission's endorsement marks the first time an accreditor has verified the quality of a microcredential provider.
"Third-party education providers want to partner with colleges and universities to offer microcredentials designed to complement existing academic offerings"
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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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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."
"[K]nowledge is now universally abundant and available to everyone, but it is fragmented, contested, and increasingly filtered through algorithms.
The aim of learning today should be to move from survival to meaning, from authority to participation, from control to co-creation, from power to rights, and from fragmentation to coherence."