First, it was no phones in schools. Now, amid the debate around edtech, schools are looking to go screen free.
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First, it was no phones in schools. Now, amid the debate around edtech, schools are looking to go screen free.
"Some legislators and advocates are pushing to roll back the reliance on devices, particularly at a younger level when children are more susceptible to distractions."
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July 8, 11:25 AM
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Streaming solved the problem of access. Now, we must solve the problem of engagement.
"Vinyl records and AI are actually similar technologies. Both seem to provoke a human response to technology: the easier something becomes via technology, the more we begin questioning what was valuable about the underlying use in the first place."
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July 8, 11:20 AM
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Conversations with Kevin Hogan: Equal Opportunity Schools CEO AJ Gutierrez on why more than half of students ready for advanced coursework go unidentified and how combining survey data, predictive analytics, and human judgment can change that.
"Education is always going to be human-led, but technology-augmented...You can't just share a dashboard or a widget and expect big change. You're talking about shifting mindsets and shifting human behavior."
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July 8, 11:16 AM
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"There’s a moment, working with AI, when you stop knowing exactly what you’re doing. Not because you get lost technically, but because your relationship with the tool changes completely. That’s where something cracks. Not in the technology, but in our role."
"What came next is what I call the crisis of the what. The moment AI stopped executing instructions and started taking part in the decisions that generate them."
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July 8, 11:11 AM
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Use of the AI-powered tools to boost students’ writing and studying skills comes with advantages and disadvantages.
"There is a risk that marginalized students, who are not served well, will not get the training or experience with AI to both master learning and compete in the workforce"
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July 7, 12:51 PM
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Higher education was designed for a world in which access to knowledge, expertise, feedback, mentorship, and authentic learning experiences were inherently scarce. By making many forms of intelligence increasingly abundant, AI is inherently redefining the existing paradigm.
"AI shifts education from information access to capability development: As explanation, feedback, guidance, and simulation become more abundant, higher education must place greater emphasis on judgment, application, competency, and responsible use of knowledge."
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July 7, 12:47 PM
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Two teachers learn what happens when they trust a tool to solve a problem.
"A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Yondr pouches had no statistically significant impact on standardized test scores for high schoolers in English"
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July 7, 12:43 PM
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Microlearning apps are shifting from fixed lesson libraries to AI learning engines that generate courses on demand.
"The new-gen apps combine bite-sized lessons, spaced repetition, and strong fact-checking, turning almost any topic into a personalized course with quizzes, images, and more."
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July 6, 1:20 PM
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In the age of AI, governance is about ensuring that institutions remain capable of directing what intelligent systems are helping them become
"Higher education continues to treat AI as just another technology to be deployed, managed, and governed. That assumption is increasingly inadequate."
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July 6, 1:15 PM
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"Why systems thinking is becoming the most important UX skill As apps become more context-aware, the designer’s job is shifting from shaping screens to shaping systems."
"[S]ystems thinking and platform based design is very much about understanding user needs at the right moment. The only way to get the real insights is to spend time running effective user research with real people and not just relying on AI approximations."
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July 6, 1:07 PM
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Discover how AI over-reliance and dopamine-driven instant gratification affect critical thinking, and learn practical strategies for helping students use AI more intentionally.
"[C]ontinually turning to AI to avoid the discomfort of effortful thinking can lead to habits that make sustained and independent critical thinking increasingly difficult."
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July 3, 4:10 PM
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"Since at least the 1960s, the connection between education and economic outcomes has been the subject of substantial research—both theoretical and empirical. Economists have long demonstrated that higher levels of education are associated with increased productivity, higher earnings and stronger economic growth."
"For decades, education has been shaped by the demands of the knowledge economy, where access to information and mastery of content were primary goals. But that model is no longer sufficient. What increasingly matters is not just what students know, but how effectively they can learn new information, integrate ideas across contexts, solve unfamiliar problems and adapt to changing demands."
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July 3, 3:47 PM
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Every day, another op-ed lands in my feed: AI is destroying education.
"We built an education system around information retrieval, and then we ranked children by who could retrieve the most, fastest. That’s the game. And then — recently, conveniently, right about when the machines got good at the game — we started insisting that what we really value, above all else, is critical thinking."
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July 8, 11:29 AM
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"Rote memorization is a better way to learn things like math facts and vocabulary words than whatever the latest trendy method is at the moment."
“Every issue that exists in public schools is a microcosm of the issues that exist in society in general, and until society fixes itself, the things that are broken about the system won’t get better.”
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July 8, 11:22 AM
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Most social learning programs start and end with discussion boards. But real social learning looks nothing like a forum thread.
"Forums mimic social learning in form but miss it in function. They're passive. They're asynchronous in a way that kills momentum. And they place the burden of engagement entirely on the learner, with no structure to guide the conversation toward a useful outcome."
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July 8, 11:18 AM
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Learn practical strategies for managing technology change in higher education, reducing change fatigue, and partnering with IT to support teaching success.
"When a learning platform changes or a new grading system goes live, instructors are not just updating software; they are rewriting assignments, redesigning courses, relearning navigation, troubleshooting student questions, and teaching, all at the same time. When faculty push back on this, it isn’t resistance to change. It is exhaustion."
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July 8, 11:13 AM
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Teacher burnout rates have remained high since COVID-19, but experts say artificial intelligence is still a promising solution if done right — and at scale.
"Some reasons teachers are still dabbling with AI tools instead of integrating the technology into their core responsibilities is because AI guidance is inconsistent and lacking in many schools"
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July 7, 12:55 PM
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AI must evolve beyond a simple information dispenser; it must design structured environments that respect human perceptual organization, guiding the learner seamlessly toward a comprehensive and lasting understanding of the whole.
"[I]f Vygotsky’s principles guide us on when to introduce challenge and how to scaffold the learner, Gestalt theory ensures that the final destination of that challenge is a sudden, meaningful cognitive reorganization."
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July 7, 12:49 PM
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"Today, we are releasing a fully fleshed out version, 30 skills aligned with each of these roles to help model using AI to support our uniquely human skills,” said Richard Culatta, CEO of the organization."
“Humans have always used tools to accomplish human tasks. AI is no different, but when we teach AI as a way to support us being better at being human, it is far more relevant and far more meaningful than when we just talk about what AI is.”
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July 7, 12:45 PM
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This article explores the cognitive science behind why the expert blind spot exists—and what L&D professionals can do about it.
"[A]s expertise becomes automatic, experts stop noticing the intermediate steps beginners still need. What feels obvious to the SME often remains invisible to the learner."
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July 6, 1:21 PM
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Even when students use AI entirely within institutional rules, they still most likely bypass the struggle through which learning often occurs
"Artificial intelligence has broken a premise that universities have relied upon for centuries: the assumption that strong performance usually reflects genuine competence."
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July 6, 1:18 PM
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What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
"[M]any people don’t use the time they save using AI to do less; they use the time to take on new tasks."
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July 6, 1:11 PM
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"AI personality is a design problem Right now it’s an accidental byproduct of AI alignment. It could be an interface we build deliberately."
"Something strange happens when you look closely at the AI assistants we use every day. Two of them can be built on the same underlying model, trained the same way, given the same instructions, and still feel like two different people."
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July 6, 1:04 PM
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Discover how course design as an act of care strengthens faculty support, improves student engagement, and creates more inclusive learning experiences.
"Designing with care means anticipating needs, reducing barriers, and creating environments where both faculty and students feel seen and supported."
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July 3, 4:06 PM
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"Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath’s recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation warning about the rapid expansion of EdTech and the explosion of student screen time should spark an important national conversation about learning, cognition, and the future of education."
"Every environment trains the brain for something. The issue is not whether children use technology. The issue is whether that technology strengthens the capacities human beings most need to learn, adapt, create and thrive."
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July 3, 3:28 PM
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"Across the ADDIE framework, AI supports ideation, drafting, summarization, and pattern recognition, while instructional designers remain responsible for pedagogical alignment, accessibility, ethical review, and learner-centered decision-making."
"When viewed through the ADDIE framework, AI supports different types of work at each stage of the design process."
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Will school forbid screens like they banned smartphones? Some movements think so.