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The hidden cost of AI design tools - What we’re outsourcing without noticing

"The seduction of the blank prompt: The cognitive atrophy of instant gratification"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[I]n our rush towards efficiency, we are outsourcing something far more valuable than tasks. We are outsourcing our thinking."

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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education?

Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond

 

Edited by Joseph Rene Corbeil & Maria Elena Corbeil (2025)

 

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology!

 

If you are designing a course that addresses generative AI in education, this award-winning volume provides a research-driven, classroom-ready foundation. Rather than offering hype or fear, this book helps educators:

  • Ground AI integration in learning theory and research
  • Address academic integrity with thoughtful, practical strategies
  • Redesign assessment for an AI-enabled world
  • Explore ethics, bias, privacy, and institutional responsibility
  • Leverage AI to enhance critical thinking and digital literacy


Bookended by historical and forward-looking analyses of AI in education, the chapters move beyond surface-level discussions to provide evidence-based approaches for real classrooms—K–12, higher education, and professional learning environments.

This text is ideal for:

  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
  • Curriculum & Instruction courses
  • Educational Technology programs
  • Higher education faculty development
  • School technology coordinators and talent development professionals

Adopting a GenAI textbook for an upcoming semester?

We invite you to request an inspection copy and explore how this resource can support your students in navigating AI with skill, ethics, and informed judgment.

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Award-winning "Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI" offers research-based, practical guidance for educators seeking to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into their courses—request an inspection copy: https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781032688602.

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Report: AI Will Reshape Work More than Replace It, but Global Impact Is Uneven

Report: AI Will Reshape Work More than Replace It, but Global Impact Is Uneven | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Student Agency: You had the power all along

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[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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An illustrated guide to resisting "AI is inevitable" in education

An illustrated guide to resisting "AI is inevitable" in education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"“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…."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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The Best Defense Against AI Cheating (opinion)

The Best Defense Against AI Cheating (opinion) | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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The Connected Campus: Building Higher Education's Future

The Connected Campus: Building Higher Education's Future | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A connected campus supports improved learning experiences, campus operations, and decision-making with secure interoperability across systems and resources.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Innovative universities are building ecosystems that emphasize interoperability and security to deliver rich learning experiences."

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Protecting Children in the Age of Generative AI

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[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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April 13, 12:12 PM
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Protecting Higher Ed's Academic Value in the AI Age Free Playbook

Protecting Higher Ed's Academic Value in the AI Age Free Playbook | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
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.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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April 10, 12:12 PM
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A new need-to-know for the AI classroom

A new need-to-know for the AI classroom | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
In an AI-rich classroom where ideas are abundant and answers are cheap, the scarce resource is not information--it is ownership.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"While the Need to Know list is a classic for identifying knowledge gaps, AI can act as a Socratic mirror, reflecting a student’s latent interests back to them until they recognize a personal connection to the driving question."

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April 10, 12:08 PM
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GenAI as a teaching colleague in assessment: a case study

GenAI as a teaching colleague in assessment: a case study | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
GenAI can be a useful tool in assessment – if used intentionally. Find out what an intelligent dashboard can do for your students’ relationship to GenAI
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Students were noticeably more motivated and participated more, as the tool engaged them and helped them enhance their work."

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April 10, 11:58 AM
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‘AI turns the classroom from structured event into improv class’

‘AI turns the classroom from structured event into improv class’ | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Rethinking the role of the teacher builds on alternatives to scripted material, such as studio-style sessions, flipped problem-based work, team-based clinics, Socratic debates, in-class case simulations and live data analysis
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Relinquishing top‑down control and adapting ourselves to AI now being embedded in education will require a rewiring of norms and bravery."

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What is AGI? When Will we Achieve it? What Does it Mean for education?

What is AGI? When Will we Achieve it? What Does it Mean for education? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"What constitutes general intelligence? What abilities do machines currently have (natural language, basic reasoning, some creativity) and what don’t they have (ability to apply learning from one domain to another, perceive, plan a response, respond, memory, long-term planning, common sense, empathy, resilience, sense of morality, sentience, consciousness, more)?"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he most important skills students need in an AI world is keep learning, keep changing and how to keep a 'flexible mind'”

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Social media on trial

"Social media companies are finally facing legal consequences for their toxic design philosophy. In March 2026, a California jury found in favour of a plaintiff (identified by the court-protected name “KGM” or “Kaley”) who had sued Meta and Google for deliberately targeting children like her with addictive design."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A truth, shocking even for those who have long been worried about the toxic design practices used at social media companies, is emerging: children in adverse circumstances and abusive homes are particularly vulnerable when it comes to poorly designed social media products."

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The quest to build a better AI tutor

The quest to build a better AI tutor | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"University of Pennsylvania researchers tweaked an AI tutor to tailor the difficulty of practice problems for each student."

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What schools need to know about accessibility compliance as ADA deadline looms

What schools need to know about accessibility compliance as ADA deadline looms | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Accessibility compliance ensures students, parents, and community members with disabilities can properly and effectively access content.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Integrating AI into the School Curriculum: Experience of teacher training in a distance learning environment

"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.'"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters

What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A maxim I’ve oft repeated for our AI era is that if a task can be automated, then it will.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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13 AI Skills To Equip Your Workforce For An AI-Driven Future

13 AI Skills To Equip Your Workforce For An AI-Driven Future | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
This guide breaks down the 13 essential AI skills and a strategic training plan to help your workforce thrive in an AI-powered world.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"What was cutting-edge yesterday feels like standard practice today and will be outdated tomorrow."

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'Double-edged sword': Montana campuses prepare for AI-driven future

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“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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Gallup: Gen Z growing more negative toward AI

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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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Why the Social Media Addiction Case Isn’t Over Yet

Why the Social Media Addiction Case Isn’t Over Yet | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"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."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"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."

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Generative AI now has more students rethinking their majors

Generative AI now has more students rethinking their majors | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
More than 40% of bachelor’s degree students said generative AI has caused them to consider changing their major.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Workforce disruptions caused by generative AI have some students rethinking their majors with one analysis characterizing higher education’s relationship with AI as 'both promising and complex.'”

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A Simple Weekly Question That Adds Curiosity and Critical Thinking to Online Courses

A Simple Weekly Question That Adds Curiosity and Critical Thinking to Online Courses | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Boost student engagement in online courses with a simple weekly discussion question that strengthens critical thinking, instructor presence, and participation in asynchronous learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In the structured world of online education, even a single weekly question can have a real effect on engagement."

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New Report: Seven Myths of AI Use - A Critical Perspective on Generative AI

New Report: Seven Myths of AI Use - A Critical Perspective on Generative AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"These days, people can hardly use the Internet without running into generative AI—yet many everyday beliefs about “how AI works” are inaccurate in ways that matter especially for education"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[M]any of today’s problems with generative AI tools stem from widespread misconceptions about how these systems work—and how people interpret their outputs."

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April 9, 3:52 PM
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Interactivity In Learning: Why Clicks Don’t Count

Interactivity In Learning: Why Clicks Don’t Count | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn what real interactivity in learning actually means—and how to move beyond clicks and quizzes to design meaningful learning experiences.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[A] lot of what we label as "interactive" in eLearning is really just reactive. Click. Reveal. Next. That's not interaction. That's polite participation."

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AI In EdTech: A 4-Step Framework For Transparent Use

AI In EdTech: A 4-Step Framework For Transparent Use | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Here is a reusable editorial framework ensuring the use of AI in Edtech is transparent, accountable, and subject to rigorous oversight.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI can accelerate educational content creation, but only if teams pair it with rigorous human oversight and public accountability."