"Building intuitive AI products requires designing for context management"
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"Building intuitive AI products requires designing for context management"
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Today, 11:07 AM
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The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.
"AI models offer affirmations more often than people do, even for morally dubious or troubling scenarios."
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Today, 11:00 AM
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Four states have recently passed legislation to limit teaching and assessments via screens for students. So has the United States' second-largest school district.
"[T]he school board of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted unanimously to limit screen time for all grade levels, beginning in the fall, with a particular focus on eliminating it entirely for elementary-age students."
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Today, 10:55 AM
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"The share of A’s in college classes heavy on writing and coding—in other words, work more prone to artificial-intelligence use—has grown more significantly than in other classes since ChatGPT’s debut, according to a paper from the University of California, Berkeley, released Wednesday. Professors teaching AI-exposed classes gave out about 30% more A’s and fewer A-minus and B plus grades. The results suggest that students have relied on generative AI to do better in their studies, not that these classes of students are learning more, says Igor Chirikov, a senior researcher at Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education and the author.
"AI is making “A” grades easier to come by, a new study shows—and making them less useful to employers trying to size up college graduates."
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Today, 10:49 AM
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"What Is An Instructional Design Degree? An Instructional Design degree prepares professionals to create effective learning experiences for schools, businesses, and digital training environments. The field combines learning science, technology, and communication to help people gain knowledge and apply skills more effectively. For teachers transitioning into corporate learning or L&D, it offers a structured path into modern training and development roles."
"In 2026, Instructional Designers are needed beyond schools. Companies across industries hire them to support onboarding, skills training, compliance, leadership development, and digital transformation efforts."
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May 21, 11:07 AM
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"Teachers in the U.S. spend an average of seven hours per week on lesson planning alone, plus another three for students with diverse needs. That’s before grading, parent emails, IEP documentation, and the administrative overhead that has made teaching among the highest-burnout professions in the country."
"AI is saving teachers meaningful time. Whether that eases burnout depends on where the time goes."
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May 21, 10:57 AM
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The rise of artificial intelligence is prompting college students to second-guess their career paths
"College students are switching majors in due to AI concerns, with roughly 70% viewing the technology as a threat to their job prospects. Many are pivoting toward majors emphasizing critical thinking and interpersonal skills."
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May 21, 10:53 AM
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AI won't fix a broken L&D system. High-maturity teams succeed by fixing content architecture and operating models first.
"AI In Learning Is Not A Tool Upgrade But A System Shift...AI doesn't transform a broken system. It exposes and accelerates its limitations."
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May 21, 10:49 AM
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If we continue to prioritise memorisation in an age of wall-to-wall information, we send the wrong message to our students and employers. Michelle Seref offers advice on assessment that builds critical thinking skills
"The rapid rise of generative AI hasn’t made assessment obsolete, but it has made its misalignment impossible to ignore. The real question is no longer what students know, but how they think, decide, adapt and apply judgement. Yet many assessments still measure recall rather than application."
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May 20, 11:25 AM
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A comprehensive guide to online teaching strategies covering preparation, procedures, communication, and practices for effective online learning.
"By preparing to teach, and through planning and preparation, we can implement procedures and practices that build and strengthen online relationships and facilitate student success."
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May 20, 11:19 AM
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"Keri Rodrigues, a mother of five boys, knows the value of screens. For her boys, four of whom receive school accommodations, screens serve a practical purpose at school."
"Fueled by distress over the mental health impacts of too much screen time, lawmakers have begun to pass device bans and other restrictions for schools, in a rising “techlash” across state capitols."
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May 20, 11:15 AM
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These strategies have helped me get consistent work as an adjunct professor.
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May 19, 11:07 AM
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How to design governance that is serious and protective without becoming brittle or performative.
"The challenge is not simply that AI is changing quickly. It is that institutions are being asked to govern systems they do not fully understand, in environments that keep changing, under political and market pressure, with uneven information and limited administrative capacity."
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Today, 11:10 AM
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Discover practical ways educators can foster future-ready skills such as collaboration, emotional awareness, creativity, and time management.
"Future-ready skills are essential for shaping confident, capable, and compassionate individuals. While academic knowledge forms the foundation of education, these skills enable students to communicate effectively, solve problems, work collaboratively, and adapt to changing environments."
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Today, 11:03 AM
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Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are already at a dismal low.
"The debate over homework has swung back and forth for more than a century, and the tide of public opinion has shifted every few years. It’s likely to continue changing for a simple reason: Researching homework is a challenge."
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Today, 10:56 AM
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Discover how microlearning fits into blended learning, mobile learning, social learning, analytics, flow-of-work learning, and content conversion.
"Microlearning becomes far more valuable when it is treated as part of a learning ecosystem rather than as a standalone content format."
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Today, 10:50 AM
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What this year’s viral commencement backlash reveals about fear, learning, and the institutional rush toward AI.
"At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI.”
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May 21, 11:09 AM
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"Simmering student fear and anxiety over how artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the job market—and humanity—came to a boiling point during some commencement ceremonies this month."
"Nearly one-third of colleges students feel “nervous” or “anxious” about AI’s impact on their future career."
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May 21, 11:06 AM
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Evidence from Florida, home of the first statewide mandate
"70 percent of school principals—and 81 percent of middle and high school principals—believe cellphone bans have a positive impact on school climate. However, bans are less popular with students."
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May 21, 10:55 AM
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As AI becomes a bigger part of the learning experience, institutions are challenged, not just to train students, but to develop learning systems around it.
"Much of higher education remains organized around assumptions that are increasingly misaligned with how learning occurs or capability is demonstrated."
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May 21, 10:50 AM
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This article explores the three roles in L&D, and why modern professionals need to think across all three to create meaningful impact.
"One of the biggest limitations in modern L&D is not a lack of tools or technology. It is the tendency to approach learning from only one perspective."
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May 21, 10:46 AM
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In this week’s Voices of Student Success episode, The Rithm Project’s Alison Lee explores whether AI is filling critical gaps in student support—or deepening isolation on college campuses. As institutions nationwide struggle to meet growing mental health needs, more students are turning to AI for comfort, connection and advice. Now, colleges and universities are being forced to confront a once-unthinkable question: What happens when students begin opening up to AI chatbots instead of people?
"[W]hen we asked about what we call the gateway moment—the moment they started talking to AI about emotional or relational support—every single time it was about an acute moment of need."
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May 20, 11:23 AM
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A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.
"Last week, Google updated its spam policies to officially confirm that attempts to manipulate AI responses are against the company's rules."
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May 20, 11:17 AM
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A new report ranks Gen Z's top 100 dream colleges, preferred employers, and the values shaping their career decisions--including views on AI.
"The percentage of students “not using AI at all” decreased from 36 percent in 2024 to 6 percent in 2026. Half (49 percent) use it on a daily or weekly basis."
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May 20, 11:09 AM
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"We’ve all lived a version of this story. You start small — asking AI to refine an email. Then something a little harder, like writing a function in a language you barely know. Then a whole feature. Eventually you give it access to your files, your calendar, your codebase. At first it feels like an intern. Then it feels like a colleague. At some point, it even feels like the expert in the room. At first, this feels incredible. A month of work compresses into a few days."
"We’ve been focusing a lot on how to make AI better. We should also talk about the other side: is there a way to make users better through interactions with AI."
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May 19, 11:04 AM
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AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.
"The growing gap between developed and developing economies shows that AI's benefits are not spreading evenly, according to the company's data. Microsoft found a 12.1 percentage point difference in adoption between the Global North and Global South, a divide that appears to be widening as infrastructure, language support and economic barriers continue to shape who can use these tools."
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"It’s easy to assume...[that LLM] models just aren’t 'smart enough' yet. But that’s not quite right. The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s context."