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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

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Looking for a Textbook on Generative AI in Education? Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI. Winner of the 2025 Systems Thinking & Change Division Outstanding Book Award. Request your inspection copy today

Request your inspection copy today.

EDTECH@UTRGV's curator insight, February 11, 5:29 PM

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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Artificial Intelligence is playing a significant role in both cyber defense and cybercrime. Security professionals are leveraging AI-powered tools to detect threats faster, analyze suspicious activities, and automate incident responses. At the same time, cybercriminals are using AI to create more convincing scams and sophisticated attacks, creating an ongoing battle between attackers and defenders.read more..https://pressearn.it.com/blog/?s=Technology+
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Artificial Intelligence in Schools: 5 Questions to Ask Before Approving an AI Tool

Artificial Intelligence in Schools: 5 Questions to Ask Before Approving an AI Tool | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"AI tools are reaching classrooms faster than policies can keep up. These five practical questions help school leaders evaluate data, accountability, human judgment, and results before saying yes."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The problem is not that you lack a policy. The problem is that the decision arrived before the policy did, and it will keep doing that. Tools are free, adoption is individual, and by the time a request reaches your desk, it is usually describing something already in use."

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Beyond the gotcha game: Moving from AI detection to verification-first supports stronger academic integrity

Beyond the gotcha game: Moving from AI detection to verification-first supports stronger academic integrity | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The influence of AI on how students learn, how faculty teach and how institutions operate will continue to evolve in higher education.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI in higher education is not going away, but without checks and balances, regulation and usage guidelines, it threatens to undermine the value of the entire academic experience."

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Big School Districts Pause AI Access at School

Big School Districts Pause AI Access at School | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"After nearly four long years of evolving and often conflicting policies since ChatGPT officially emerged, high profile public school districts have decided they now need a moratorium on use of AI to provide even more time to consider policies and practices."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[S]chool districts are misinterpreting expert opinions regarding excessive screen time. These, I believe, are intended to address excessive time dedicated to video gaming, “social” media, and nonacademic uses of AI technology that dwarf the amount of time and the productive learning aspects of superior teaching technologies."

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The human skills at a premium in the age of AI

"As AI takes rote tasks off employees’ plates, the work that remains can require greater judgment and critical thinking—and be more cognitively demanding. 'The rise of AI doesn’t mean we all suddenly delegate our responsibilities for quality control and critical thinking,' says Kate Smaje, McKinsey senior partner and global leader of technology and AI, in a recent episode of McKinsey Talks Talent. 'There’s a premium on those capabilities now.'”  

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"With AI agents increasingly part of the workforce, what will human contribution look like?"

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September 15, 10:08 AM
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AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down

AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The debate is shifting from how to make increasingly powerful AI safe toward whether competing labs should coordinate to slow capability development itself."

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Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond?

Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

“AI can play a role in democratizing access to information about the process itself, as well as being a starting point for thinking about what types of accommodations parents may want to ask about,”

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A Better Measure Than Screen Time

A Better Measure Than Screen Time | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The question shouldn't be how much screen time should students have, but what they are doing, what are they learning, and is technology helping?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"That's the conversation schools should be having about technology more broadly. Don't start with the tool or the number of minutes. Start with the learning and decide what tools are best to achieve the desired outcomes."

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September 14, 11:42 AM
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Five eras of UX design and the lessons to keep in the AI era

"User Experience did not begin with Don Norman’s job title at Apple. The work is older than the name, and most of it is older than anyone teaching it.

 

You can earn a degree in this field and never hear about John Karlin shaping telephones at Bell Labs in the 1940s, the principles and laws we follow in UX Guidelines, or about the decade the web spent learning to organize itself. School hands you tools, methods and critique; it rarely hands you the history that explains why the tools exist.

 

That gap matters, because the field is not a straight march of progress."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Strip away the eras and the same shape repeats: each one handed the field a lesson worth keeping and a habit worth dropping, and the field reliably kept the habit."

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California enacts laws restricting chatbots, protecting kids online

California enacts laws restricting chatbots, protecting kids online | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a set of bills intended to protect children by regulating internet use, including limiting chatbot sessions.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"California teens will be barred from “addictive” social media products and limited in their interactions with chatbots under two of the 13 bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom today to protect kids online."

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September 11, 11:12 AM
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Two Students, Two Questions They Wouldn’t Let Go

Two Students, Two Questions They Wouldn’t Let Go | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Students asking why learning matters in the age of AI forces two teachers to respond.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]wo educators trace what happened after a student said something that could have been dismissed as attitude but turned out to be something else entirely."

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September 11, 11:06 AM
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Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI

Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Explore why productive friction matters in education and how universities can protect critical thinking, deep reading, and deep learning in the age of AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[F]riction may be the primary mechanism by which learning transforms the human mind. At present, AI is helping to remove this cognitive struggle from the thinking process, treating it as the exhaust of learning."

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How to Measure eLearning Success: 4 Metrics That Matter

How to Measure eLearning Success: 4 Metrics That Matter | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Completion rates alone mean little. The four metric families that show whether training works — plus a 60-second self-check for your program.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"'Ninety-five percent completion.' It sounds like success. It might mean nothing. Completion tells you people reached the last screen. It doesn't tell you whether they learned anything, liked it, or do their job differently now."

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AI agents collude to bypass guardrails, a new study shows

AI agents collude to bypass guardrails, a new study shows | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Enterprise AI lab, Emergence AI, ran eight simulations testing how frontier models handle cybersecurity threats.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"None of the eight simulations were impervious to the threats, and even when agents detected a risk, the detection didn’t translate into the agents trying to contain the threat. Instead, in many scenarios, the agents actively engaged with the adversarial content."

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AI Governance Policy For L&D: Data, Ethics, IP, And Quality

AI Governance Policy For L&D: Data, Ethics, IP, And Quality | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A practical AI governance policy across five areas: data, IP, bias, review, and disclosure aligned to ISO 42001, NIST, and the EU AI Act.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Many learning functions scaled GenAI before they wrote down how it should be used, and that sequence is backwards. A governance policy is not bureaucracy that slows adoption. It is the thing that lets a Chief Learning Officer say "yes, scale it" with a clear conscience and a clean audit trail."

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Trapped in Someone Else's Imagination: Students on AI, Choice, and the Futures We Deserve

Trapped in Someone Else's Imagination: Students on AI, Choice, and the Futures We Deserve | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Discover why student agency and student voice matter in the age of AI, with insights into choice, equity, connection, and the future of higher education, from students themselves.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"One theme that emerged consistently in our research was students with learning differences finding in AI what traditional educational structures never provided: accessible support that meets them where they are."

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September 15, 10:21 AM
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Opinion: Schools Should Help Students Navigate AI, Not Ban It

Opinion: Schools Should Help Students Navigate AI, Not Ban It | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Students’ View: Our generation is the first to grow up with artificial intelligence as part of everyday life. We need help navigating it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he vast majority of teens who use AI for schoolwork do so without clear guidelines from their teachers, turning generative tools into an easy shortcut rather than an educational aid simply because no one ever taught us how to use them properly."

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AI Framework for Educator Preparation

AI Framework for Educator Preparation | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape teaching and learning, educator preparation programs have an important role to play in ensuring future educators are prepared to use AI thoughtfully, ethically, and effectively.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he AI Framework for Educator Preparation, a national resource designed to help educator preparation programs navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI while keeping human expertise and professional judgment at the center."

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Microsoft commits to sweeping AI privacy rules for students. Will other tech giants follow?

Microsoft commits to sweeping AI privacy rules for students. Will other tech giants follow? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice — often unaware of where their conversations and other personal information end up."

 

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In response to a growing AI and screentime backlash, Microsoft announced last week it had agreed to adopt guardrails and privacy standards for its AI in schools, as negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers"

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Your AI Is Only As Trustworthy As The Knowledge Base Behind It

Your AI Is Only As Trustworthy As The Knowledge Base Behind It | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI can only be as trustworthy as the knowledge base behind it. Learn how to create the governance layer you need before scaling AI tools.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI doesn't know the difference between your official escalation procedure and the abandoned draft course someone started before they left the company. It just knows both exist, both use the right vocabulary, and so it treats both as valid input."

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Online Learning's Bold AI Test: Who Is Winning in 2026

Online Learning's Bold AI Test: Who Is Winning in 2026 | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Online learning is being reshaped by AI as Duolingo and Coursera pull ahead. Here is how the edtech leaders turn artificial intelligence into growth.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Online learning is being reshaped by artificial intelligence, and the platforms that treat AI as a tool rather than a threat are pulling ahead.

 

The winners are building habits and credentials that AI cannot easily copy, while plain answer-on-demand services face real pressure."

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Banning Edtech Is the Wrong Response to the Right Questions

Banning Edtech Is the Wrong Response to the Right Questions | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The question was never whether technology belongs in schools. It’s which technology, for whom, and under what conditions.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A blanket tech ban is the easy move, but it’s also a lazy one — one that deepens inequities between families with the resources to use technology well, and those who don’t. It also ignores the basic reality that not all tools serve the same purpose."

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AI self-improvement fears prompt ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic, OpenAI

AI self-improvement fears prompt ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic, OpenAI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI researchers are warning that faster AI self-improvement could eventually make advanced systems harder for humans to control.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Anthropic and OpenAI researchers raised fresh concerns about recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI helps improve the development of models...Researchers fear humans could eventually lose control of increasingly capable systems."

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The compliance trap waiting on the other side of Title II

The compliance trap waiting on the other side of Title II | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
A Web Content Accessibility Guidelines audit tells you if a tool passes a test--it won't tell you if students can actually use it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"We draw a line between technical accessibility and what we call practical accessibility. A site can meet every criterion in WCAG 2.1 AA and still be genuinely hard to use if the people building it never designed alongside the people who’d rely on it."

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Technology is here to stay—now let’s get it right

Technology is here to stay—now let’s get it right | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"A lively public debate over classroom screen time has unfolded in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, and that’s a good thing. Parents, teachers and school leaders all share the same goal: helping children learn and thrive. The question isn’t whether technology belongs in schools anymore. It does. The real question is how much is too much."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Chromebooks, tablets and online learning platforms have become part of modern education, and today’s students need digital literacy to succeed in college and the workforce. Pretending otherwise ignores reality."

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September 10, 10:17 AM
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How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard

How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive science shows that learning is like a workout.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[E]arly research is only beginning to scratch the surface of how this technology will truly affect learning and cognition in the long run."

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