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"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."
"University of Pennsylvania researchers tweaked an AI tutor to tailor the difficulty of practice problems for each student."
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"Artificial intelligence has rapidly shifted the instructional landscape. Tools that can generate explanations, draft essays, and summarize complex topics are now readily available to students. This accessibility has led some to question whether deep instructor content knowledge still holds the same importance. The answer is an unequivocal yes."
"Strong instruction in an AI-rich classroom depends on strong content knowledge"
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May 4, 12:44 PM
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"A pointed warning about the future of work and education took centre stage as the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM), UWI, Mona brought together leaders from academia and industry to confront a pressing question: is the Caribbean truly ready for the age of artificial intelligence?"
"AI is going to change everything – how we work, how we learn, how we interact. It won’t replace human talent, but those who understand AI will have a clear advantage. Our responsibility is to ensure every graduate is AI fluent, regardless of discipline.”
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"We take the ability to write for granted. It is actually quite a complex non-linear activity driven by our goals and purpose. To understand this process and how AI can support it while you maintain ownership, it’s helpful to understand the cognitive activities of writing.
Several cognitive models explain the writing process, and the core of most models is based on Flower and Hayes’ cognitive activities of writing (1981). The model identifies the mental operations that underlie writing as distinct activities: planning, translation (text production), and reviewing."
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"For years, progress in artificial intelligence has been defined by scale. Bigger models, more data, longer context windows. But a quieter shift is now underway, and it’s one that may prove even more transformative. Instead of building a single, ever-larger model, researchers are beginning to focus on how multiple AI systems can work together. This emerging paradigm is known as agent swarms. And it signals a move away from isolated intelligence toward collaborative intelligence, where coordination, communication, and adaptation matter just as much as raw capability."
"Agent swarms aren’t just multiple models running in parallel. The defining feature is interaction. Each agent operates with partial information, contributes to a shared goal, and adjusts its behavior based on others."
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April 30, 12:58 PM
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Google offers various AI-powered programs, training, and tools to help advance your skills. Develop AI skills and view available resources.
"Explore foundational concepts in artificial intelligence. Learn how AI works and how to effectively use it in your daily work."
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"AI-powered technologies are increasingly being developed for educational purposes to contribute to students' academic performance and overall better learning outcomes. This exploratory review uses the PRISMA approach to describe how the effectiveness of AI-driven technologies is being measured, as well as the roles attributed to teachers, and the theoretical and practical contributions derived from the interventions."
"Findings from 48 articles highlighted that learning outcomes were more aligned with the optimization of AI systems, mostly nested in a computer science perspective, and did not consider teachers in an active role in the research. Most studies proved to be atheoretical and practical contributions were limited to enhancing the design of the AI system."
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Why your AI tools aren't delivering the ROI you were promised — and what to do about it
"[I]n some organisations, AI is driving unprecedented increases in productivity and with it employee growth and satisfaction. In others, AI is cited as the primary cause of reduced productivity and with it growing employee 'brain drain', frustration and attrition."
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Listening to faculty concerns about generative AI can help institutions respond with more clarity, precision, and trust.
"[B]efore institutional leaders ask faculty to do more with GenAI, a more useful first step might be to ask a simpler question: What exactly are faculty worried about?"
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The old learning curve is being broken by machines—and apprenticeship could be a central strategy to deliberately rebuild it. That’s what National Apprenticeship Week should be about.
"Artificial intelligence is automating many entry-level tasks that once allowed novice workers to learn. The lower rungs of the career ladder, where people made mistakes, developed judgment, and built confidence, are weakening."
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How can AI improve student thinking? Explore powerful, classroom-tested strategies that turn AI into a debate partner, tutor, and catalyst for deeper learning.
"[I]f you use AI to replace your mind, you’re training the model. If you use it to extend your mind, you’re training yourself."
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"One of the bigger challenges for product and design teams right now is a type of UX debt nobody is tracking — patterns that still function but no longer justify their existence.
We’ve spent years perfecting dashboards, data entry forms, search flows, filter sidebars, setup wizards, notification feeds, FAQ pages, onboarding tours. All built on the same assumption: the human is the one doing the work.
Every one of those screens exists because a designer answered the same question: “What does the user need to do here?”
And right now, AI is replacing the reason each one exists."
"The interfaces that survive will be those that make human judgment more powerful — not those that require humans to simulate computers."
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April 28, 12:01 PM
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If we design AI systems that shortcut the learning process, we risk undermining the very purpose and value of education.
"AI is rapidly reshaping education, but not always in ways that support learning. A growing number of AI tools promise to “help” students by doing assignments, writing papers, solving problem sets, or even completing exams automatically.
While these tools may appear convenient, they raise an important question: Are they removing barriers to learning, or removing learning itself?"
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Whether students vote with a ballot or with their feet, the outcome of the vote sometimes has unintended consequences. Voting offers limited information, and that’s true whether voting with your ballot or with your feet. When you chose Smith over Jones, was it because of a policy position, a party identity, personal familiarity, or because you liked their name better? And if it was based on a policy position—most votes aren’t, at least directly—did you understand the nuances behind the policy?
"Conflicting desires play out beyond electoral politics. I’m seeing it in the push-pull of students wanting a more robust on-campus college experience while simultaneously crowding into online classes. The desire for a robust on-campus experience conflicts with the desire for a convenient schedule."
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"Artificial intelligence is rapidly progressing and poised to reshape the workforce in the near future. The higher education sector is in a unique position, as both an employer of millions of workers and a system that prepares students for the labor force.
At the annual ASU+GSV Summit last week, four college leaders talked to Higher Ed Dive to weigh in on two questions: What about AI’s use in higher education are you most excited for? And what has you most concerned?"
"[P]eople have to be thoughtful about deploying AI. Think of it as an amplifier. The largest amplification capacity for any human being is an AI agent."
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"With critical thinking skills on the line I built a real-time AI collaborator, Thia — with vision and voice capabilities to keep early ideas raw, the loop tight, and the thinking mine."
"AI is making light work of building, but there are some spaces in the design process where I believe deep thinking is sacred, where I didn’t want AI to encroach upon."
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"What will today’s leaders wish they’d learned about AI five years earlier? The answer: that AI is no longer a fringe IT project but a core strategic imperative, and that many basic lessons about data, talent, and governance need to be front-and-center. AI adoption has already accelerated faster than many executives expected, creating a “regret gap” between early movers and late adopters. In fact, 88% of companies report regular AI use, yet many still struggle to integrate it into daily operations."
"Five years from now, successful leaders will look back wishing they had treated AI as a business priority sooner – not as a passing tech fad."
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Researchers looked at more than 150,000 prompts from more than 4,400 K-12 teachers interacting with AI. Here's what they found.
"Teachers, the research suggests, are generally using the tool to help them build curriculum content and as a sounding board, all with an eye toward better helping students."
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April 30, 12:57 PM
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Experts say going back to school for a graduate degree is one way to hedge against a rapidly changing labor market.
"Typically, enrollment in graduate school increases during recessions as workers seek to advance or to move to another industry with better career prospects or pay. Today, more people in a survey said they plan to go back to school within a year, even though the economy is doing well."
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"If (like ~90% of us) you’re using AI to generate learning content — quiz questions, scenarios, feedback, objectives, anything — you’ve already stopped being a creator in the traditional sense. You’re not the person writing the quiz question anymore: you’re the person deciding whether the quiz question is good enough to put in front of a learner.
That’s not a small change: it’s a fundamental redefinition of what it means to be an L&D professional."
"The emerging consensus is that the bottleneck isn’t AI capability — it’s AI quality assurance. And this problem is heading straight for L&D."
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"Driven by a bottom-up partnership between the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and the Division of Digital Learning, the University of Central Florida established an evolving campus infrastructure of policies, training, and a national conference to guide the ethical and effective integration of generative artificial intelligence into teaching and learning."
"The bottom-up approach used by the DDL and FCTL to kick-start the development of resources and programming on AI use in teaching and learning has evolved into a strong foundation of faculty support for this rapidly advancing technology."
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"Generative artificial intelligence is pushing teaching and learning away from a model centered on producing answers and academic artifacts and toward one that places greater weight on process, judgment, reflection, and applied thinking. In conversations with campus leaders, three priorities emerged."
"It's important to create a safe space for our students and for our faculty as well, where they can share their perspectives, concerns, fears, ideas about generative AI."
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Researchers found adjusting AI systems to be more warm and friendly to users would result in an "accuracy trade-off".
"AI chatbots trained to be warm and friendly when interacting with users may also be more prone to inaccuracies, new research suggests."
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"AI tools are no longer a relatively simple search engine that is driven by marketing metrics to help us conduct our research. Rather, with AI we are using more sophisticated tools that conduct research and seek answers to our prompting while making source-selection decisions, contextual settings and semantic subtleties that impact the values expressed in the results."
"Many of us utilize AI daily in our higher education work, yet we may not have assessed the ethical and human-centered nature of the tool we have selected and trained through our prompts."
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Insights about AI in the classroom from three education conferences I attended in California.
"We all know we’re supposed to check what AI spits out. But Victoria Yaneva, director of data science and AI at the National Board of Medical Examiners, said there’s growing evidence that humans are getting worse at doing so. People who are enthusiastic about AI are more likely to miss errors, she said. AI skeptics are better at catching them."
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When used in the right way AI seems to help test scores and save teacher and staff time, say Syracuse University's Jeff Rubin and Andrew Joncas
"Syracuse University has gone all in on the AI revolution, deploying Claude AI to 30,000+ students, faculty members, and staff. Along the way, school leaders say they've developed effective AI use cases both in the classroom and beyond, ranging from test practice to course schedule management."
This looks like an interesting study.