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AI may make it easier to manipulate athletic performance, but students often underestimate how easily it can be exposed
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As AI becomes increasingly abundant and continuously available, institutional governance must evolve accordingly.
"The challenge is not that institutions are moving too quickly towards AI adoption, but that higher education is approaching AI primarily as a technology implementation problem rather than as a structural transformation of learning, and hence how institutional value is defined and operationalized."
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"Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how learning is assessed in higher education, raising important questions about what students learn and how they are expected to demonstrate that learning. Based on a 2026 survey of 438 faculty and staff, this EDUCAUSE report explores how educators are responding in practice, from evolving assessment design to changing expectations around AI use and academic integrity."
"The findings reveal growing momentum around the use of AI in assessment alongside real uncertainty, highlighting both new opportunities and emerging challenges."
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"Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher’s union in the United States, has now launched a major campaign calling on schools to keep AI and hardware like iPads out of elementary classrooms."
"The second-largest teacher's union in the United States is calling for a sweeping ban on AI in elementary classrooms."
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Today, 11:51 AM
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Discover how faculty can use AI as a reflective partner to design sustainable academic workflows, manage workload, prevent burnout, and support work-life balance.
"In online teaching environments especially, work expands quietly and persistently. There is always another post to read, another draft to refine, another student in need of reassurance. Over time, this expansion erodes boundaries. When boundaries erode, reflective practice gives way to reactive performance."
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June 5, 11:07 AM
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No AI algorithm can replace the human dialogue that helps students feel seen, challenged, and understood by their teachers.
"We should use AI in ways that strengthen instruction without weakening connections between teachers and students"
Should we priviledge student-teacher relationship or AI feedback?
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June 5, 11:04 AM
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If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
"If you use AI a lot, you probably have noticed how much AI writing is around you (frequent AI users have historically done quite well identifying AI writing), if not, I promise you it is much more than you think."
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"It has been two years since Co-Intelligence, my book about AI, was published, and it was successful beyond what I could have hoped (it was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 25+ languages, with the biggest markets being the Netherlands and Korea). I don’t think the book is out-of-date, exactly, but it was written about a world of chatbots and earlier AI models. In that world, working with an AI was a cooperative exercise, involving prompting a chatbot back-and-forth, adding your own knowledge and skepticism as you went. Humans were at the center, chatbots were your helpers."
"When should you refuse AI’s help, even when it is offering? When should you hand over the keys entirely? And what do you do when the AI is no longer just your assistant, but your reader, your critic, and the gatekeeper standing between your work and its audience?"
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June 4, 9:50 AM
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Successful AI adoption in K–12 districts begins with a strong, secure data foundation.
“AI systems are only as reliable as the data they access, so districts need governance, privacy and data protection strategies in place from the beginning.”
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June 4, 9:47 AM
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There are no easy answers about AI implementation in schools. These questions can help you and your students start a conversation.
"[A] school’s AI policy needs to be deeply aligned with the school’s values. And that requires thoughtful, school-wide conversations about those values."
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The advent of generative AI plus questions about the relevance of higher education call for a closer look at how critical thinking skills are taught and measured. Kate Williams offers ways to level up traditional assessment formats
"Formative assessment is a powerful first step in guiding the development of critical thinking skills and its interactive, low-stakes nature makes it relatively immune to inappropriate AI use."
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School districts are adopting AI policies more than ever, but a lack of resources, funding and expertise has some still concerned.
"While schools have made progress in technology adoption — from artificial intelligence guidelines to vetting education technology — they still struggle with the lack of resources, funding and expertise"
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As education leaders start to craft an AI policy that is both practical and flexible enough to evolve with this fast-changing technology, there is at least one principle that should be foundational: AI should serve to augment human critical thinking and creativity but never replace human interaction and decision-making.
"Responsible AI use depends on training and engagement: Teacher professional development and student-centered AI use should prioritize critical thinking, creativity, and personalized learning over cheating prevention."
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"[A]s the country wrestles with restricting screens, some parents and disability advocates are beginning to express concerns about whether students who rely on accessibility tools are being excluded from the rulemaking process. Some of these advocates say they agree that new tech restrictions are necessary, but they are calling for careful consideration in how these rules are written."
“We've got to make sure we're not stomping on kids that are actually utilizing these devices for really important reasons.”
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Teachers and students need agency as they are voicing concern and disagreement over administrators’ edtech purchasing decisions.
"Teachers are the closest source for identifying what is missing from the classroom, and when school leaders start there rather than at the vendor’s value proposition, the solution space opens up in ways that serve schools better."
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"There is a sound a certain generation can still replay without effort. The dial-up modem shrieking, that wavering hum like two machines introducing themselves awkwardly, then a click, then silence. After the click, the internet left. Not minimized. Not pushed to the background. Gone, somewhere else, and you were returned to the physical room you were sitting in, with the slowing fan of the computer and the wall clock suddenly audible again."
"Logging off was an action. It had a verb. You closed something, and the day resumed its other texture."
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"AI-infused apps are different from traditional software. Apps that embed large language models, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or tool-calling workflows bring their own characteristics. They combine deterministic code with probabilistic intelligence. This creates new failure modes that standard testing practices cannot fully address."
"Reliable AI delivery isn't either/or—it's both/and. Test conventionally for functionality. Evaluate probabilistically for quality. Deploy with dual-discipline confidence."
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June 5, 11:08 AM
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AI platforms are not replacing traditional eLearning systems, but are offering smarter content, and personalized and faster support.
"Instead of pushing everyone through the same tunnel, AI-supported learning can behave more like a coach. It notices patterns. It responds. It adapts. And that is where the old eLearning model begins to look limited."
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June 5, 11:05 AM
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Campuses are spending big on AV technology and wondering why it still doesn't just work. The answer isn't better gear. It's a better foundation.
"AV reliability starts with infrastructure: Unreliable classroom technology is often an infrastructure problem, not a hardware problem."
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June 5, 11:02 AM
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What new data tells us about the complex impact of AI on L&D (mid-2026)
"The AI debate is usually black and white — it’s either saving us or ruining us. The reality is less convenient: AI’s impact on our work and our roles isn’t good or bad, it’s both, at the same time."
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June 5, 10:55 AM
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What I mean by "Don't Grade the Output, Grade the Thinking" (its not just process based learning).
"[G]enerative AI didn’t create the gap between learning process and academic product. That gap was always there, AI just made it impossible to ignore."
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June 4, 9:49 AM
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As districts face tighter budgets, cyber risk and artificial intelligence adoption questions, technology leaders are putting measurable impact at the center of purchasing decisions.
"When technology works, teachers can keep teaching; when it doesn’t, learning loses momentum."
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June 4, 9:46 AM
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As AI accelerates how certification programs are built, the real challenge is how to overcome the resistance that slows teams down.
"The resistance to AI is rarely about the technology itself. It stems from concerns around control, trust, and uncertainty."
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June 3, 12:41 PM
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"university degree has long been the world’s most trusted signal of advanced skills, but as AI becomes embedded in learning, that signal is coming under new pressure. Students say AI is improving their grades, while educators are becoming less confident they can verify how that work is produced"
"The solution to AI in HE is not more software. It is ‘knowing your student’ (KYS). The idea borrows from the banking sector’s ‘Know Your Customer’ regulatory and compliance process used to combat fraud. Banks...build contextual understanding over time: patterns, histories, habits, inconsistencies and relationships"
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With AI’s rapid integration into workplaces and higher ed, the humanities have a critical role to play in establishing the human aspects of AI use.
"Ethical reasoning, cultural awareness and human judgment provide the frameworks needed to ensure AI enhances human potential rather than diminishes it."
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June 3, 12:31 PM
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AI literacy can help protect students against the dangers of AI. Having students interrogate AI is one of the best ways there is to build up their cognitive defense systems.
"AI is being sold as a product that increases productivity and even creativity. The only way to articulate its dangers is to engage in research."
"A recent Sports Illustrated article described how some high school football players are using artificial intelligence to fabricate highlight plays in recruiting videos. Generative tools can now insert touchdowns, tackles, or explosive runs that never actually occurred, creating a misleading picture of an athlete’s performance."