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My students need real connection, not AI feedback

My students need real connection, not AI feedback | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
No AI algorithm can replace the human dialogue that helps students feel seen, challenged, and understood by their teachers.
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"We should use AI in ways that strengthen instruction without weakening connections between teachers and students"

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Should we priviledge student-teacher relationship or AI feedback?

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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:

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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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Technology get advanced.
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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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We Must Stop Using AI to ‘Level-Down’ Our Students

We Must Stop Using AI to ‘Level-Down’ Our Students | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
How AI deprived my students of the reading struggle they needed to succeed — and five better ways to use it.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In our world of quick and snappy AI solutions, the leveled text shortcut is all too easy to take, but we should not give in to temptation."

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PD for innovation: Reimagining solutions for engagement, burnout, and achievement gaps

Innovation in PD gives teachers autonomy to pursue PD that benefits their students and aligns with district priorities.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[D]istricts spent about $18,000 per teacher each year on PD, yet only three in 10 teachers reported meaningful improvement over two to three years."

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How does online deep learning occur among college students? An empirical investigation based on CoI

How does online deep learning occur among college students? An empirical investigation based on CoI | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"In the context of global digital transformation in education and post-pandemic reforms, online teaching has evolved from an emergency response into an essential instructional mode in higher education. Enhancing the quality of university students’ online learning and fostering their capacity for online deep learning (OnlineDL) have thus become key concerns in the educational field."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Although TP (teaching Presence) shows only a modest direct effect, it indirectly enhances OnlineDL through multiple mediation pathways involving CP (cognitive presence) and LP (learning presence)."

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I handed a UX review over to AI. Here’s what happened.

"AI is a powerful partner for UX reviews, not a replacement for the expert, and the accuracy comes from the expertise you feed it, not the model."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]here were problems I hadn’t spotted myself, and that was useful. But there were more that the AI, in turn, didn’t catch."

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Randomized Controlled Trials Remain the Gold Standard for Ed Tech Research

Randomized Controlled Trials Remain the Gold Standard for Ed Tech Research | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"They are simple and transparent, eliminate inherent bias and can clearly show whether version A or B of a product works best for students."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Randomized controlled trials are uniquely structured to determine whether a product’s impact is the result of the product itself or other factors."

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How To Create An eLearning Podcast That Drives Engagement

How To Create An eLearning Podcast That Drives Engagement | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Unlock new learning opportunities with an eLearning podcast. Discover how they help employees grow and develop in their careers.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"L&D leaders should also consider the balance between push and pull learning models. In a push model, podcast episodes are assigned as part of structured learning initiatives. In a pull model, learners choose content based on their interests and development goals."

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Publish or Perish: AI vs Human

Publish or Perish: AI vs Human | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Are frontier AI models beginning to write papers better than humans? I ran a comparison, and it's left me more uncertain than ever.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[W]hile an LLM like Fable can study what it believes to be examples of good human writing, it cannot replicate faithfully a process that draws on our lived experience, our biological heritage, and our emotional and cognitive responses, as much as the technical meaning behind the words."

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AI Governance for Instructional Design Teams

AI Governance for Instructional Design Teams | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn what good AI governance looks like in instructional design teams, from human review and quality controls to role clarity and risk management.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he real question is not simply whether AI is allowed. The real question is whether AI is being used in ways that improve design quality, protect judgment, reduce avoidable risk, and build stronger professional practice over time."

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Not all screen time is equal

Screen time debates should center on if individual technologies, programs, and digital learning experiences support student growth.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"With the growing movement to limit technology in schools, parents and educators are right to question how much time students spend on screens. But, as schools reconsider the role of technology in the classroom, an important distinction is often getting lost in the public conversation: Not all screen time is equal."

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Beyond Online Education: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping The Future Of Universities

Beyond Online Education: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping The Future Of Universities | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI use in higher education is reshaping the future of universities with intelligent, personalized, and data-driven learning environments.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The future university will not simply be a digital version of the traditional campus. It will be an intelligent, data-driven, highly personalized learning environment capable of adapting to the needs of every learner."

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What "friction maxxing" teaches us about IT skill development in the age of AI

Facing technical challenges helps students build the ability to actively engage with a problem and build IT skills instead of turning it AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Deliberately working through technical challenges helps students build and retain the ability to actively engage with a problem"

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The Learning Paradox: Is Technology Making Our Kids "Metacognitively Lazy"?

The Learning Paradox: Is Technology Making Our Kids "Metacognitively Lazy"? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
As we navigate the educational landscape of 2026, we find ourselves deep in what might be called the "era of the offload," surrounded by personalized systems that promise to simplify our cognitive lives.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[A]cademic success in an AI-enhanced world depends on ensuring students remain the agents of their own progress, equipped with the resilience to navigate a lifetime of independent growth."

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What Does AI Cost When We Skip the Work?

What Does AI Cost When We Skip the Work? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
This Week with EdSurge podcast examines what holds up when artificial intelligence moves fast.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he value of a degree comes from something artificial intelligence cannot replicate."

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Escaping the tech debt trap: Why governance matters more in the age of AI

A true digital campus experience requires leaders to think about how every technology decision contributes to the overall online journey.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Students move between disconnected systems, receive endless communications from multiple sources and search across numerous applications to complete tasks that should feel seamless."

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Gemini’s Guided Learning Mode From Google AI: What Educators Need To Know

Gemini’s Guided Learning Mode From Google AI: What Educators Need To Know | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Gemini’s new learning mode is built on educational science, and that helps set it apart from some of the competition in our tests.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"While many other AI learning tools are prompted to support teaching, LearnLM was built from the ground up with teaching in mind"

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AI can fake your portfolio. It can’t fake the second question.

"The artifact just became the cheapest thing in hiring. The room test is the live follow-up you can’t generate, and it’s where interviews actually get decided in 2026."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The artifact survived and the conversation did not. And the reason this matters more now than it did in 2019 is simple: the artifact used to be expensive to make, it is not anymore."

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When Sally Brings a Chinese AGI to Class in September

When Sally Brings a Chinese AGI to Class in September | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
What happens when a trillion-dollar capability is handed to everyone simultaneously, for free?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Everything schools have done about AI assumes AI is a service. Services have accounts, age gates, district contracts, content filters, audit logs. Services can be blocked at the firewall. On July 27, frontier intelligence stops being a service and becomes a file. You cannot firewall a file."

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Screen Bans Can Be Education’s Dry January — Time for a Much-Needed Reset 

Screen Bans Can Be Education’s Dry January — Time for a Much-Needed Reset  | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Cohen: Transforming technology use in schools and classrooms is so hard that an intentional break may be the only way to truly adopt a better approach.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The tendency in education policy to overcorrect is as constant as it is frustrating."

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Making Learning Stick

Making Learning Stick | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Why does some information stick, while other things seem to go in one ear and out the other?"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Decades of research have told us that things we selectively pay attention to are much more likely to be processed, because they enter into consciousness and memory...[T]he way that technology has evolved—including built-in advertising—has been about trying to capture that selective attention."

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Does Practicing on an AI Actually Work?

Does Practicing on an AI Actually Work? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"I’ve been writing for a while about academic role-playing exercises and conversational simulations that are designed to push back. I call them friction bots. When I talk to other educators about their value, especially professors, I often get the question, 'Ok, but what does the research say?'”

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Role-playing has been proven time and time again to be good for learning. Rehearsal is good for the brain, too. LLM’s are really good at mimicking human beings."

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Why L&D Teams Are Sitting On A Gold Mine Of Data They Never Use

Why L&D Teams Are Sitting On A Gold Mine Of Data They Never Use | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
This article breaks down what L&D data access could mean for how training gets designed, measured, and improved.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"This article breaks down why that data goes unused, how conversational AI analytics changes the access model, and what it means for how training gets designed, measured, and improved."

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The Language Learner And AI: Fixing The Practice Gap

The Language Learner And AI: Fixing The Practice Gap | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Here's what industry data, and months of our own usage, actually suggest is the main obstacle for a language learner, and how AI can help.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[F]ear of speaking is among the most frequently mentioned challenges for language learners. Not grammar or vocabulary, but fear."

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AI Meets ESL, and Teachers Are Intrigued

AI Meets ESL, and Teachers Are Intrigued | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Can AI chatbots support K-12 emergent bilingual learners without widening gaps?
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Experts see great potential for AI to elevate bilingual education — if it’s done right."

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Still the Teacher: How California’s AI Law Keeps You at the Center

Still the Teacher: How California’s AI Law Keeps You at the Center | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn how California's AI law shapes AI use in education and offers practical strategies for faculty to teach responsibly with AI.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AB 2370 assumes that faculty will use professional judgment when incorporating AI. One practical way to exercise that judgment is to evaluate AI tools the way you evaluate textbooks or other course materials."

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The “Engagement” Illusion: Why EdTech Research is Built on Shaky Ground

We often treat “cognitive engagement” as the holy grail of online learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"To truly understand online learning, we have to stop trusting the “illusion” of engagement and start measuring the actual mechanics of the mind."

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