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Instead of banning the technology, schools have a unique opportunity to promote digital citizenship and authentic student engagement.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"It has become a concerning cycle in education: When any new technology becomes prevalent in our kids’ world — from TV to video games, and computers to the rise of AI — policymakers’ first instinct is to ban the technology rather than attempt to understand it."
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Today, 9:49 AM
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The cyberattack that rocked Canvas offered a lesson for higher ed: Institutions must move faster to stay ahead of emerging threats.
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"Experts at Instructure recognized earlier this year that conventional security practices were being challenged by AI-powered threats,...The company’s renewed defenses remained unfinished when the attack occurred."
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Today, 9:43 AM
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"Why making the human behind the machine visible changes what we call morally right, and what that does to the alignment of AI with human values"
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"Who do we blame when an AI makes a wrong prediction or a harmful decision? The obvious suspects are the machine itself, or the company that built it. Recent experimental research evidence points in a new direction."
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August 19, 11:19 AM
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Access to AI is not the same as readiness to use it well. This article sets out what an AI-ready workforce actually needs.
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"An AI-ready workforce is not one where everybody becomes an expert or uses AI for everything. It is one where people can make an informed call about where AI belongs in their work and where it does not."
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August 19, 11:15 AM
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AI cheating will decrease, the techlash will continue, and other predictions for the coming school year.
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"I think we’re going to see more institutional responses and more cultural responses to this. Encouraging trends include the movement toward watermarking from some of the tech giants"
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August 19, 11:09 AM
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Higher education needs a more precise definition of cheating and plagiarism in the age of generative AI--the issue is a complicated one.
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"AI-generated content is not automatically plagiarism...Students can cheat with AI, but higher education cannot respond intelligently while using one label for every form of misconduct."
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August 19, 11:04 AM
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"Four years after ChatGPT caught so many by surprise, the primary role of higher education seems to be slowing down the public’s transition to the AI era. For many faculty, this is a win. For those focused on the future, this is the biggest institutional failure since the Victorian Post Office, with its monopoly on telegraph lines, dismissed the telephone because it had plenty of messenger boys. Adoption was slowed so much there were waiting lists for a home phone line into the 1970s."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"U.S. and Canada are lagging behind the rest of the world in institutional coherence about AI and faculty support for AI. Students are frustrated."
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August 18, 2:18 PM
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Last year, the online and professional education association UPCEA urged institutions to close the gap between student expectations on institutional preparedness for online learning as part of its annual report on the Benchmarking Online Enterprises Survey.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Growth in online education is real and ongoing...but long-term sustainability depends on how well institutions align their governance structures, financial models and program strategies with their broader institutional mission."
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August 18, 2:11 PM
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The choice isn’t between distributing AI and not having it. AI is coming regardless of what anyone decides. So the real choice is between a broadly distributed capability and a concentrated one.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"There is no version of the next decade in which advanced AI is scarce and someone responsible is deciding who gets it. That world is gone. It ended without an announcement and without a vote."
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August 18, 2:07 PM
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"For three years, the conversation about AI in education for most people (a few of us pushed much further, much, much earlier) was largely about using AI in the classroom — a tool here, a chatbot there, some traffic lights, and a policy somewhere.
Now, more people (unfortunately, not everyone) have moved past that. We’re now arguing about instructional design, and beyond that about the structure of schooling itself. That’s the right altitude, and those are really the only thing that matter."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As the technology keeps developing, the honest conclusion is that we are entering something like a new industrial era, and our institutions are only beginning to notice."
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August 18, 2:02 PM
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At a gathering in Boston, ‘student senators’ proposed a first-of-its-kind national AI policy for K-12 classrooms.
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"Transparency, literacy and security were among its key provisions, and the goal is that the student-created regulations will inspire adult leaders to act in similar fashion."
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August 18, 1:58 PM
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Real microlearning is designed around how memory works—spaced, single-concept, retrieval-based lessons to increase retention.
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"Chopping a 60-minute course into 610-minute clips isn't microlearning. Real microlearning is designed around how memory works—spaced, single-concept, retrieval-based."
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Plunging assessment scores show reading skills are vanishing, with an instructor complaining his pupils can't understand basic assignments.
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“There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.”
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Adam Fein, Vice President of Academic Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at 2U, explores how online education is becoming central to university strategy and why institutional alignment and the right partnerships matter.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"As online learning takes on a bigger role, the success of an institution’s portfolio depends on more than the strength of any individual program. It requires a perspective shift, in which online strategy becomes inseparable from institutional strategy."
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"We built it to sound sure of everything. The best thing it can learn to say is “I’m not sure.”
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"[W]hat you actually get from Claude or ChatGPT is a play-by-play that tells you nothing. “Analyzing your request” or “Working on it.” Cool. You never see the one thing that matters, how it got from your question to its answer."
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"Alright, let’s talk about something that’s got everyone buzzing, from college dorms to faculty lounges: the dramatic entrance of AI into the academic world. Google, ever the titan of technology, isn’t just dipping its toes in; it’s diving headfirst with a brand-new suite of AI study tools. This isn’t some beta test tucked away in a corner; this is a full-throttle initiative, aptly named ‘Back to School 2026,’ integrating these powerful capabilities right into Gemini and Google Search. And here’s the kicker: eligible college students in the U.S. are getting a free year of Google AI Pro"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[W]hile AI makes the process of getting answers incredibly efficient, it might inadvertently make the process of learning less profound."
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August 19, 11:18 AM
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"Pretty soon, everyone is going to see that I do not belong here.
Whether it was as a student, an athlete, a teacher, and now in the business world, some version of that sentence has always run through my head."
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"The feeling that you do not belong can hang over everything you do. Every meeting and every presentation feels like a performance where you are just waiting for someone in the audience to start booing because they have finally figured out that you have no idea what the heck you are doing."
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August 19, 11:11 AM
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To serve today’s most driven students and prepare all learners for what comes next, we have to rethink long-held assumptions about education.
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"Walk into almost any classroom in America, and you’ll see a system designed for consistency: same lesson, same pace, same expectations for every student. For decades, that model has served millions well. But today’s learners are changing, and some of the most driven among them are quietly outgrowing the structure meant to support them."
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August 19, 11:07 AM
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Learn practical strategies to improve online student retention by reducing anxiety, building connection, and empowering students to persist and succeed.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"In a comprehensive study reporting post-pandemic online course discontinuation, students reported withdrawing due to the following five undermining elements: misalignment between suitability of content and online content presentation, inexpertly prepared and/or unstimulating instruction, inadequate digital skills, insufficient institutional support and personal resources, and distracting environmental factors (Kaisara 2024)."
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August 19, 10:59 AM
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"More Than 25 Years On, The First Film’s Picture Of Machine Intelligence Reads Less Like Science Fiction And More Like A Product Roadmap"
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Agent Smith does not wait to be prompted, he has an ambient goal and chases it across the environment until the state of the machine stops him.
That is the line the industry now draws between an assistant and an agent. An assistant answers when you ask. An agent takes a goal, plans a sequence of steps, and acts across your tools with limited supervision."
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August 18, 2:13 PM
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What I told Ray Kurzweil’s digital twin about why AI keeps failing in schools
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"With good intentions, we pushed AI onto schools — chatbot licenses, prompting workshops, tool rollouts — before redesigning any of the teaching and learning underneath. And the assessment underneath is, overwhelmingly, product-based.Something AI can now do better than most humans."
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August 18, 2:09 PM
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A 28-page proof of concept, built in an afternoon, that needs a math teacher to improve it
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"Most AI-in-the-classroom debate activities fail identically. The student asks a model for arguments, the model supplies them, and the reasoning the debate existed to produce never happens. The AI absorbs the authorship."
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August 18, 2:04 PM
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In new work from Common Sense Media, many teens acknowledge AI is changing how they think, with schools providing few safeguards.
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"70% now use AI for schoolwork, but that fewer than one in three say a teacher has ever talked with them about using it safely. And just one in four have discussed with a teacher how to tell whether AI-generated information is accurate."
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August 18, 2:01 PM
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Multiple-choice quizzes feel like retrieval practice, but they often measure recognition instead. Here's how to fix the format.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"[A] multiple-choice item does not necessarily test retrieval at all. It often tests recognition, and recognition is an easier, shallower, and much more forgiving process than recall. The result is a quiz that looks like retrieval practice, scores like success, and predicts performance poorly."
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August 17, 11:11 AM
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Anthropic has revealed how Claude is able to secretly watermark AI-written text, and it has everything to do with word choices.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:
"There are situations where Claude's watermarking solution might not be effective."
"OpenAI intends to ditch the prompts and features, betting that its models will be able to automatically understand users’ intentions when they are on the app or site."