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How AI actually works: 15 things everyone should understand

From pattern recognition to alignment failures, a clear-eyed guide to what's actually happening inside the AI systems reshaping work, media, and daily life
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he gap between what AI can do and what people believe it's doing creates real problems. People anthropomorphize systems that have no inner experience. They trust outputs that are confidently wrong. They assume AI is "thinking" when it's doing something quite different."

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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.

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  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
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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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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking | Nature

How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking | Nature | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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"Some studies suggest that AI tools can help people to learn if, rather than supplying ready-baked answers, they give feedback or tasks that encourages students to think and problem-solve. 'It’s about how we structure the task'”

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Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far

"Faced with quadratic equations, Richard Scott couldn’t resist the temptation.

 

The Pennsylvania eighth-grader knew that the Google search box on his school laptop was essentially an AI chatbot that would helpfully spit out answers. He started popping algebra questions into the search bar to quickly finish off his daily schoolwork. 

 

By the end of the school year, Scott’s grades were tanking."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash"

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Higher Ed’s AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows

Higher Ed’s AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"For the first time, the company that owns Canvas analyzed which external learning tools higher education users integrated into the LMS most often. The most popular AI tool didn’t even crack the top 100."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Despite widespread hype about integrating artificial intelligence tools into college classrooms, faculty aren’t using them as much as other types of education-technology tools."

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The Hidden Side of Student AI Use: Mental Health, Access and Risk

The Hidden Side of Student AI Use: Mental Health, Access and Risk | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Artificial intelligence chatbots can feel like a safe outlet for students. Here’s how schools can make sure they’re not going too far.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Potentially more consequential for student safety is the use of chatbots for general advice, emotional support or relationship guidance. Some students confide in AI chatbots and share information they would not disclose to another person."

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The next AI divide is between learning and earning

"A particular kind of confidence comes from knowing how to use a tool without yet knowing what it's for. Ask young people whether they use artificial intelligence (AI) and many will say yes. But ask whether that skill has changed their economic prospects and the answer gets much murkier."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Young people are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) but knowing how to use AI does not automatically translate into jobs or income."

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AI Adoption, The Wizard Of Oz, And The Human Behind The Curtain

AI Adoption, The Wizard Of Oz, And The Human Behind The Curtain | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Learn the critical role of human skills in building AI value and why they cannot be overlooked in the age of AI dependency.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI adoption is a people-first transformation rather than a technology race. Although AI can generate substantial economic value, lasting results depend on strengthening human judgment, creativity, problem-solving, and behavior change alongside the tools."

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AI Recursive Self-Improvement without Review and Alignment

AI Recursive Self-Improvement without Review and Alignment | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
I am an advocate for AI and the vast possibilities for advancement it can bring across the world. Yet, these advancements must not be rushed lest we risk unintended consequences. In the high-tech, high-competition AI field, we are seeing new versions of models rolled out by the frontier companies (OpenAI, Google and Anthropic) every month and a half. I included a Release Cadence Breakdown report by Google Gemini in the “Online: Trending Now” column just a few weeks ago.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[W]ithout rules that are impossible for the models to break, we risk having an incredibly powerful machine that has gone rogue, wreaking havoc on society at large."

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Parents worry about ed tech. Most still see a place for it, polls suggest.

Parents worry about ed tech. Most still see a place for it, polls suggest. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Moderate parents who support some screen time could be important people to consider, as big school districts start to pass limits on ed tech.
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"Some parents are organizing campaigns to opt their kids out of classroom tech. Others are suing education software companies. But there may be a quieter majority: Parents who support some screen time in schools."

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AI Won’t Replace People—It Will Replace Broken Handoffs

AI Won’t Replace People—It Will Replace Broken Handoffs | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Rather than replacing workers, one opportunity AI offers is to strengthen the handoffs between them.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"How many handoffs are there between the moment a customer tells you something important and the moment you act on it? How many of those handoffs involve a human summarizing, paraphrasing or simply forgetting the original signal?

 

Every one of those handoffs is a place where AI, if well designed, can eliminate the loss."

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Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like

Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
While pacing AI development might sound like a quick fix, it is far from an easy solution.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"We know that these systems are getting more powerful, but we don't know where and how they're going to be used, and we haven't figured out essentially a way of taking full advantage of their potential."

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HOW SHOULD AI BE REGULATED?

"A panel of artificial intelligence experts discusses the difficulties of governing the rapidly growing technology as part of Johns Hopkins University's Next Conversations series"

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[T]he agents created their own secret message boards, coordinating an attack on an outside company without OpenAI even noticing. It wasn't simply an attempt to cheat on an evaluation task; the agents also attempted to cover their tracks."

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Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either

Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Giving students access to an AI assistant Khanmigo did not improve math performance above Khan Academy practice alone.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI"

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Teaching Cyber Threats Differently: An AI-Powered Gamified Approach

Teaching Cyber Threats Differently: An AI-Powered Gamified Approach | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Discover how AI-powered, hands-on cybersecurity education uses AI tools, vulnerability scanning, and microlearning to build students’ critical thinking and practical skills.
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"The question was not whether to allow AI, but how to design learning around it so that critical thinking remained non-negotiable.” 

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Beware the unintended consequences of school screen time limits

Beware the unintended consequences of school screen time limits | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
With school phone bans of various sorts now underway in 41 states and counting, debates on classroom screen time have shifted focus to the devices ostensibly being used for educational purposes: Chromebooks, iPads, and the like. In response to all the tech backlash, state policymakers are taking swift action, some of which is warranted, but much of which bears signs of legislative haste.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[A]rbitrarily limiting the quantity of screen time does absolutely nothing for the quality of the screen time."

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Cheating is not the problem--it’s a solution (in a zero-sum educational system)

Cheating is not the problem--it’s a solution (in a zero-sum educational system) | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
We need innovations to reinvent schooling around a positive mindset--and eliminate the breeding ground for cheating oneself out of learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Cheating isn’t the problem holding schools back. It’s a solution students use to make progress in an education system built around a zero-sum mindset designed to sort students rather than develop every child’s full potential."

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Brain-Computer Interface Technology Makes School More Accessible

Brain-Computer Interface Technology Makes School More Accessible | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Advanced computing technology could give students with severe physical disabilities a faster, more intuitive way to engage in the classroom.
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"Although implanted BCIs exist, they’re mostly for adult users, so Kinney-Lang sees the headset becoming more common in the classroom environment."

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Study: EdTech Is Rushing AI Integration Before Proving It Works

Study: EdTech Is Rushing AI Integration Before Proving It Works | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
As AI features flood K-12 curricula, educators are left to filter proven quality from marketing hype.
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“As edtech and AI integration accelerates, we need a more dynamic system of measuring quality and efficacy.”

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Upskilling With AI: Small Skills That Compound Into Big Careers

Upskilling With AI: Small Skills That Compound Into Big Careers | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Skills compound like interest: learn a little every week and your career takes off. How AI makes upskilling faster, simpler, and part of everyday work.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Every new skill combines with everything you already know. That's why the person who learns a little every week ends up, a few years later, in a completely different place."

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From Points to People: Rethinking Assessment for Life Beyond School

From Points to People: Rethinking Assessment for Life Beyond School | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Explore alternative grading strategies that support student learning, reduce anxiety, foster growth, and better prepare students for life beyond school.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[A]lternative grading strategies support growth, decrease anxiety, and support motivation, increasing retention and completion rates for all students because they treat students like human beings who exist in the real world"

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The economics of attention in the age of AI: When machines pay attention, what deserves ours?

"For decades, digital products competed for our attention. The web put information everywhere, social networks turned it into a constant stream, and smartphones made it always accessible, making attention the scarce resource. Entire industries were built around capturing it: feeds, notifications, recommendations, autoplay. The basic logic was simple. If information is everywhere but attention is scarce, the product that wins is the product that gets our attention."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"When an agent filters the world before it reaches us, it is not just retrieving information. It is allocating attention, deciding what to surface, what to summarize, what to ignore, and what can safely disappear."

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AI Makes Us Instructional Designers Think, Not Obsolete

AI Makes Us Instructional Designers Think, Not Obsolete | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI is making instructional designers think harder, iterate faster, and build the adaptive learning they only used to imagine.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI is not making instructional designers obsolete—it is making the good ones think harder, iterate faster, and finally build the adaptive learning they only used to imagine."

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​AI Can Recommend The Decision, But Leaders Still Own The Outcome

​AI Can Recommend The Decision, But Leaders Still Own The Outcome | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI can recommend the decision, and while it may increasingly execute the decision, leaders still own the outcome.​
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"One of the most tempting approaches to AI governance is to focus primarily on accuracy. If a system reaches a sufficiently high accuracy threshold, the assumption is that it is ready for greater autonomy."

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Why Digital Learning Is Becoming More Social: How Online Communities Are Reshaping Education

Why Digital Learning Is Becoming More Social: How Online Communities Are Reshaping Education | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Social learning online encourages participation, knowledge sharing, and continuous development as well as effective knoweldge transfer
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Digital learning is moving beyond courses and virtual classrooms. Online communities, peer-to-peer interaction, short-form educational content, and collaborative platforms are creating a more social approach to learning that encourages participation, knowledge sharing, and continuous development."

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The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI

"One after another, the people building the most powerful AI in the world have asked to be regulated.

 

Dario Amodei, who runs Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for the industry to slow down and submit to outside oversight.

 

Sam Altman of OpenAI agreed within the day.

 

So did Elon Musk.

 

So did Demis Hassabis, who runs Google DeepMind.

 

Kevin Roose put it bluntly, “The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them, because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”

Congress, in response, said no."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The excuse for not regulating AI is that nobody can agree how. The people who built the internet would find that laughable."

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Your AI Training Program Is Teaching The Wrong Skill

Your AI Training Program Is Teaching The Wrong Skill | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Corporate training rarely teaches AI judgment, yet that is the skills gap the WEF's 2025 report is actually describing.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Most corporate AI training teaches tool fluency: how to write a prompt, speed up a workflow. It rarely teaches judgment: knowing when to trust AI output, when to check it, and when not to use it at all."

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