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onto Educational Technology News September 3, 2011 7:26 PM
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Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher ed is the assumption that students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies (RT @polarisdotca: Great article on social media in education, esp #highered, by @joshsternberg in The Atlantic
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June 15, 2:52 PM
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The question for educators: How to know when AI supports real learning.
"Information is more easily accessible than ever before. Anyone anywhere can ask an AI tool a question and receive an answer that seems reasonable, at least on the surface. It’s not surprising, then, to see predictions of the demise of traditional schools and colleges."
"[E]ducation has never been only about access to information. Students need much more to become capable members of society. They need the ability to assess the quality of information, recognize strong work, and connect ideas."
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June 15, 2:44 PM
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How one school principal uses AI to save time on administrative tasks that can be better spent with students and staff
"A few more AI time-savers that I have embraced, but not all on the same day, include PD planning, form feedback, and evaluation feedback referencing our evaluation model. I estimate a few hours saved daily–not minutes–and my school wins when I’m present!"
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June 15, 2:37 PM
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The issue is no longer simply whether colleges and universities are technologically capable or technically compliant. It is whether they are prepared for what comes next.
"Under FERPA and related privacy obligations, institutions remain responsible for oversight and governance of educational records, even when those systems are operated by outside vendors."
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June 15, 2:29 PM
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"A person with no legal training can now take a two-hundred-page policy bill, pull out the clauses that matter, weigh them against each other, and produce a confident, well-argued critique in about five minutes. Extract, digest, calibrate. A decade ago that was a job. Today it is a text box."
"You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding."
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June 12, 1:54 PM
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As AI becomes more integrated into higher education, institutions must address ethics, including representation, sourcing, modeling and accountability.
"AI has the potential to reflect our existing power structures, but—if used intelligently and critically—it can also be deployed to help disrupt them."
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June 12, 1:33 PM
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"On convenience, abdication, and the quiet erosion of the open web. The internet isn’t dying. That’s the problem."
"In 2026, over half of all web traffic is generated by bots, not humans (Computing, 2026). The most damning part is not the rise of the bots. It is that most of us did not notice when the internet stopped being… ours."
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June 12, 1:30 PM
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The question is no longer whether students will use AI after graduation but to what extent. So, how can universities best ensure that students are workforce-ready?
"As AI continues to evolve, universities will need to help students develop both technical fluency and critical awareness. The goal is to prepare them to engage with these tools thoughtfully and productively."
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June 11, 9:28 AM
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To help readers focus on top trends worthy of their attention, EdSurge journalists distilled expertise from education sources of all sorts into abou
"Beyond devising ways to make sure students don’t stunt their own learning by over-relying on AI,...questions remain on how to best help them master another facet of AI literacy: telling fact from fiction when the technology can be used to generate fake content or spin up incorrect information in an effort to people please."
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June 11, 9:22 AM
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"Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I remember spending countless hours with Atari, Nintendo, and Gameboy. At the time, these consoles seemed to reshape childhood overnight, even if parents were skeptical. My mother often told me to stop playing, assuming the games had no long-term benefit. Today, that assumption feels outdated. The video game industry, now exceeding $160 billion, plays a significant role in shaping education and professional opportunities. Beyond its entertainment value, gaming has evolved into a cultural phenomenon with lasting implications for communication, collaboration, and learning."
"Around the world, universities are increasingly offering esports-related programs...These programs not only support players but also prepare students for roles in the broader industry. When coupled with academic accountability, esports becomes an effective motivational and educational pathway."
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June 10, 1:35 PM
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A new survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation finds that the vast majority of teachers have not received formal guidance on how to use AI in their work, and about a third have gotten none.
"A new report suggests that districts are moving on AI faster than many expected, but the infrastructure needed to do it responsibly is struggling to keep up."
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June 10, 1:30 PM
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Your finger hovering over the “Allow” button.
A pop‑up window appears on your laptop. On your phone. Maybe even on your smart glasses someday.
“Copilot, or Gemini, or ChatGPT with screen recording wants access to:
One click. That’s all it takes."
"One click, and it promises to finally understand you. To finish your sentences. To remind you of the name of that actor. To draft emails that sound exactly like you. But as your heartbeat quickens...a question whispers from the back of your mind: Is this freedom…or is this a velvet cage?"
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June 10, 1:22 PM
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Do your AI literacy efforts account for the full range of ways AI can hurt you, cognitively? AI has … introduced entirely new categories of harm.” —Brookings
"Over time, slack can leave you so dependent on AI that you accept its outputs more or less at face value and give up thinking for yourself altogether"
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June 15, 2:59 PM
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"Pre-service teachers – myself included – often lament that they didn’t really learn to teach until the rubber-meets-the-road experience of student teaching or that first job. This is the challenge of teaching pre-service teachers. I’ve been doing it for a handful of years now, and I see a trend – the TikTok way of knowing in education. It’s got me wondering how we adapt our practices based on my experience during my recent final exams with pre-service teachers."
"[W]hat if we become weavers of stories? What if we help students craft their own and build connections of knowing? What if we engage lived experience not as secondary to research, but as a complementary form of knowing?"
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June 15, 2:49 PM
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"Two school days. That’s all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments.
I knew what to do, I’ve done it before, mark them credit or no credit and move on. Students get something out of that. They did the practice. But if any of them were practicing it wrong, nobody catches it, nobody tells them, and the misunderstanding rides along into the next unit.
That pile of work led me to build an AI grading assistant. And this past April, I removed its most automated feature: the one that could return an AI-generated grade and comment to a student before I had reviewed it.
Building that feature was easy to justify. Removing it taught me which part of grading a teacher can’t hand off."
"[W]hen a student asks, “Why did I get this grade?” the answer cannot be, “Because the system said so.”
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June 15, 2:41 PM
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"Her newest book, Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students, explores what it means to teach writing in the age of AI. Another forthcoming book, Writing Still Matters, examines why writing instruction remains essential even as technology continues to evolve.
For Turner, these questions extend far beyond academic research.
They raise deeper questions about the future of learning itself."
"The goal is not simply to complete assignments. It is to develop the habits of mind that allow students to navigate an uncertain and evolving world."
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"AI often makes me feel like I am having one big, long crisis. Like I’m in limbo or purgatory, or something. Doom and gloom, and WTF are we going to do? But then there’s the other side. When I see things people are creating, or I create in my own work (like when an agent pulls some magic out of what feels like nowhere), that makes me feel unbelievably excited.
But no matter what side of that yo-yo I’m on, there are some things that I will always believe."
"It’s easy to get trapped in the anti-AI paralysis...If you use these tools simply to write your decks faster, or to find you facts and futures, you are actively participating in the machine-replacing-humans narrative. Your job was never to sit behind a desk finding the average; your job was always to get out into the real world"
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How do we use GenAI without letting it use us? By mastering the tool, and helping students do so too, its much-feared effects on the humanities cannot come to pass, writes Stuart Christie
"Up and down the line of humanities learning and teaching, our front-line professors and their students are meeting this crisis resolutely – all the while wondering if, by embracing AI methods and pedagogies, they are aiding and abetting the enemy."
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June 12, 1:37 PM
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Discover why critical thinking often disappears in student writing and how purposeful reading, synthesis, and thesis-driven writing can strengthen academic work.
"Orally or in discussion postings, students engage complex ideas but struggle to demonstrate comparable reasoning in writing for assignments. The writing describes what authors wrote, more of a regurgitation, rather than effectively synthesizing sources into the context for their writing."
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June 12, 1:31 PM
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"I once had an SVP tell me, “Don’t ever talk to me about a problem unless you have options to solve them.” Fair point. So here’s what actually works.
Real AI governance doesn’t live in a framework. It shows up in how decisions get made, how people work, and more importantly, in what teams no longer have to think about."
"It doesn't live in a framework. It lives in how decisions get made."
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June 11, 9:29 AM
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Social media firms face thousands of lawsuits, the BBC looks at four which could be significant.
"[T]he outcome of the lawsuits, whether they ultimately settle out of court or end up with jury verdicts against companies, could change the way social platforms operate forever."
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June 11, 9:24 AM
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Why story-driven training sticks — and how to build it fast in SHIFT Meteora AI Studio or deliver it through the LMS you already use.
"[A]sk someone about a story that moved them, even one they heard years ago, and the details come back instantly: the character, the moment of tension, what they would have done differently."
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June 11, 9:19 AM
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Researchers say a lack of reliable information on artificial intelligence use on campus could lead to misguided policies.
"Without reliable information about how many students are using AI and how they are using it, college administrators risk designing policies based on assumptions rather than evidence."
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June 10, 1:34 PM
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While some experts suggest AI integration for teaching and learning, schools still have to figure out how to pay for it.
"Most conversations about generative artificial intelligence in schools eventually zoom in on using AI in the classroom. Before districts redesign teaching and learning around AI, they may need to answer a more fundamental question: Can schools afford an AI-first future?"
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While not all are of equal value, a new survey from Coursera found that the vast majority of employers are inclined to offer higher starting salaries to candidates with microcredentials. Both students and employers say microcredentials are valuable assets in today’s tough job market, new data shows.
"As technology, economic uncertainty, and demographic shifts reshape the labor market, employers are increasingly prioritizing verified, job-relevant skills...micro-credentials can play in helping learners build career-relevant skills"
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The head of learning initiatives for Google Deepmind says debates about use of new technologies should focus on how to embrace more holistic teaching methods. Banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education risks shutting down conversations about how to innovate in pedagogy, according to a learning expert at Google Deepmind.
"Banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education risks shutting down conversations about how to innovate in pedagogy"
This article provides insight into how classrooms are still the same as they were a long time ago. I liked the analogy they used of a doctor being put in a current hospital and may be lost, but if you put a professor from a thousand years ago into a modern classroom he would know exactly what to do. It is crazy to think that with all that we have advanced in technology we have yet used it to improve our education system and use it to our advantage.