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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:

  • Undergraduate and graduate teacher education programs
  • Curriculum & Instruction courses
  • Educational Technology programs
  • Higher education faculty development
  • School technology coordinators and talent development professionals

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Listening to Skepticism: What Faculty Concerns About Generative AI Reveal

Listening to Skepticism: What Faculty Concerns About Generative AI Reveal | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Listening to faculty concerns about generative AI can help institutions respond with more clarity, precision, and trust.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[B]efore institutional leaders ask faculty to do more with GenAI, a more useful first step might be to ask a simpler question: What exactly are faculty worried about?"

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April 29, 12:54 PM
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Can Apprenticeships Rebuild the Learning Curve that AI Is Flattening?

Can Apprenticeships Rebuild the Learning Curve that AI Is Flattening? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
The old learning curve is being broken by machines—and apprenticeship could be a central strategy to deliberately rebuild it. That’s what National Apprenticeship Week should be about.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Artificial intelligence is automating many entry-level tasks that once allowed novice workers to learn. The lower rungs of the career ladder, where people made mistakes, developed judgment, and built confidence, are weakening."

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April 29, 12:52 PM
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Synthetic Socrates, Teaching Assistant: How AI Can Restore the Philosophical Classroom

Synthetic Socrates, Teaching Assistant: How AI Can Restore the Philosophical Classroom | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
How can AI improve student thinking? Explore powerful, classroom-tested strategies that turn AI into a debate partner, tutor, and catalyst for deeper learning.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"[I]f you use AI to replace your mind, you’re training the model. If you use it to extend your mind, you’re training yourself."

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April 29, 12:47 PM
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10 UI patterns that won’t survive the AI shift

"One of the bigger challenges for product and design teams right now is a type of UX debt nobody is tracking — patterns that still function but no longer justify their existence.

 

We’ve spent years perfecting dashboards, data entry forms, search flows, filter sidebars, setup wizards, notification feeds, FAQ pages, onboarding tours. All built on the same assumption: the human is the one doing the work.

 

Every one of those screens exists because a designer answered the same question: “What does the user need to do here?”

 

And right now, AI is replacing the reason each one exists."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The interfaces that survive will be those that make human judgment more powerful — not those that require humans to simulate computers."

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April 28, 12:01 PM
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When AI does the work, who does the learning?

When AI does the work, who does the learning? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
If we design AI systems that shortcut the learning process, we risk undermining the very purpose and value of education.
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"AI is rapidly reshaping education, but not always in ways that support learning. A growing number of AI tools promise to “help” students by doing assignments, writing papers, solving problem sets, or even completing exams automatically.

 

While these tools may appear convenient, they raise an important question: Are they removing barriers to learning, or removing learning itself?"

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April 28, 11:50 AM
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As AI pushes students to reconsider majors, universities struggle to adapt

"A recent poll shows AI’s increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities that are still struggling to determine how the technology will shape higher education."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Around 16 percent pointed to AI as the reason they changed their field of study."

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April 28, 11:41 AM
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The Screen Time Excuse: Why Blaming EdTech Isn’t The Solution We Are Looking For

The Screen Time Excuse: Why Blaming EdTech Isn’t The Solution We Are Looking For | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Something is happening in education right now that should make every serious person uncomfortable.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The scapegoats change. The pattern doesn't. We find something to blame, build a reform movement around it, and never quite get around to the harder, less headline-friendly work of actually changing the conditions in which children learn and teachers teach. And now we're doing it again, only this time, the villain is the screen."

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April 27, 12:15 PM
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What AI Will Look Like In 2030 (And What It Means For eLearning)

What AI Will Look Like In 2030 (And What It Means For eLearning) | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"[T]he AI trends reshaping eLearning by 2030 aren't coming from EdTech start-ups. They're coming from the raw compute infrastructure being built right now, the same forces powering ChatGPT, scientific research, and software engineering. Those forces are heading straight for your LMS. Let's break down exactly what's coming, and what you need to do about it."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI in 2030 will become the backbone of eLearning, while human roles will have shifted toward strategy and oversight."

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April 27, 12:12 PM
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AI Is Exposing A Capability Problem, Not Just A Technology Shift

AI Is Exposing A Capability Problem, Not Just A Technology Shift | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Most organizations say they are trying to prepare for AI. In practice, many are doing something narrower. They are giving people access to tools, offering introductory sessions, and encouraging experimentation. That may create activity. It does not necessarily create capability. This is the distinction that matters. AI is not just introducing new tools into the workplace. It is exposing whether organizations understand how capability is actually built, supported, and applied under real conditions."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI is exposing a critical gap: access and support are not capability. Organizations must rethink how performance is built, supported, and measured to avoid scaling inconsistency."

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April 27, 12:09 PM
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The AI Bubble Is Deflating, Says One Educator

The AI Bubble Is Deflating, Says One Educator | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Educator and author Carl Hooker says AI interest from educators has passed peak levels.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI enthusiasm amongst educators hasn’t evaporated, but it's not as intense as it once was, says Carl Hooker, educator and author."

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April 27, 12:06 PM
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The rulebook for designing AI experiences

"Three of the world’s largest tech companies have published guidelines for responsible Human-AI Interaction. Here’s what they got right, and where the gaps are."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"When someone is actually sitting in front of an AI-powered product, what makes the experience good? And who, if anyone, has written that down in a way that’s actually useful?"

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April 27, 12:03 PM
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How should universities define AI proficiency?

How should universities define AI proficiency? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
AI literacy is increasingly seen as fundamental knowledge for students. How can educators set the parameters that ensure proficient use of artificial intelligence across the institution, regardless of discipline? Junghwan Kim offers advice
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI proficiency cannot simply mean 'learning the tool'. Students must develop deep knowledge in their field and learn how AI interacts with that knowledge."

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April 29, 1:01 PM
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Building AI Initiatives with Bottom-Up Champions

Building AI Initiatives with Bottom-Up Champions | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Driven by a bottom-up partnership between the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and the Division of Digital Learning, the University of Central Florida established an evolving campus infrastructure of policies, training, and a national conference to guide the ethical and effective integration of generative artificial intelligence into teaching and learning."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"The bottom-up approach used by the DDL and FCTL to kick-start the development of resources and programming on AI use in teaching and learning has evolved into a strong foundation of faculty support for this rapidly advancing technology."

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April 29, 12:57 PM
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Teaching and Learning with AI: Three Priorities

Teaching and Learning with AI: Three Priorities | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Generative artificial intelligence is pushing teaching and learning away from a model centered on producing answers and academic artifacts and toward one that places greater weight on process, judgment, reflection, and applied thinking. In conversations with campus leaders, three priorities emerged."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"It's important to create a safe space for our students and for our faculty as well, where they can share their perspectives, concerns, fears, ideas about generative AI."

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April 29, 12:53 PM
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Friendly AI chatbots more prone to inaccuracies, study suggests

Friendly AI chatbots more prone to inaccuracies, study suggests | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Researchers found adjusting AI systems to be more warm and friendly to users would result in an "accuracy trade-off".
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI chatbots trained to be warm and friendly when interacting with users may also be more prone to inaccuracies, new research suggests."

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April 29, 12:50 PM
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Is Your AI Ethical, Human-Centered and Pro-Social?

Is Your AI Ethical, Human-Centered and Pro-Social? | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"AI tools are no longer a relatively simple search engine that is driven by marketing metrics to help us conduct our research. Rather, with AI we are using more sophisticated tools that conduct research and seek answers to our prompting while making source-selection decisions, contextual settings and semantic subtleties that impact the values expressed in the results."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Many of us utilize AI daily in our higher education work, yet we may not have assessed the ethical and human-centered nature of the tool we have selected and trained through our prompts."

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April 28, 12:04 PM
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The future of AI in the classroom

The future of AI in the classroom | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Insights about AI in the classroom from three education conferences I attended in California.
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"We all know we’re supposed to check what AI spits out. But Victoria Yaneva, director of data science and AI at the National Board of Medical Examiners, said there’s growing evidence that humans are getting worse at doing so. People who are enthusiastic about AI are more likely to miss errors, she said. AI skeptics are better at catching them."

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April 28, 11:59 AM
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Syracuse University Gave AI Access To 30,000+ Students and Faculty. Here’s What They Learned

Syracuse University Gave AI Access To 30,000+ Students and Faculty. Here’s What They Learned | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
When used in the right way AI seems to help test scores and save teacher and staff time, say Syracuse University's Jeff Rubin and Andrew Joncas
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Syracuse University has gone all in on the AI revolution, deploying Claude AI to 30,000+ students, faculty members, and staff. Along the way, school leaders say they've developed effective AI use cases both in the classroom and beyond, ranging from test practice to course schedule management."

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April 28, 11:44 AM
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The forgotten conversation problem in AI chat

"A few months ago I spent an evening with Claude debugging a production cron job. We worked through the timing window, the fix landed, the deployment held overnight. Last week the same class of issue came back. I knew Claude had explained the edge case clearly. I could not find the conversation. I remembered it used a cron job. The native search did not match “cron job” because the words were not in the conversation title, and Claude.ai’s sidebar search only matches titles. The conversation is in there. I have no way to reach it."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI chat is now the largest single layer of new written human thought being produced on the internet. And that layer, across all three major platforms, is barely indexed for retrieval."

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April 27, 12:19 PM
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16 Characteristics Of A Critical Thinking Classroom

16 Characteristics Of A Critical Thinking Classroom | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"What Are Indicators Of Critical Thinking?...Students ask more questions than the teacher. Questions are valued over answers. Questions are revisited, updated, and revised."

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April 27, 12:13 PM
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Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy: All You Need To Know

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy: All You Need To Know | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Explore Bloom's revised taxonomy and learn how it classifies learning goals for modern educational practices.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Bloom's revised taxonomy is a guide for classifying learning goals based on how complex they are. It helps teachers and Instructional Designers organize learning from simple recall of facts to higher-order thinking skills."

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April 27, 12:10 PM
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What doctoral programs must change in an AI-saturated research environment

What doctoral programs must change in an AI-saturated research environment | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Generative AI has moved from novelty to a core tool in a remarkably short period of time. Doctoral students now routinely use AI tools to locate sources, summarize literature, generate outlines, and even draft sections of academic writing."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"In an AI era where text can be generated instantly, judgment, interpretation, and context remain unmistakably human for doctoral programs."

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April 27, 12:08 PM
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Students are becoming AI fluent. Universities aren’t.

Students are becoming AI fluent. Universities aren’t. | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it

"Across higher education, artificial intelligence is too often being governed as though it were primarily an academic integrity issue. It is clearly not just that.

 

AI is already reshaping how universities teach, advise, recruit, admit, communicate, assess risk, and make decisions. Yet many institutions continue to approach it through fragmented policies, uneven faculty guidance, and conversations narrowly focused on misuse in student work."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"AI literacy implies awareness and basic competence. Being AI fluent requires judgment, adaptability, and the ability to engage dynamically."

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April 27, 12:05 PM
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The right touch: mapping AI presence to user intent

"In the last piece, I talked about how signals help us understand what users are trying to accomplish, grounded in their Jobs to Be Done (JTBD). Even as generative capabilities expand, users still have real outcomes they’re working toward. Getting the signals right lets systems not only figure out what to generate, but when to adjust or pull back.

 

That thinking assumes something, though. It assumes we’re working with familiar patterns: structured interfaces, clear entry points, predictable flows.

 

As AI gets more embedded in the experience, that assumption starts to break down."

EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"Knowing what a user wants is only half the problem. The other half is knowing how, and how much, to respond."

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April 27, 12:01 PM
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The Hidden Curriculum of Testing: Multiple-Choice Exam Strategies

The Hidden Curriculum of Testing: Multiple-Choice Exam Strategies | Educational Technology News | Scoop.it
Why do students struggle with multiple-choice exams? Discover simple, research-backed test-taking strategies that improve performance and make the hidden curriculum of testing visible.
EDTECH@UTRGV's insight:

"When students are taught how to navigate exam formats, manage time, and regulate stress, assessments become more accurate and meaningful measures of learning."

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