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🟡 Lorenzo García Aretio: a profound legacy in distance education - an interview via @UNED. ✅ A pivotal figure who both witnessed and shaped the evolution of Distance Education, from its origins in postal correspondence to the current era of AI. ▶ https://t.co/rRjkTUigp4
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"As online education expands, educators face growing challenges in maintaining emotional connections with students while sustaining their own well-being. Emotional intelligence has long been recognized as a cornerstone of effective teaching, yet in digital spaces, cues are harder to read, and connection requires new strategies. This article explores how AI, when applied ethically, can amplify, not replace, the human touch in online classrooms"
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
"Typically, a company identifies a pain point (document processing, customer churn prediction, etc.) and spins up a proof of concept with a small team. It works in the lab, and leadership gets excited. Then it tries to operationalize it, and everything falls apart."
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Recraft is a top-ranked text-to-image model and design platform for photorealism, vector generation, custom styles, mockups, and more
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Most social learning programs start and end with discussion boards. But real social learning looks nothing like a forum thread.
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"Today, we are releasing a fully fleshed out version, 30 skills aligned with each of these roles to help model using AI to support our uniquely human skills,” said Richard Culatta, CEO of the organization."
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Higher education was designed for a world in which access to knowledge, expertise, feedback, mentorship, and authentic learning experiences were inherently scarce. By making many forms of intelligence increasingly abundant, AI is inherently redefining the existing paradigm.
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July 8, 8:34 AM
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Learn practical strategies for managing technology change in higher education, reducing change fatigue, and partnering with IT to support teaching success.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
In the age of AI, governance is about ensuring that institutions remain capable of directing what intelligent systems are helping them become
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
"Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate." "There’s a silent epidemic building in colleges and universities throughout the country — and as you might imagine, it has everything to do with AI.
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
“We want critical thinking, not just AI,” the financier told the FT.
Over the past few years, a veritable tidal wave of headlines, studies, and think pieces have flooded the internet with horror stories about the decline in literacy rates, social skills, and critical thinking abilities of the country’s college students.
While there’s a kernel of truth that these factors had already been slowly dwindling prior to the widespread adoption of AI, the tech only seems to be accelerating the drop-off in real-life abilities, particularly among young people for whom it can serve as a cognitive crutch.
The state of higher education is so bad that many of today’s higher ed students are not only offloading their coursework to AI chatbots like ChatGPT — a shortcut, educators say, that’s even impacting their ability to participate in face-to-face discussions.
And though universities have many purposes beyond simply preparing students for the workplace, that is one function that they do undoubtedly serve. The results could be rocky: as Cal State Chico ethics professor Troy Jollimore told the New Yorker in 2025, “massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate.”
While plenty of thought leaders have waxed lyrical about the importance of “AI literacy” — an understanding of how to effectively use AI tools, basically — the businesses these future students are heading toward are still heavily reliant on literacy literacy. For all its revolutionary potential, there’s ample evidence that AI has yet to meaningfully impact productivity in the US, meaning that students who go all-in on AI at the expense of other skills will likely find themselves ill-prepared for the actual demands of life after college." For original post, please visit: https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
Via Roxana Marachi, PhD
Every day, another op-ed lands in my feed: AI is destroying education.
Via EDTECH@UTRGV
"Since at least the 1960s, the connection between education and economic outcomes has been the subject of substantial research—both theoretical and empirical. Economists have long demonstrated that higher levels of education are associated with increased productivity, higher earnings and stronger economic growth."
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Read books with AI guidance, vocabulary support, and interactive quizzes to improve learning retention.
Via Nik Peachey
Aligned to existing ISTE standards and principles, the expanded Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate defines six roles and associated skills and practices students should have mastered when they graduate.
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Plan, generate, and export AI videos from a single chat. Describe your idea and get a structured script, scenes, voiceover plan, and cost estimate instantly.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Streaming solved the problem of access. Now, we must solve the problem of engagement.
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"Rote memorization is a better way to learn things like math facts and vocabulary words than whatever the latest trendy method is at the moment."
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July 8, 8:35 AM
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AI must evolve beyond a simple information dispenser; it must design structured environments that respect human perceptual organization, guiding the learner seamlessly toward a comprehensive and lasting understanding of the whole.
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July 6, 6:34 PM
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Last modified: August 25, 2025 Under the Duke Community Standard, unauthorized use of generative AI is treated as cheating. This means you have the discretion to define how, if, an
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Even when students use AI entirely within institutional rules, they still most likely bypass the struggle through which learning often occurs
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Anki - a program which makes remembering things easy.
Via Nik Peachey
"Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath’s recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation warning about the rapid expansion of EdTech and the explosion of student screen time should spark an important national conversation about learning, cognition, and the future of education."
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A bilingual educator examines how alignment with AI emerges not from better prompting but from deliberate boundary-setting and sustained correction over time—building on the practitioner lens first developed in Holding the Line.
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"Vinyl records and AI are actually similar technologies. Both seem to provoke a human response to technology: the easier something becomes via technology, the more we begin questioning what was valuable about the underlying use in the first place."