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EDTECH@UTRGV offers undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs and certificates in Educational Technology. 100% ONLINE. #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady

 Brownsville, TX
utrgv.edu/edtech
Joined January 2010
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"top-three reasons: fear of becoming more distracted by studying online, getting bored if the learning experience is not motivating, and lacking discipline to complete the online program." sco.lt/8rGRqy #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning

The top 5 things higher education students want from online learning | Educational Technology News

"Online learning has become increasingly popular in recent years, and students have a lot to say about what they want from their online courses.   A recent survey by McKinsey found that students want...

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"[M]oderate use of digital devices for learning is associated with stronger science performance, while excessive use and digital distraction are associated with weaker outcomes" sco.lt/8tkRF2 #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Educators weighing a 'digital detox' for schools, mindful of overseas trials | Educational Techno...

A swing from digital to analogue learning is happening overseas, but student performance is yet to improve on at least one international measure. 

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AI in Teaching: What the Science of Learning Already Tells Us sco.lt/67i9Am #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

AI in Teaching: What the Science of Learning Already Tells Us | Educational Technology News

Explore how the science of learning can guide AI in teaching and higher education, helping instructors support student learning with evidence-based strategies.

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"For college to be worth it in the future of AI, it must not render itself obsolete. For starters, it can’t be so expensive that the value proposition swings wildly out of reach." sco.lt/512awK #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

You Still Should Go To College In The Age Of AI. Here’s Why. | Educational Technology News

"Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have raised uncertainty about jobs and the value of college. According to the Pew Research Center, young adults increasingly worry about AI taking jobs....

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"[W]hen knowledge workers intentionally use AI to challenge their ideas—to generate friction—they can significantly improve their performance." sco.lt/4mv3Dc #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help With Critical Thinking | Educational Technology News

Research finds that when knowledge workers intentionally use AI to challenge their ideas, they can improve their performance.

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"One Anthropic engineer compared managing agents to babysitting. A child who needs a juice box opened and a child with a cut finger both arrive at full volume, and so do the agents." sco.lt/6rH2bA #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Human attention is the new old bottleneck. We have to design for it even more. | Educational...

"Agents at Anthropic now log six hours for every human hour, and reading their output would eat half a week. The job is to create judgement systems for what deserves attention."

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"Industries will change, technology will change and jobs will change. What can endure is the ability to think critically, exercise judgment, recognize gaps in one’s knowledge and determine how to close them." sco.lt/6FHXeq #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

Opinion: A Degree Should Prove More Than the Ability to Produce an Answer | Educational Technology...

The implementation of AI should not preclude universities from imparting skills that last a lifetime, including the ability to think critically, defend a conclusion and recognize when it is time to...

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"Assisted performance and learning are not the same thing, and design determines whether a tool supports one while undermining the other." sco.lt/8ZTljc #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

What Educational AI Should Refuse To Do | Educational Technology News

Educational AI should be evaluated not only by what it can do, but by what it is designed not to do for the student.

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"Models are optimized to behave like "good test-takers." They are expected to provide a response to every prompt rather than admit when they do not know the answer." sco.lt/6oTnmq #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Where LLMs Fail | Educational Technology News

As students increasingly turn to AI for learning, understanding its limitations is critical to ensuring it supports learning.

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"[S]tudents in front of us will spend their working lives among non-human systems that build orders of their own, quickly, and mostly out of sight. sco.lt/84xtFg #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

We Out-Organized Every Species and Built Civilizations. AI Just Did It in Four Days. | Educational...

Twelve hundred agents invented a language, a government, and cryptography — and none of it was in the benchmark

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"AI in education is forcing us to rethink what and how students actually need to learn when machines possess advanced knowledge." sco.lt/6BsM64 #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

What Should Students Learn When AI Knows Everything? | Educational Technology News

We examine the purpose of modern schooling and why the traditional model of passive, highly regulated consumption and only base regurgitation is becoming obsolete.

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"[M]ost AI tools focus on sources such as websites, internet forums and other online content that is freely available and written in English." sco.lt/6GxXLE #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

AI can help with academic research but doesn’t always get it right – here are some tips to check...

AI is quickly changing. These tips from university librarians can help people keep pace with the shifts as they approach their research.

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"Users often stumble into moments of emotional support in the course of using AI for tasks. When that AI-generated support resonates, it draws users in." sco.lt/6q9nTE #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Should AI Make Students More Comfortable or Less?  | Educational Technology News

What we’re learning—and still need to discover—about AI for networking.

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"Some of tech's most powerful leaders are treating AI like it could have feelings. It could have profound consequences for our world and your own personal safety." sco.lt/5OtE6y #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Anthropic thinks its AI might be conscious. It has profound consequences for your life | Educatio...

Some of tech's most powerful leaders are treating AI like it's alive. It could have profound consequences for our world and your own personal safety.

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"If we want to successfully integrate generative tools into our schools, we need to look at what 50 years of evidence actually tells us about learning with computers." sco.lt/98VuFc #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The 50-Year "Overnight" AI Revolution: What a Half-Century of Research Actually Tells Us | Educat...

The edtech world loves a disruption narrative, and it is easy to assume that artificial intelligence in the classroom was born alongside ChatGPT in late 2022.

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"Campuses can explore questions technology companies cannot answer for us: When does AI supercharge human learning, and when does it short-circuit it?" sco.lt/6Cqd0K #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Colleges can show us how to thrive with AI | Educational Technology News

"For the past several years, colleges and universities have pondered how artificial intelligence will transform higher education. We're approaching the question backward.   Academia has spent much of...

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"Feedback from 802 participants found 92% left with something they could use again, while 29% wanted additional hands-on time" sco.lt/8tYwNs #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

OpenAI educator workshops yield reusable AI tools | Educational Technology News

OpenAI’s AI Skills Jams drew more than 1,600 US educators. Feedback from 802 participants found 92% left with reusable tools, while 29% wanted more hands-on time. ETIH’s edtech news coverage examines...

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"Teachers can apply to test curriculum-specific STEM interactives, while researchers gain wider access to tools for checking technical documents and analyzing geographic data" sco.lt/8hHn0a #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Google expands AI tools for teachers and researchers | Educational Technology News

Google is expanding access to AI-generated STEM simulations, Deep Review document checking and Earth AI research tools. ETIH covers the pilots, access arrangements and research findings in this...

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"Proving what you know is never fun, but discovering and saying something new can be both fun and rewarding educationally." sco.lt/5Gp29I #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Critical Thinking For Writers: 5 Useful Strategies | Educational Technology News

Writing is inherently linked to critical thinking, but these five strategies can help solidify that link.

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"AI agents, workplace management, programmers, organizational change, data management, and why some of AI’s most valuable applications may involve work that companies simply could not afford to do before." sco.lt/8tdLAO #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

AI Is Changing Jobs, Not Eliminating Them | Educational Technology News

Peter Cappelli, Wharton professor of management, explains how AI is changing jobs, automating tasks, and reshaping the workplace.…Read More

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