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"Kids have been off task and distracted in school long before Chromebooks or iPads existed. But some parents and experts say devices only make it easier to engage in non-academic, inappropriate and even dangerous content." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning

Schools try to block kids from accessing dangerous content and games online. Little kids are outsmarting them

Parents, educators say if devices are here to stay, districts need to have more control, transparency.

hechingerreport.org

"I build ed tech. We need higher standards, better tools and a philosophy that keeps teachers at the center" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

OPINION: Walking away from education technology isn’t the answer to the latest backlash

When the responses to ed tech are blanket bans and broad restrictions that make no distinction between distraction and instruction, we’re not solving a problem — we’re avoiding it.

hechingerreport.org

“Instead of trying to ‘catch’ AI use, focus on designing assignments that encourage process, reasoning, and authentic engagement.” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

AI Detectors Are Out, New Approaches Are In

"A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI?"

insidehighered.com

"Jody Britten [grouped] 100 school districts across the country into a five-level framework, ranging from active promotion to outright prohibition. Her findings point to a system that leans cautious...disconnected from the state guidance meant to inform it" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

What Happens When AI Policy Meets a Real Classroom?

One national study, one local leader, and a reality check on how schools are really regulating AI.

edsurge.com

"Choosing the correct answer in a quiz is usually straightforward. Deciding what to say when a customer is furious, an employee becomes defensive during feedback, or a coworker ignores a safety rule is a different challenge." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Build Realistic Branching Scenarios With AI

Learn how to design branching scenarios with AI to prepare employees for real-world decision-making challenges.

elearningindustry.com

"What Roddenberry understood decades early was the relationship. He saw that the real story of AI would be about the kind of people we’d choose to be alongside it — whether we’d meet these new minds with curiosity or fear." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

What Star Trek got right about AI

"The show’s voice-first computer, plain-language querying, and universal translator anticipated the assistants we ship now — the interface, but not the intelligence."

uxdesign.cc

Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Following concerns about student privacy and data storage and tracking, the project has been paused. But how far away are we from having human-like robots or AI-enhanced avatars as routine features of the school classroom?" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

A lifelike robot called ‘Sally’ was going to teach in a US school. It’s not as weird as it sounds

A rural district in New York state has made global headlines for plans to introduce a humanoid robot into high school classrooms as a teaching assistant.

theconversation.com

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Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

"AI has solved the speed problem in course creation, but speed alone doesn't guarantee learning." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Instructional Design Framework Should Drive AI Course Generation

This article looks at why an Instructional Design framework should undergird any AI course generation as a foundation.

elearningindustry.com

"New findings from Turnitin highlight the growing leadership role of teachers integrating artificial intelligence into the classroom... the importance of guiding students toward using AI as a tool for learning rather than a substitute for thinking." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

Teachers Forge Ahead on Integrating AI

A new report highlights teacher-led adoption, student demand for feedback, and a growing push for tools tailored specifically to the classroom.

edsurge.com

"[A]s employers push for greater AI adoption, they’re asking for something just as important: communication, professionalism, and adaptability. Not technical certifications...but the very human competencies that cannot be automated away." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

Employers keep talking about durable skills-they may come from surprising places

The absence of durable skills from today's graduate pipeline reflects not a skills gap, but a failure of institutional design.

ecampusnews.com

“We shouldn't be using AI to grade people, because we need human judgment” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

4 Times Not To Use AI as a Teacher or Student

From grading to lesson creation, these are some of the times when educators are finding it is best for them and their students to do things the old-fashioned way

techlearning.com

“One of the things we've learned over the last couple of years is when we talk about using AI, we talk about it being a coach, not an answer giver, or we also say that it's an augmentation to your learning” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Thoughtfully Leveraging AI To Improve Learning Outcomes, Efficiency, And More

Innovative Leader Award - Matt Kuhn of Volusia County Schools shares how his district has implemented AI for use by students, staff, and leaders.

techlearning.com

"When it comes to online education...it is not about choosing between humans and machines, but rather designing systems that can help elevate faculty’s ability to connect, care, and grow." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Supporting Empathy in Online Classrooms: How AI tools enhance emotional intelligence

"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 [1]. Specifically, three practical use cases are discussed: sentiment analysis, nudging tools, and reflective AI journaling."

elearnmag.acm.org

"In online environments,...what instructors need is not confirmation that AI did or did not write something. They need direct evidence of learning. Detection cannot provide that, regardless of how accurate it becomes." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

When AI Can Write Everything They Submit: Learning verification in online teaching

"Every educator in higher education is grappling with AI right now. But the challenge lands differently in fully asynchronous online environments. In a face-to-face course, a faculty member develops a running read on each student across the semester. They have heard students speak, watched them work through ideas in discussion, observed the moments where understanding arrived and the moments where it did not. When a submitted paper does not sound like the student who stumbled through an explanation two weeks ago, the discrepancy is recognizable. The faculty member has a reference point outside the artifact itself."

elearnmag.acm.org

"[E]ducators have options to evolve assessment beyond traditional approaches and towards more diverse and innovative forms. A variety of approaches can offer more meaningful and relevant ways to support student learning and success." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Six assessment types that support deep, real-world learning

If traditional assessment methods feel limited, Temesgen Kifle shares alternative ways to measure students’ understanding and ability to apply learning to authentic problems

timeshighereducation.com

Week 6 with my Bambu AI 3d printer. This week I created a helping robotic hand and a handy Post-It Notes holder with stencils. These gadgets will come in handy when I'm out recruiting for the EdTech programs and to declutter my work space. #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady

“For everyone who works in higher education, there is a great deal of pain and disruption to come...We can minimize the damage, though, by helping people understand how AI will transform higher education.” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Why One Professor Abandoned the AI Resistance

Scott Latham has embraced the new technology and shifted his focus to measuring the AI readiness of colleges and universities. Two years ago, Scott Latham, a business professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, was one of academia’s leading voices of the resistance to artificial intelligence. “AI is not your friend,” he wrote in a June 2024 editorial for Inside Higher Ed, imploring faculty to “pump the brakes on artificial intelligence in higher education,” lest robots take their jobs in the not-so-distant future.

insidehighered.com

"Higher education is approaching a credibility crisis: Colleges may still be awarding degrees, but can they prove that students—not their AI tools—have actually learned?" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Accreditation’s AI reckoning: Can colleges still prove students are learning?

Accreditation in the age of AI must now become the force that pushes higher education beyond simply counting completed work.

ecampusnews.com

“'Teachers do not simply list course content for learners. They sequence it in ways that imply a story about what fits together and where it is headed.' (2025, p.73)...what is the story my syllabus is telling students?...is it even telling a story at all?" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

What’s the Story Your Syllabus Tells?: Setting the Stage for Learning

Discover how storytelling in teaching can transform your course syllabus into a guide that engages students, builds context, and creates a more meaningful learning experience.

facultyfocus.com

"Instead of relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all policies, the model provides flexible, context-based support that encourages responsible and effective AI use." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

A ‘buffet’ model of faculty development to support evolving use of AI

A flexible, agile approach to AI skills development allows faculty and students to choose the guidance, resources and learning opportunities that best fit their roles and contexts

timeshighereducation.com

"[O]nly 11% of higher ed instructors received comprehensive AI training, while 41% said they had not received any formal training on AI." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

90% of students use AI in the classroom, Instructure poll finds

"A new survey from the ed tech provider also found that two-thirds of instructors and students are concerned about artificial intelligence’s accuracy."

highereddive.com

"[T]he AI-ready individual uses technology to expand curiosity, improve critical thinking and learn ethical responsibility. Students can only capitalize on AI’s potential benefits if curriculum supports ongoing experimentation and reflection." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Beyond ChatGPT: How to create successful AI-ready students

New courses, faculty initiatives and bottom-up governance models are helping college students learn when—and when not—to rely on AI.

universitybusiness.com

"The fastest-growing, non-technical AI skill is creating content that promotes a business’ strategy or services" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The 10 most valuable AI skills students want to learn

Student interest in non-technical AI skills is exploding as employers hope to integrate the technology into daily operations.

universitybusiness.com

"And all of this intelligence is trapped inside a messenger, like a chatbot from 2015 but on steroids. But the conversation becomes longer, the scrollbar becomes smaller, and my best ideas disappear" #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Chat is the wrong interface for AI

"I noticed that I’m becoming increasingly annoyed while talking to AI agents. Not because they are not intelligent enough, but quite the opposite. I can spend an hour discussing an idea with a model, while walking with my dogs. We’re moving between design, engineering, psychology, physics, and a real product that appeared somewhere in the middle. The LLM can follow me surprisingly well."

uxdesign.cc

"In an AI-driven economy where technologies evolve rapidly, organisations appear to be rewarding candidates who can demonstrate practical expertise from day one." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Why the AI era is making skills more valuable than degrees

Coursera’s 2026 report shows micro‑credentials driving pay boosts, faster recruitment, and stronger employability in India’s AI‑driven economy.

dqindia.com

"[T]he web’s accessibility standards have undergone an unintended role reversal. They began as accommodations for people with disabilities. Today they also function as infrastructure for one of the largest technological industries in history." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The accessibility paradox: How making the web easier for humans also made it easier for machines.

"Accessibility is one of those rare concepts that almost nobody argues against. Making websites easier to navigate for people with disabilities is a fairly uncontested virtue. Semantic HTML, descriptive links, meaningful image descriptions, and keyboard navigation all help create a web that is more inclusive and usable. Yet the AI era has introduced an unexpected, deeply ironic wrinkle into this story. The websites doing the most to make information accessible to humans are often the same websites making it easiest for machines to harvest."

uxdesign.cc

"In UX design, friction is anything that slows a user down, prevents them from accomplishing their goal, or causes mental frustration." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Rethinking friction in an AI world

"Rethinking friction in an AI world Why the best UX often disappears. And when it shouldn’t The paradox of “forgettable” design 'Make the experience forgettable'”

uxdesign.cc

"Across higher education, [AI] has rapidly changed how students complete academic work...The first concern has understandably been academic integrity. A deeper issue, however, is emerging. We are beginning to mistake performance for understanding." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #AIEdu

Why AI Is Changing What It Means to Be Intelligent

Explore how AI is changing student learning and assessment in higher education and why educators must design assignments that measure thinking, judgment, and understanding.

facultyfocus.com