Plamen Miltenoff A systematic review of 67 studies reveals that generative AI acts as a double-edged sword for student cognition, significantly impacting critical and creative thinking based on how it is utilized. While the technology can...
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Insights on Research, Technology, and Academic Transformation in the Digital AgeShort Videos, Attention, and Executive Control: What Universities Should Learn From New EEG Research
This research investigates how short-form video platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts impact the neurological functions of young adults. Using EEG technology, the study reveals that high levels of engagement with these apps correlate...
Functional, Critical, and Rhetorical AI Literacy in Research
Plamen Miltenoff Researchers currently use AI systems to search literature, summarize articles, develop research questions, assist with writing, analyze data, and even simulate peer review. Parker and Becker argue the need for a new understanding of AI literacy for...
AI Agents vs. Agentic AI: Why the Difference Matters for Higher Education
Plamen Miltenoff (scroll down for text in Bulgarian) The terms “AI agents” and “agentic AI” appear everywhere in current discussions about artificial intelligence. Technology companies, startup founders, and universities often use them interchangeably. The confusion...
AI in the Peer Review Chair: What the Current Debate Reveals About Academic Publishing
Plamen Miltenoff Peer review determines what academia accepts as credible knowledge. It shapes publication, funding, promotion, curriculum, and research visibility. If artificial intelligence changes peer review, it changes one of the core systems through which...
Goals Before Tools: Understanding by Design and Teaching with AI
Plamen Miltenoff The rapid growth of generative AI is forcing educators to rethink curriculum, assessment, and evidence of learning. Current discussions about AI integration begin with the wrong question: “Which AI tool should we use?” Understanding by Design and...
TPACK in the Age of AI: Comparing Mishra et a., Kharbach, and Ning et al.
(текст на български по долу) Artificial intelligence is forcing education to reconsider what teachers need to know and how learning should be designed. One of the most influential frameworks for understanding technology integration in teaching is TPACK, Technological...
Assessment, Academic Integrity, and AI: From Tyler to Dawson
Оценяване, академична почтеност и ИИ: от Тайлър до Доусън How do educators know students have truly learned? Generative AI systems can now produce essays, reports, presentations, summaries, code, and even explanations that often appear academically competent. This...
Curriculum, Assessment, and AI: What Tyler and Wiggins Still Teach Us About Learning
Учебна програма, оценяване и ИИ: какво още ни учат Тайлър и Уигинс за ученето Part 1 Artificial intelligence is forcing educators to revisit old pedagogical questions with new urgency. Digital technologies, especially generative AI, currently produce essays,...