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The latest edition of our Keeping Up With... series, featuring a discussion of AI Ethics by Brandi Hart, is now available on our website. https://bit.ly/3XCx2ta #AI
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November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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🎙️Did you know Canva can help students script, record, design, and share a classroom podcast?

It’s a powerful tool to bring student voice to life—visually + creatively!

🔗 www.canva.com/design/DAGle...

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November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.

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How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Looking for some simple AI writing tools to help you?
Check out TinyWow's numerous tools!

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November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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18 Of The Best Formative Assessment Tools For Digital Exit Tickets #EdTech
#edusky #TLSky #teachers #education #educators
18 Of The Best Formative Assessment Tools For Digital Exit Tickets
18 of the best formative assessment tools for teachers--to glean data, take snapshots of understanding, create digital exit slips, and more. Source
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Improve accessibility in your office or classroom with practical ideas from CAST experts. Join the next CAST Café on November 6 at 4 pm ET.

Register once for the monthly series on the CAST website: www.cast.org/connect/even...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Our newest issue of Tips and Trends is live! Check it out here: bit.ly/tipsandtrend.... This issue discusses AI text detectors, their functionality, discourse surrounding their use in higher education, and implications for instructional librarians. What's your take on AI detectors?
Tips and Trends: AI Text Detectors | Instruction Section Website
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October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In our latest ✨AI Tools for Academic Libraries ✨ the Ontario Council of University Libraries examines the product landscape of AI tools for coding and programming ow.ly/8AVX50X7IKo #AICoding #AI
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October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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In the newly released 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition, our expert panelists identify and examine the most influential trends shaping teaching and learning in higher education across five categories: social, technological, economic, environmental, and policy

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2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Data and Analytics Edition Social Trends The need for effective data governance is growing. Institutions will need to focus on key efforts such as developing policies for the use of data in AI, addressing ethical & privacy concerns, clarifying data ownership, & managing both structured & unstructured data sources. Critical data-related literacies are persistently lacking. Institutions should clearly define data literacy, embed it into governance frameworks, & integrate it into professional development & learning opportunities. Moving forward, investing in people will be just as critical—if not more so—than investing in analytics platforms. Concerns about the need for human oversight in AI are growing. Policies that define when & how human oversight is needed & discourage reliance on tools & systems that lack transparency will be essential. AI should augment—not replace—human decision-making. Institutions that embrace this balance will be better equipped to ensure the ethical, equitable, & accountable use of AI.
October 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The Learning Experience features Kris Astle (SMART Technologies) and Dr. Matt Harrison on centering neurodivergent student voices in edtech, with 36 UDL-aligned recommendations.

Listen to the episode: www.cast.org/resources/ti...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Wait Time in Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?... #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning
elearn Magazine: Wait Time in Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning
eLearn Magazine is a leading source of high-quality information on the uses of online learning and training strategies in a variety of contexts for K-12, higher education, and the corporate workforce....
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October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The impact of digital technologies on students’ learning #edtech
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-impact-of-digital-technologies-on-students-learning_9997e7b3-en.html

This working paper shares findings of a literature review examining the impact of a range of digital tools on student […]
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October 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Articles on showcasing sustainability, environmental costs of digital archives, encouraging civic engagement, the first installment of a four-part series on making assessment matter, and more await you in the October issue of C&RL News. https://bit.ly/48MnouT
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October 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Interesting in using HathiTrust for library instruction? Check out this helpful guide on accessing its collections.
hathitrust.bsky.social HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social · Sep 25
Curious about accessing HathiTrust's 19 million items? What you can download depends on copyright, login, and library affiliation. Visit the Help Center for more info #digitallibraries #trusty: buff.ly/7HYKXhw
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September 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review" by Erica Lynn DeFrain, Leslie Sult, Nicole Pagowsky (C&RL) rebrand.ly/eawa2ne
Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review | DeFrain | College & Research Libraries
Effectiveness of Academic Library Research Guides for Building College Students’ Information Literacy Skills: A Scoping Review
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September 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Do you work with open educational resources (OERs) and have a success story to share? Consider proposing a session for the Open for Student Success Symposium, hosted by Georgia State University Library: research.library.gsu.edu/open
GSU Library Research Guides: Open for Student Success Symposium: Call for Proposals
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September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Check out this list of back to school tech tools, which includes a section on tools for higher education ⬇️
techlearning.bsky.social TechLearning @techlearning.bsky.social · Sep 17
Announcing the winners of our 2025 "Best Tools for Back to School" Awards of Excellence! Our judges evaluated products based on their versatility, value, and ability to solve specific problems & support innovative teaching & learning.
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Tech & Learning Announces the 2025 Winners of Its Best for Back to School Contest
This annual contest recognizes outstanding education products that support effective teaching and learning as teachers and students head back to school
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September 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Attention LibGuides users! Check out this upcoming panel from the Library Accessibility Alliance: Building Accessible LibGuides: A Panel on Policies, Workflows, and the ADA Update. Learn more and register here: www.libraryaccessibility.org/events/build...
Building Accessible LibGuides: A Panel on Policies, Workflows, and the ADA Update
As libraries prepare for the upcoming ADA law update, accessibility is more urgent—and more achievable—than ever. Remediating existing LibGuides for accessibility and updating internal LibGuide workfl...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool built for the classroom as well as for remote education. #edtech #EduSky
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What is Mentimeter and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? What's New?
Mentimeter, now with AI updates, makes presentations ideal for teaching with quizzes and more
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September 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Looking for more reading on AI in libraries? Check out the most recent issue of Library Trends (Volume 73, Number 4, May 2025) for a special issue on Generative AI and Libraries: Applications and Ethics! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55500
Project MUSE - Library Trends-Volume 73, Number 4, May 2025
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September 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Learn how academic libraries can embed library resources within an LMS to foster #infolit skills among students from librarian Jamia Williams ow.ly/VUMl50WV9xf #LibrarianLife #StudentSuccess
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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On September 15, WIRED is gathering a panel of leaders across tech, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI. From US Senator Richard Blumenthal to Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc., join us here:
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Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit
On September 15, WIRED is gathering a panel of leaders across technology, politics, and media to tell you everything you need to know about the future of generative AI.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The September issue of "College & Research Libraries" - featuring articles on autistic librarians in the hiring process, Texas library workers on censorship, #AI as a potential #infolit ally, and more - is now freely available on the journal website. https://bit.ly/46q23pv
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September 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Guided learning is integrated into Gemini and builds on LearnLM--a family of AI models designed for education and based on learning science principles. #edtech #AI #EduSky
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Gemini’s Guided Learning Mode From Google AI: What Educators Need To Know
Gemini’s new learning mode is built on educational science, and that helps set it apart from some of the competition in our tests.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Teachers, curious about AI? Join Connor Mulvaney for CAST’s new UDL and AI Expert Chats. Explore AI in classrooms and low-resource schools.

Bring your questions. Save your seat → cast-org.zoom.us/j/87910770564
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September 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM