Reading this made me think that perhaps what could help address this problem is an AI interface designed for student learning. Perhaps such a thing exists already. A school could say "use of AI is allowed but it has to be this AI," and it would be a chat bot designed by educators, that responded to questions not with spoon-fed answers, but with questions back in response -- a conversation, if you will -- offering help, but not before asking the kinds of questions a teacher would ask in office hours. What do you think the answer is? How should I go about finding out if that's right? Where would you like me to look? How would you suggest structuring the answer? Or in writing, which of these is your core argument? etc.
“It’s a complicated view: AI helps me, and I’m losing something.” I have a feeling a lot of the general AI backlash is because adults can describe social media the exact same way. And with the AI Tech Bros all talking about inevitability, I think a lot of people are saying, “No, we get a say this time. You guys aren’t doing this to us again.” I could be wrong.
My student attends an independent international school. It has already spent a year and a half “studying” internet safety with no guidance for parents - and now we have further pressures with highly sophisticated AI tools that teachers are deploying at variable rates. I’m afraid it will be yet another year of study with no conclusions. Parents can self organize and forge ahead to develop guides for families but it feels like a looming and large disconnect w educators if that happens.
Reading this made me think that perhaps what could help address this problem is an AI interface designed for student learning. Perhaps such a thing exists already. A school could say "use of AI is allowed but it has to be this AI," and it would be a chat bot designed by educators, that responded to questions not with spoon-fed answers, but with questions back in response -- a conversation, if you will -- offering help, but not before asking the kinds of questions a teacher would ask in office hours. What do you think the answer is? How should I go about finding out if that's right? Where would you like me to look? How would you suggest structuring the answer? Or in writing, which of these is your core argument? etc.
Exactly it is ruining creative thinking and the ability to stretch our own minds
“It’s a complicated view: AI helps me, and I’m losing something.” I have a feeling a lot of the general AI backlash is because adults can describe social media the exact same way. And with the AI Tech Bros all talking about inevitability, I think a lot of people are saying, “No, we get a say this time. You guys aren’t doing this to us again.” I could be wrong.
My student attends an independent international school. It has already spent a year and a half “studying” internet safety with no guidance for parents - and now we have further pressures with highly sophisticated AI tools that teachers are deploying at variable rates. I’m afraid it will be yet another year of study with no conclusions. Parents can self organize and forge ahead to develop guides for families but it feels like a looming and large disconnect w educators if that happens.
Yes, I read this in “The 74” today and look forward to reading your article, too.