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Marcus Luther's avatar

"AI is now being used by students to learn the material we want to see students show us within those proctored assessments. Learning itself, not simply assessment, is now being impacted by AI."

This is the line that has me ruminating most right now, in thinking about how this impacts skills-driven learning compared to content-driven learning; how to continue to center the process over the product (and make sure the AI "learning" isn't skipping past the process to the detriment of the learner); and how to the skills themselves that are centered in our courses may need to evolve in the years ahead, given the technological capabilities.

Appreciative of this post!

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Stephen Fitzpatrick's avatar

Yes to all of this. It's unfortunate that most teacher's are having conversations about AI as if it's 2023 compounded by the fact that those who opt out are fairly ignorant about what their current capabilities are which are significantly more advanced. But if the conversation moves to safer and more familiar pedagogical ground about the skills and habits that enable the productive use of any tool, let alone AI, that may be the better focus. But the using AI to learn the material itself is very real - I have had multiple conversations with teachers and students in the past few weeks with the key takeaway that poor professors, lousy teachers, and bad communicators are extremely vulnerable. Kids are just going around them and using AI to learn the content. Not sure that's their fault.

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