One of my favorite moments from today was when I student I taught two years ago walked into my classroom and said, “Hey, I’m wondering if I could get your thoughts on this paper I’m writing.”
I must admit I was hoping you'd show us the kind of feedback AI would have given Raymond Carver.
If a company can train an AI to emulate a professional writing tutor and provide that affordably to public community colleges that would be wonderful. If individual students and faculty uncritically adopt random AI to offload teaching/learning work they didn't value enough to engage in thoughtfully then we've got problems AI cannot fix.
This post is spot on in a whole number of ways. I can attest that there is a massive movement underway to get cell phones out of schools. The jury is in and the digital distractions that cell phones (and even Chromebooks) cause far outweighs any kind of benefits they might offer for learning. I watched the OpenAI demo and wondered who these upgrades were for. I get that interacting with the world is fascinating and probably where things are ultimately headed, but I just don't see it being used in the way they demonstrated by most people. I'd much rather see a significant upgrade in the quality of output and reduced hallucinations which I don't know are coming anytime soon. The other main thrust of the post about AI feedback is also worth unpacking. The tricky part, as Marc says, is there are some real advantages for students having a basic editor to help them with rough drafts, but teachers entirely offloading feedback and grading to AI is not the solution. The questions are thorny, ethically complex, and technologically challenging and most teachers and educators simply do not have the expertise or capacity to engage in these questions at the moment. Not sure what that means going forward. The landscape in schools with regards to teaching and learning should be vastly different in the short term but I'm not convinced that much will change right away.
One of my favorite moments from today was when I student I taught two years ago walked into my classroom and said, “Hey, I’m wondering if I could get your thoughts on this paper I’m writing.”
I must admit I was hoping you'd show us the kind of feedback AI would have given Raymond Carver.
If a company can train an AI to emulate a professional writing tutor and provide that affordably to public community colleges that would be wonderful. If individual students and faculty uncritically adopt random AI to offload teaching/learning work they didn't value enough to engage in thoughtfully then we've got problems AI cannot fix.
This post is spot on in a whole number of ways. I can attest that there is a massive movement underway to get cell phones out of schools. The jury is in and the digital distractions that cell phones (and even Chromebooks) cause far outweighs any kind of benefits they might offer for learning. I watched the OpenAI demo and wondered who these upgrades were for. I get that interacting with the world is fascinating and probably where things are ultimately headed, but I just don't see it being used in the way they demonstrated by most people. I'd much rather see a significant upgrade in the quality of output and reduced hallucinations which I don't know are coming anytime soon. The other main thrust of the post about AI feedback is also worth unpacking. The tricky part, as Marc says, is there are some real advantages for students having a basic editor to help them with rough drafts, but teachers entirely offloading feedback and grading to AI is not the solution. The questions are thorny, ethically complex, and technologically challenging and most teachers and educators simply do not have the expertise or capacity to engage in these questions at the moment. Not sure what that means going forward. The landscape in schools with regards to teaching and learning should be vastly different in the short term but I'm not convinced that much will change right away.