- Aug 2024
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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So this fall, he plans to scrap many of his writing assignments, including the experiential-learning one that was once so meaningful to many of his students. “Because of those people at the bottom of the scale making it impossible for me to do my work,” he says of AI users, “all those people at the upper end of the scale will never have that good experience.” Some of those better students might even have chosen to become religious-studies majors.
It is not fair to the students who want to learn and develop their writing skills. There have always been students who will cheat and there always will be, just because there is a new way to do it does not mean that we have to scrap good assignments.
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Many academics feel that there’s a crisis brewing among instructors desperate for support.
Key point
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technology is changing rapidly
often times we do not have a chance to catch up
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usage would undermine academic integrity, students’ critical thinking and writing skills, and creativity
stumping creativity is one of the worst things that could happen to a student and if AI will pose a threat to creativity it should not be used in the classroom
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While 78 percent of administrators said AI tools would have a positive impact on teaching in the next five years, only 46 percent of faculty members felt that way.
There is a massive disconnect between the administrators and the faculty members. Personally I think we should listen to those who are currently in the class room as they have a better understand of what is going on.
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‘I don’t get it. I need help. I want to understand how I need to evolve and adapt in response to this tool.’”
Teachers just like students can not be expected to understand how to use or even if we should use this new pice of technology. To omit confusion there should be a standard policy with AI when it comes to the class room.
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Watkins says he tries to neither despair about AI nor become a cheerleader but instead “adopt a stance of curious skepticism.
I personally have a fear of AI and can only see it ending badly, however this is a much better way of looking at it.
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If we’re not having students do these processes, how are they going to develop those critical-thinking skills that are necessary to do that higher-order work?”
If we are not expected or able to do the little tasks and work through the little difficulties that come with them, there is no way students can be expected to do the more critical difficult ones.
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It’s her job to ensure students develop basic writing skills, and the noticeable uptick in AI use is impeding those efforts.
This is a main point: AI is in some ways impeding students learning
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how they would feel if he used the AI reading assistant to grade their essays. “They said, ‘You can’t do that;
If students are going to use AI to do there assignment teachers should be allowed to us it to grade. If you don't want your teacher to use it then you shouldn't be using it either.
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‘This is amazing. I no longer have to read ever again for anything I have to do because it turns any sort of digital document into a CliffsNotes on demand.’
This reminds me of the last reading "Is this the End of Reading" because they are explaining how no one really wants to do the work
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We have to think about learning itself,
Is there a future where we no longer try to learn anything, and just let AI be out intelligence?
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AI abuse is a problem but focus instead on how AI could enhance learning
Its seems like this is the only way, AI is obviously not going anywhere. We must adapt to having AI in our wheel house.
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concern that students who cheat could end up getting the same grades as those who did the work
Can the AI really sound like a human? If so, that is scary to me.
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25 percent of his students at the Canadian institution used generative AI in their assignments.
To me this 25% is not students using AI as a tool, it is students being lazy and making the AI do all the work so they don't have to.
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www.owl.purdue.edu www.owl.purdue.edu
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Try to imagine an audience that would be interested in and benefit from your research.
Students who want to become better readers, would be a great audience to think of.
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approach the audience of a research paper in the same way one would when preparing for an oral presentation.
This is a good way to approach finding an audience, because I often don't quite know who I should be writing to when writing research papers.
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