Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nyti…
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John Warner
Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
What they're sharing
Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity nytimes.com
AI Drains Spirit Out of Teaching. We Can Get It Back. insidehighered.com
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We Don’t Need to Retreat From the Challenge of AI in Schools insidehighered.com
The Worst Use Case for Generative AI is Writing biblioracle.substack.com
The Worst Use Case for Generative AI is Writing biblioracle.substack.com
What’s College for in the Age of AI? insidehighered.com
We made a writing tutor GPT; here’s what we learned theimportantwork.substack.com
AI Tutors: Hype or Hope for Education? educationnext.org
The AI Novelty Cycle biblioracle.substack.com
Can We Please Stop it with the AI Woo-Woo? biblioracle.substack.com
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John Warner reposted
Yes: "Our first principle should be to work on making student learning visible to students themselves," writes @biblioracle.bsky.social. This is something we need to be talking about more in this moment when it's so easy for students to simulate learning. www.insidehighered.co…
I've not digested Pope Leo's encyclical on technology and AI, but it strikes me that in terms of saying something clear in its message, it helps to start from a place of values. Not coincidentally, this is the same advice I give to higher ed institutions. www.insidehighered.co…
Those who can incorporate LLMs into their writing without de-skilling, disempowerment and dependence are 1. Rare. 2. Extremely proficient as writers. 3. Very knowledgeable about AI affordances. 4. Extremely vigilant. This is not most students. biblioracle.substack.com/p/the-wo…
The worst use for generative AI is "writing." biblioracle.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
I think schools and colleges/universities should be starting with learning and go from there, but this not the way many seem to be considering AI's impact on education. We have to confront the question of what matters and come up with a satisfactory answer. www.insidehighered.…
This piece by high school students shared at @janerosenzweig.bsky.social's The Important Work should be read by anyone working in secondary education, particularly those responsible for providing the resources for the experiences of learning. open.substack.com/pub/theimpor...
It's good that studies are being done to show that AI tutors are not replacements for humans, but we also didn't need them to know this wasn't going to work. Me in 2024 working from experience and information dating back a century: www.educationnext.org/ai-tutors-hy...
On an almost daily basis I'm amazed by some application that a non-technical humanities person spun up using agentic AI & my first reaction is, "Wow that's neat. This is the future. I should jump on this." My later reaction is "wait, what do I need that for?" biblioracle.subst…
Anthropic wants to sprinkle AI woo-woo throughout the world because the mysticism makes their work seem more meaningful and suggests we must tread carefully as we regulate it. Resist the woo-woo! biblioracle.substack.com/p/can-we-ple...
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Not sure what this says about me, but the more I explore the capacities of generative AI the less it interests me. I'm not denying its potential power, just that how it does what it does is not nearly as interesting as the thoughts and expressions of some other, any other, human being.
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