Sunday, April 14, 2024

There are No Shortcuts to Thinking: Promise in the way students are already using AI as a learning tool - Dan Sarofian-Butin, Education Next

I really thought everyone would cheat. That’s why I was shocked by their responses. “I use it the same way we use it for this class,” one student wrote. isten, therefore, to what another one of my students wrote: “I use ChatGPT as my TA and for it to give me extra help with brainstorming different ideas, like I would with any other person.” Dear reader, let that sink in: “like I would with any other person.” Let me be clear: I am not trying to anthropomorphize ChatGPT or pretend that it can solve all of the woes of higher education. Rather, I think we are at a crossroads with AI.