This is exactly how I’ve reframed my approach to integrating GenAI tasks with students since I took a course with Dr. Jules White from Vanderbilt and Barb Oakley. The learning and tutoring opportunities for students are fruitful and often result in our discussions about writing becoming more detailed.
This is very helpful in framing my approach as a teacher. But what happens when, despite my appeals to students to use AI as a thought partner and not a printer, despite my efforts in the classroom to teach students how to use AI effectively, I still end up a with a large number of research papers that are AI generated. I fear that at the end of the day the temptation to use AI as a substitute for thinking and writing, which are inevitably hard, is just too hard to resist, particularly in a world in which education is viewed in increasingly transactional terms.
This is exactly how I’ve reframed my approach to integrating GenAI tasks with students since I took a course with Dr. Jules White from Vanderbilt and Barb Oakley. The learning and tutoring opportunities for students are fruitful and often result in our discussions about writing becoming more detailed.
Great article!
This aligns well with something I wrote a while ago about the transactional nature of education (and why we need to move away from it).
https://open.substack.com/pub/aigoestocollege/p/beyond-grades-transitioning-from
Really like this post - I actually explored a similar framing recently: https://flynndevine.substack.com/p/make-ai-prompt-you?r=1mzenl.
I think it's definitely time to reimagine the information streams between people and genAI with ideas and prompts flowing both ways.
This is very helpful in framing my approach as a teacher. But what happens when, despite my appeals to students to use AI as a thought partner and not a printer, despite my efforts in the classroom to teach students how to use AI effectively, I still end up a with a large number of research papers that are AI generated. I fear that at the end of the day the temptation to use AI as a substitute for thinking and writing, which are inevitably hard, is just too hard to resist, particularly in a world in which education is viewed in increasingly transactional terms.