Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This short article links to a podcast on zines in education, but I want to highlight this longish quote that is essentially an aside: "there is a lot of concern in education circles around 'AI proofing' one's curricula and the so-called cognitive decline that students are experiencing from the use of AI. I don't think we need to worry about the first issue because it can't be done (any more than you could 'internet proof' your curriculum), and the cognitive decline is based on yet another MIT education study that has too few subjects ('We recruited a total of 54 participants for Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 18 participants among them completed session 4.')." Exactly.

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