I'm sure this article will resonate with a lot of educators because (a) it speaks to how AI takes away from learning, and (b) because it introduces the concept of care to expertise. But I think each of these is an error. For the first, Shaun Bell asks, "what does 'learning' mean when access or retrieval is effortless, when drafting is outsourced, when a conversational agent can simulate understanding on demand?" I've argued before that learning isn't (and never was) any of these things. For the second part, Bell sets up what is needed: "the scarce resource becomes something else: sustained attention, relational responsiveness, and giving space and time for the slow formation of judgement." And this sets up the case for care. But the model Bell is working with is the care of a parent for a child - and that just seems to be to be the wrong frame in which to view either care or expertise. Via Paul Walk.
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