Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is from a column by Kwame Anthony Appiah called 'The Ethicist' that appears in the New York Times. The assertion is that "It's not hypocritical to use A.I. yourself in a way that serves your students well, even as you insist that they don't use it in a way that serves them badly." The reason is that the purposes of the two uses are different: the student is attempting to learn, while the teacher is attempting to support learning.

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