Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Audreay Watters announces, "I'm back to writing about ed-tech (and no surprise, AI)," and weighs in with this contribution mostly on the debate over whether people still read books. Concerned that "we've fully embraced a series of beliefs and technologies that are profoundly anti-reading, and as such, we're spiraling farther down into a deeply anti-intellectual, anti-education period of history," Watters argues, "AI in education demonstrates that we do not care."

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