Dean Shareski discusses a recent post from Clay Shirkey on the idea that students are not learning when they depend on AI do do the work. Now Shirkey's observations are based on "talking with professors and students" and are going to be biased in a certain direction. Still. Shareski responds "I've been pushing the idea of productive struggle as a primary goal of school." But it's a struggle between the desire to make things easier and the need to do the hard thinking required in order to learn. But the real problem, I think (and the reason why Shirkey's bias is problematic) is that the previous generation (ie., us, the teachers) aren't really able to imagine what's hard for students who are able to use AI. We're going to have to depend on the students to find this for themselves, and to help them value doing that.
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