Stephen Downes

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This is just the first of what will be a series of posts recounting David Wiley's talk at at UNC Charlotte so it would be unfair to judge it prematurely. That won't stop me, though. :) And while I appreciate the 'writing is thinking' line (for me, talking is thinking, but I digress) it doesn't really support the idea that the 'new skill' is prompt writing. The idea does remind me of advice along the lines of saying that the key to being a researcher is 'knowing what questions to ask'. But that would be to misrepresent what 'being a researcher' is, and I think prompt engineering (or as Wiley terms it, 'generative writing') misconstrues what 'thinking with AI' might be.

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