Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I am sympathetic with the main thrust of this argument. "The dominant discourse around AI in education - even when well-meaning - remains trapped within a humanist epistemology that misrepresents how cognition unfolds in AI-human systems," writes J. Owen Matson. "What is needed is not a defense of human uniqueness, but a reconfiguration of our epistemological assumptions—one that embraces a posthumanist understanding of learning as dialogic, unpredictable, and co-constructed across systems of human and machinic interaction." With Matson, "I resist the underlying premise of augmentation when it assumes a stable subject whose agency is simply extended or 'boosted' by AI - rather than fundamentally transformed through its entanglement with machinic systems."

Today: Total: [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2025
Last Updated: Aug 28, 2025 9:15 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.