Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

"Teaching AI Literacy and Preserving Assessment Integrity are not the same problem," writes Mike Kentz. This should be obvious but apparently the issues are being conflated in meetings convened to address 'the AI problem'. "The key insight: assessment integrity can be preserved or rebuilt without involving AI literacy at all. AI literacy can be built without navigating around AI cheating. These are separate tracks aiming at separate outcomes." For those who are wondering: breaking complex problems down into simpler parts is known as the Cartesian method, and was introduced in his Discourse on Method (1637). 

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