Stephen Downes

This is a short post from Clark Aldrich arguing we should block all AI from schools and, concurrently, limit all homework assignment to work done at school. "This means re-inventing classrooms completely. They must become hotbeds of debating, and experimenting, and designing, and prototyping." The idea (as oft-repeated elsewhere) is that this forces students to learn the cognitive skills they need, instead of having AI perform them for them. I can see why people would want to do this, in the early days of AI. The the argument works long-term only if the skills students need to develop pre-AI are the same as they need to develop post-AI, and don't depend on actually using AI to develop them. I haven't seen anyone make that argument convincingly.