This new study underscores one of my biggest objections to the use of AI in the classroom. For me, those objections fall into 3 categories: 1) the environmental impact; 2) cognitive offloading and ... 1/2 https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
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FINALLY. FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT DECLINING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS. though I'm somewhat convinced that such skills are very, very difficult if not impossible to teach beyond people's teens, and a gloss over this study seems to have a lot of correlation, but you know the old chestnut about that
there should probably be more investigation to affirm and reinforce these correlative findings through different analytic approaches, and maybe branch into analysis of result quality/accuracy through brainstorming/collaboration with human peers vs brainstorming with AI
My mom went back to college in her 40s and earned two master's degrees after life as a house wife. She said her entire perspective and thinking changed as a result of school, so I'll disagree that you can't teach critical thinking after the teens.
Though I also recognize that she's one person... So I'll also cite the dozens of returning students I get in my classes who, in my experience, have learned critical thinking in my classes and have also claimed it changed their whole perspective.
Thanks. What they report in terms of student learning matches the changes I've seen over the last couple years. It's good to have some terms too: "cognitive offloading" is nice and I will start using it.
the effect on student learning—which is the subject of the paper; and 3) using AI for the parts of teaching that benefit most from relationality and human engagement. 2/2
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I'm sympathetic to the hypothesis but this is not a good analysis