Cheating or Learning? Walking the AI tightrope in education | Erik Winerö | TEDxGöteborg

[AlexGrech]

Erik was the first person with whom I had a meaningful conversation on Generative AI, and how disruptive ChatGPT was likely to be to the entire education ecosystem. So pleased to see this in English.

[languagepool-germanusingli]

This is the most reasonable thing I've come across so far. 'Write the work yourself and ask cgpt for feedback'. Exactly so. How do we spread this message? Great talk. Great development of a logical argument.

[silviealnas]

Erik, you are taking learning sciences, teaching and evaluation of learning to a whole new level! Thank you for an "eye-opening BIG TIME!"

[lindawalton]

Thoroughly enjoyed your perspective on this topic. Thank you. I am now quoting you in my Masters paper about AI in the curriculum.

[mariatevellgobert]

So interesting! I love the comparison with pole vaulting, makes me think about how to define things in general. Thank you!

[katekennedy]

Thank you, Erik, for this insightful talk on AI in education. You've broadened my perspective by discussing possibilities and problems in a thoughtful way.

[elias.knotman]

This was an interesting presentation, Erik, thank you. To take the example of the use AI to summarise academic texts, it can happen that learners become increasingly dependent on AI tools, much to the detriment of their reading skills, which require extensive practice to develop automaticity. Those who already can, benefit; those who can't, lose even more - in the worst case. What some call the Matthew effect.

I do question, however, whether we can ask AI to help us approach difficulty like you say; the problem isn't more information. It's usually apparent what we must do; it's the will to carry things through. Don't AI tools - product-oriented as you say - work in the opposite direction, and always reduce friction wherever they find it?

[carolinasilvestro]

Thank you for bringing light into such a dark matter. Great talk!

[emilcevela]

Así a teacher I understand what you mean AND I completely agree with your line of thought, I think we need time to work on this path AND towards this goal

[roelmontez]

I understand that using analogies might help to explain a concept. However, none of your analogies address the issue of students not using their critical thinking skills becasue an app, webpage or a software can do the thinking for them. I am a mathematics teacher and it is incredibly the lack of rational and critical thinking students have. Having the ability to input a prompt and getting a whole essay/anwer is not going to help improve student's thinking skills. I get it that AI utilized well has a huge positive impact; however, hoping that most students do not use AI to cheat is simply naive...

[jmmwilson]

Was there any practical advise in this? Like a couple of examples perhaps? Of what would be cheating???

[katherandefy]

Solution is that quite a few teachers are often not there to teach at all but to have a job for a paycheck.

The question of AI grading would not run afoul with teachers who love their job. Because they care and would use AI efficiently not blithely and carelessly.

Really.

The same is true of students. They are not a different human. Or a beast. Not that we are saying that.

Point taken though.

[jrod]

It's given Olivia Dunne more time to pursue her career and not have to deal so much with her online classes.