chose instrumental music over lyrical music, often to drown out distracting background noise and improve their focus.
I usually listen to calm lyric less soundtracks of movies or even video games, and at the same time it feels very therapeutic to me.
Approximately 70% said they listened to music when solving math problems
I've never done this before. The thought has never crossed my mind, but it sounds like it could be a good idea for me to try
Others have found that listening to music interferes with thinking, especially when the music is fast and loud, or when it has lyrics.
This is very true for me, it ultimately distracts me more and gets me focused on the lyrics of the song.
Listening to music is a common strategy students use to try to stay focused.
I use this to help myself sometimes when I'm having trouble focusing on work
"Yet many students were also surprised by the degree to which GPT-2 seemed to resemble or even anticipate their own thoughts. For some, the writing partnership even worked nicely: “I was genuinely surprised with how well some of the content flowed with my personal writing and how it continued to sound like me.”
It's scary to think that these programs are becoming advanced enough to accurately predict what the next thoughts are likely to come out of a users mind.
"The risks of such AI-generated misinformation have certainly been noted" AI is 100% being used today in self-operated propaganda profiles across social media. It can create claims and stories that almost seem plausible at first glance.
"All reported that GPT-2’s outputs were difficult to control and often strayed off topic or into nonsense. They had to keep giving GPT-2 “a shove in the right direction,” and then wrestle its outputs back into their contexts"
I find this really interesting. With a lot of the new AI videos, you can see a similar trend. They usually are very good in short form content but tend to lose detail and context of what the story is actually about, like how GPT-2 couldn't write for very long before it lost its way.
"Basically, they could enter their own text and have the model generate chunks of what it predicted came next. From that point on, “writing” the paper was up to them" This is an insanely scary technological advancement. If students realize they can start using AI like this to get out of work, nobody would be actually learning anything.
"For the course’s final module on AI, students had to write an essay that integrated the output from a text-generating language model into their own writing—but without reveal- ing which was which" I believe that it would be too difficult to blur the line between the AI and your own tone and style of writing. The only way I could see this working was if you gave a sample writing the AI could review and try to replicate a similar style.
"ongoing exercises whose aim is to compose new capacities for conducting ourselves within expanded media ecologies” With technology continuing to advance and change our worldview, we too have to grow and understand the changes happening.
"And what potential risks and harms must we navigate? “Cheating” offers a starting point" I feel like cheating is the most basic response to the use of AI. To me what's more worrying is the fact that AI can be used as a crutch that doesn't require students to actually learn and grow into a unique individual.
"As Grant Otsuki argues, there’s no putting the AI genie back in the bottle and little sense banning its use outright" I completely agree, there's no way AI can outright be banned or removed because you can find access to it literally everywhere.
it feels like some people will work harder to cheat on a paper with AI rather than just write the paper.
I don't think AI is the best, but I do believe it can be used responsibly without abusing it
I have no idea what the word "pedagogical" means
"Critical thinking requires us to use ourimagination
With AI platforms making almost everything the quick and easy solution, lots of people are losing their creativity and critical thinking skills.
Critical thinking is an interactive process, one that demandsparticipation on the part of teacher and students alike
most kids are too embarrassed to contribute or don't want to say anything that's "wrong"
Everyone is participating and sharing whatever resource isneeded at a given moment
It's so much easier to join in when everyone else is already participating
to become attached to and protective of one's viewpoint,and to rule out other perspectives.
I see this kind of thing a lot on the news and social media. Nobody wants to take a second to understand the other side of an opinion
thinking as anaction.
I've never viewed it this way. That change in perspective gives it more powerful meaning.
They further define critical thinking as "self-directed,self-disciplined, self-monitored and self corrective."
Sounds like you have to work out your brain like it was a muscle, you don't get strong by not working out, and you don't get better at thinking by not thinking.
that all they will need to do is consume information andregurgitate it at the appropriate moments
this is what high school felt like for me. Lots of memorization, not actually understanding what you memorized.
The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing toknow-to understand how life works
we're all curious by nature. We want to know anything and everything.