Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
I like how this section uses the terms 'natural growth' and 'instrument' to describe language.
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- Jan 2025
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And apps such as TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram have shifted our reading habits toward short and often fragmentary text.
our attentnion span is so short because everything we see and read now is all shortened down and doesn't require all of our brain power.
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“Note-taking now requires specific instruction on what to write down and how to organize it. Also, a lot of students are unable to rephrase a statement without changing the meaning, often in drastic ways that clearly contradict the core of the statement.”
Simple tasks like note taking are becoming a chore, and hard for students to do correctly and efficently.
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“meet your students where they are.”
I like this mindset for teachers. I don't think teachers should give students too much work, or not enough, but rather focus on figuring out what they do know and finding a balance.
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“I still feel a little guilty about using AI,” he says. “But it worked.”
A lot of teachers are realizing its easier to just use AI then fight it or ignore it.
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What might have been true of AI’s capabilities or how to AI-proof an assignment a semester ago might not be true today.
AI is changing so fast that no one even knows what could be different in a day or a year compared to today.
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Only 23 percent of students said they had never used generative AI,
there is such a small percentage of people who havne't used AI, and this number will definitley keep decreasing.
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he is careful, he says, to design questions that he thinks AI would do a mediocre job answering, at best.
Teachers jobs are becoming a whole lot harder and complicated due to AI, they have to rethink all their lessons/tests to make sure its not something AI can easily solve.
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we are doing them a disservice if we’re not distinguishing between what is acceptable and what is not,”
This is a good point to also bring into view, that every student is on a different path/skill level in college, so it wouldn't be helpful at all to just use AI to pass and get away with doing the bare minimum.
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how they would feel if he used the AI reading assistant to grade their essays. “They said, ‘You can’t do that; you’ll be fired.’”
This was a really good point for the professor to bring up, and put it into perspective for the students to see how AI would impact them personally.
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The lack of guidance and training is of particular concern, experts say, because AI will soon be everywhere.
This sentence really emphasizes why AI is such a concern. It isn't going away, so we have to learn how to deal with it sooner rather than later since its developing at such a fast rate.
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“I’m grading fake papers instead of playing with my own kids.”
This is so powerful because it really shows the perspective of a professor who just wants students to develop skills, and that AI affects everybody.
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A few didn’t know they had used generative AI because it’s embedded in so many other tools, like Grammarly.
This is so interesting to me, because AI is becoming so known and such a casual thing in the world that there are times people don't even realize its being used, which can be scary moving forward.
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