“if it was a subject that I felt more comfortable with or more familiar with. But something that is very challenging to me, I think I would omit music.”
People who are comfortable with a task are able to feel more relaxed without having to turn to music to comfort/motivate them.
“Even if it’s instrumental, I feel the need to focus on the music rather than what I’m reading,”
This makes me think about how noise rhythm can affect cognitive function.
“I use music as one of the biggest motivations to study, especially when it’s something I’m not interested in. I am good at recognizing that and using that to my advantage,”
Motivation can lead to better engagement.
especially when the music is fast and loud, or when it has lyrics.
I wonder if calming music without lyrics can disprove what these researchers claim.
However, there is no single answer to whether music helps learners study or not
Although there was a hypothesized paper written about the connection to music and learning, there has been no proven answer to if music actually helps or is just a distraction
“What counts as plagiarism? What are the conditions, if any, we should place on AI-assistance for student writing?” This stood out to me because AI makes plagiarism more complicated. For example, if a student asks AI to help them with an essay like tools and or grammar checks, it's hard to tell how much of the essay is actually the student's work.
“And how might working with AI change the way we think about writing, authenticity, and creativity?” Something about this quote interests me because AI could change what we consider “original writing”. Writers have always learned and borrowed ideas from others to help them create their own piece but AI can make/generate entire pieces of writing. This makes me wonder whether a person can truly be able to claim something as their own when AI was the one to contribute to creating the work?
“But students discovered that this was not easy at all. Most reported (87%) that it became far more complicated than just writing the paper themselves.” This quote shows that AI isn’t as much of a short cut as people and researchers like to think. When students use AI they have to take the time to fix the mistakes it makes, keep it on topic, and also fit in writing their own ideas. How much time does using AI actually save instead of just writing the piece yourself?
“The false information could be classified as cheating a lot more than the actual process itself.” To me this means that they are shifting the topic from AI being considered cheating to the answers that AI gives is actually trust worthy. While AI makes its responses professional, it's never always accurate to what is being asked of it and even if it is false it makes it convincing enough for the person requesting information to not question it.
“Using GPT-2 only deepened their desire for control, as another student echoed: “Ironically, I feel like ‘cheating’ actually sabotaged my ability to write this lab report how I would have liked.’” The ability for AI to do students' work gave students the sense of wanting to do the work themselves. How much does the effect of someone claiming their work to which isn't, actually have on a students mind when it comes to creativity?
“I would say that I still wrote this paper. The difference is that I did not feel like a traditional writer. I felt more like Dr. Frankenstein, stitching together half sentences and incoherent AI words into something more cohesive.” The comparison the student made showed that they viewed themselves as someone who was just assembling and editing ideas rather than just copying. This makes me question whether editing an AI written essay can still count as them writing it themselves.
“That involvement in my thought process turns the use of the generated text from cheating to not cheating.” The student believes that if they are still actively organizing, editing, and still inputting their own ideas they feel that they are still doing as much work as if they were to originally write it from scratch.
“Collectively, my class did not conclude one way or another that writing with AI was tantamount to plagiarism.” This is important because it shows there is no simple answer whether AI use is considered plagiarizing.