my qiestion is about AI in educationn. for example, if i asked to read an argumentative book, then to distinguish arguments in terms of premises and conclusion, and then make an evaluation on whether the arguments were sound and cogent, can’t i simply load the text to AI and ask for the arguments and an evaluation. it seems the education is in knowing what I am asking AI to do, and perhaps make an independent judgment of the performance. Elaborate and evaluate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’ve raised a highly relevant and thoughtful question about the evolving role of AI in education<\/strong>, particularly in the context of critical thinking tasks like analyzing arguments<\/strong> in a book. Let\u2019s unpack and evaluate your point in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You propose that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If students are asked to analyze a book\u2014identify arguments, break them into premises and conclusions, and evaluate their soundness\u2014they could just use AI to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, the real educational value may lie not in doing the task manually, but in knowing how to instruct AI to perform the task<\/strong> and in judging its output.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s break this into key ideas and evaluate them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes \u2014 AI (like me) can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evaluation<\/strong>: This is already true for many well-written argumentative texts. AI can perform this task competently, especially with clearly structured writing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Your insight is that the educational focus shifts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s a paradigm shift<\/em> \u2014 from doing<\/em> to orchestrating and critiquing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Evaluation<\/strong>: This aligns with broader changes in education and work \u2014 knowing how to work with tools<\/em> (especially intelligent ones) is increasingly more important than doing everything without them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n To effectively use AI in this way, students must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caveat<\/strong>: Blindly trusting AI would defeat the purpose of education. Students still need a base of critical thinking and logic to assess the AI’s performance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Evaluation<\/strong>: This encourages meta-cognitive skills<\/strong> \u2014 thinking about thinking \u2014 which are highly valuable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If your reasoning holds, here\u2019s what it suggests about the future of education:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, AI can do much of the heavy lifting in tasks like argument analysis. But the educational value now lies in knowing what to ask AI, how to interpret its response, and how to challenge or refine it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n This isn\u2019t a loss<\/em> of education\u2014it\u2019s a transformation<\/em>. Like the calculator changed math instruction, AI will (and should) change how we teach thinking and analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn an era of AI-assisted learning, education should focus less on manual cognitive labor and more on developing students\u2019 ability to collaborate with AI through strategic prompting and critical evaluation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" my qiestion is about AI in educationn. for example, if i asked to read an argumentative book, then to distinguish arguments in terms of premises and conclusion, and then make an evaluation on whether the arguments were sound and cogent, can’t i simply load the text to AI and ask for the arguments and an … Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Education”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-assist","category-bullshit-in-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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