A Case for Skepticism

Critical thinking is dead, but it isn’t ChatGPT who killed it, nor the students who use it. It’s been dead for a long time.

In aggregate, school doesn’t reward thought. It makes no effort to foster it. The students who succeed are not the ones who think the most—it’s the ones who give the most of themselves to the machine. Students must go through

... See more

we found that students exposed to smartboards and digital content actually fared worse in mathematics and writing compared to their peers in classrooms without digital tools.

The reasons were sobering. Teachers had not been adequately trained in using these technologies. Mathematics, which requires cognitive scaffolding and immediate feedback,... See more