🫧The bubble
ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse)
youtube.comMemorizing facts is becoming less important than knowing how to ask the right questions and evaluate AI-generated responses. Yet this same technology that can accelerate learning also risks creating dependency if we don’t learn to leverage it strategically.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Learning How to Learn
Journalists at ProPublica use AI to comb through thousands of documents, looking for critical moments to use in their exposés. DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts protein structures with near-experimental level accuracy. Neuralink2 uses AI to give paralysed folks the blessing of mobility. Society is accelerating, and your students shouldn’t get left
... See moreEvan Boehs • Is AI Really Killing Critical Thought?
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
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