Anastasia Berg: "Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial intelligence tools, contrary to my explicit policy, to write their final take-home exams. (Ironically, the course was titled Contemporary Moral Problems: The Value of Human Life.) I had asked them about some very recent work in philosophy, parts of which happened to share titles with entirely different ideas in medieval theology. You can guess which topics the students ended up “writing” about. " Well, of course they did! What I just can’t get over is the ... social.ayjay.org

@ayjay This is what’s making me batty right now. No shortage of strongly worded and high-minded principles! Very little will to provide the guardrails of accompaniment. Total foreclosure of the formation model of education (at least in all the places I’ve taught). I keep trying to raise it…

@ablerism We can but strive! But the problem with that particular piece is, I think, a failure to recognize even the most basic conditions on the ground. Any model of education has to start with reality. And for me, anyway, recognizing the reality has freed me to try some pedagogical experiments I never before would have dared try.

@bethanyh It’s so true. At least in design, which is so squarely pre-professional, there’s a lot of ambivalence: like, well, I guess these tools are going to be expected in the respective industries, so… what are our policies again?? (I run an analog classroom these days, and it’s going well!)