Post-apocalyptic education
Ethan Mollick,
One Useful Thing,
Aug 30, 2024
"We need to center teachers in the process of using AI, rather than just leaving AI to students (or to those who dream of replacing teachers entirely)." writes Ethan Mollick. There's "a useful path forward in AI for education, using it as a co-intelligence and tool for helping humans do better thinking... The goal isn't to outsmart AI or to pretend it doesn't exist, but to harness its potential to enhance education while mitigating the downside." I think this is right, but it also requires rethinking what we're up to in education. If it's just to transfer content knowledge, well, we don't need that any more. What we do need in a world of AI are more general capacities - criticial thinking, imagination and creativity, problem solving. Then AI becomes a powerful and helpful learning tool.
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