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I asked Wendy if I could read the paper she turned in, and when I opened the document, I was surprised to see the topic: critical pedagogy, the philosophy of education pioneered by Paulo Freire. The philosophy examines the influence of social and political forces on learning and classroom dynamics. Her opening line: “To what extent is schooling hindering students’ cognitive ability to think critically?” Later, I asked Wendy if she recognized the irony in using AI to write not just a paper on critical pedagogy but one that argues learning is what “makes us truly human.” She wasn’t sure what to make of the question. “I use AI a lot. Like, every day,” she said. “And I do believe it could take away that critical-thinking part. But it’s just — now that we rely on it, we can’t really imagine living without it.”
Oh, that sucks.
Maybe it’s a problem with younger people, I’m a mature student at University and most of my peers express disgust towards AI for the environmental toll. Mind you I am doing an ecology degree so that might be why.
I have had professors encourage us to use AI though, which is weird.
It is sad that parents are encouraging it too. No one has the time to parent their children, so no wonder.
yep, that’s probably it
Not only because of the impact on the environment, but also because its a degree path that’s less likely to attract a lot of “I just need to get through this and get a profitable degree that will let me get a good job” types. I’m still surprised you aren’t seeing it a little bit though. I guess you might not know? idk
Yeah you’re probably right about that.
I do see small amount of AI stans, but very minor and strangely from 2 professors I’ve had lol
That’s so frustrating jfc
I have coworkers who constantly trip over themselves to use it and don’t seem to realize that it leads them astray more often than it helps them.
I refuse to use AI for anything other than maybe helping my ADHD ass understand instructions if they are very vague or flowery. Even then I take it with a lot of skepticism and double check with other sources.
I once asked a professor to explain how to do something and they said “I’m not going to do it for you”
I… I just wanted you to teach me? That’s what I’m going into 100k debt for?
In med school most people are AI stans even though it’s often useless because it can’t fetch the newest info or doesn’t have anything detailed on the topic. People will ask questions about a certain topic and inevitably no matter how much actual explanation has been done someone will send a screenshot of ChatGPT. Sometimes people will insist exam questions are incorrect because ChatGPT says a different, obviously incorrect thing. I’ve seen a dude not listen to the teacher in class and ask ChatGPT in real time when the teacher was giving a very clear explanation.
Worst, we’ve had our school give conferences on “Using AI to boost productivity” to med students.
most people i know (undergrad linguistics) seem pretty anti-AI, but that might just be the people i know, and those are also largely the people who seem to have more of an interest in linguistics. it’s also possible there’s some effect of it just being kind of bad for a fair amount of the sorts of things we need to do (at least when i played around with it maybe a year ago it was pretty bad at dealing with sound changes for example)
My experience as a mature student has been similar, I’ve had a couple of people in group projects try to use AI and get resoundingly mocked for it by the rest of the group. Which was kinda vindicating.
Watching the uni policy on it evolve over the last couple years has been interesting. For a while individual unit heads would just have their own policies so it ranged from “AI = insta-fail” to “you can use AI to help with phrasing in your writing but provide examples of how”.
Now the uni seems to have settled on a cohesive policy of not allowing it for writing, but encouraging its use for summarising articles before reading them to determine relevancy, or rubber ducking your own work.