Notes on AI and teaching

What we are reading about AI in schools, and what we make of it.

Cognitive surrender, and where the habit forms

The New York Times, via GV Wire

An MIT committee reports that AI use is producing "cognitive surrender" and an illusion of learning. Universities are going three different directions about it. The students they are describing learned the habit in high school.

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Students asking for instruction

Tony Frontier, Educational Leadership, ISTE+ASCD

Focus groups with more than 250 high school juniors and seniors across 20 schools. About 85 percent use AI for schoolwork, and what they say they want from teachers is instruction rather than a ruling.

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