Student Success Leaders Worry About Affordability, AI and Diversity
Triple threat to student success: Leaders in higher education are currently grappling with the complex and intertwined challenges of making college affordable, integrating AI responsibly, and ensuring robust diversity and inclusion across their institutions. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source Inside Higher Ed Summary This article examines the concerns expressed by student-success leaders…
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How AI Is Challenging the Credibility of Some Online Courses
Questioning the digital degree: AI-generated work is forcing educators to reassess the integrity and perceived value of completion certificates for online courses. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The Conversation Summary Mohammed Estaiteyeh argues that generative AI has exposed fundamental weaknesses in asynchronous online learning, where instructors cannot observe students’ thinking or verify…
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How the French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard Predicted Today’s AI 30 Years Before ChatGPT
Philosophy meets the future: Examining the enduring relevance of Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of the hyperreal and simulacra, and how they eerily foreshadow the rise and impact of modern generative AI. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The Conversation Summary Bran Nicol argues that Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory anticipated the logic and impact of…
Students using ChatGPT beware: Real learning takes legwork, study finds
The learning divide: A visual comparison highlights the potential pitfalls of relying on AI for “easy answers” versus the proven benefits of diligent study and engagement, as a new study suggests. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The Register Summary A new study published in PNAS Nexus finds that people who rely on…
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Academic Libraries Embrace AI
The future of learning: Academic libraries are evolving into hubs where traditional knowledge meets cutting-edge AI, enhancing research and access to information. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source Inside Higher Ed Summary A global Clarivate survey of more than 2,000 librarians across 109 countries shows that artificial intelligence adoption in libraries is accelerating,…
Where Does Human Thinking End and AI Begin? An AI Authorship Protocol Aims to Show the Difference
Decoding authorship: A visual representation of the intricate boundary between human creativity and AI generation, highlighting the need for protocols to delineate their contributions. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The Conversation Summary Eli Alshanetsky, a philosophy professor at Temple University, warns that as AI-generated writing grows increasingly polished, the link between human…
This Professor Let Half His Class Use AI. Here’s What Happened
An academic experiment unfolds: Visualizing the stark differences in engagement and performance between students who used AI and those who did not, as observed by one professor. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source Gizmodo Summary A study by University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Christian Rojas compared two sections of the same advanced economics…
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AI: Are we empowering students – or outsourcing the skills we aim to cultivate?
The rise of AI in education presents a crucial dichotomy: are we using it to truly empower students and cultivate essential skills, or are we inadvertently outsourcing those very abilities to algorithms? This image visually explores the two potential paths for AI’s integration into learning, urging a thoughtful approach to its implementation. Image (and typos)…
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Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
The irony of a digital dilemma: Students caught using AI to cheat are now turning to the same technology to craft their apologies. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The New York Times Summary At the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, over 100 students in an introductory data science course were caught using artificial…
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Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
The weight of intellectual stagnation: How reliance on AI can hinder genuine learning and critical thinking in students. Image (and typos) generated by Nano Banana. Source The New York Times Summary Anastasia Berg, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Irvine, contends that even minimal reliance on AI tools threatens students’ cognitive development and…
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