AI in education
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Sunday's Doonesbury addresses possible restrictions on the use of AI in higher education. Here are the middle four panels:
And the last two panels:
And FWIW, the first two panels:
In the course I'm teaching this semester, I've told students that they're welcome to use AI, but their submissions may be subject an oral exam if I'm not convinced that they understand what they've turned in. (Which might be because of AI-ish hallucinations, or a level of discourse that seems beyond the reach of their other work in the class.)
David Marjanović said,
November 25, 2025 @ 12:08 pm
The third panel seems bizarre. Typing precludes processing of the material? To an extent that handwriting doesn't?
Jerry Packard said,
November 25, 2025 @ 12:25 pm
@David
Right!
Gregory Kusnick said,
November 25, 2025 @ 1:21 pm
Here's a link to a meta-analysis claiming that taking notes by hand leads to better comprehension and higher grades. It's paywalled so I have not read beyond the abstract, but various commentators are touting it as proof that paper=good and screens=bad.
Mark Liberman said,
November 25, 2025 @ 2:57 pm
@Gregory Kusnick:
As expected, the effect is statistically significant but maybe not as practically significant as the media coverage suggests:
