Happy Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing.
In many ways, the introduction of AI only underscores what has always been a key problem in the American system of education, and that is the continued indecision around the purpose of education. Namely, is the role of education to shape, enrich, the minds and hearts of students or is the aim to give students the skills needed in securing and maintaining a job?
This piece is about one professor’s experience teaching with AI; the assignment he gave was designed to show the uses and limitations of these AI programs and actually had the effect of demonstrating why we write essays in the first place – to show our thinking.
“The Ten Rules of Being Human“, Number Five: Learning Does Not End. Hear, hear!
“To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.”
– from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents via The Marginalian
“You can find Vernon Smith hard at work at his computer by 7:30 each morning, cranking out 10 solid hours of writing and researching every day. … His job is incredibly demanding — he is currently on the faculty of both the business and law schools at Chapman University. But the hard work pays off: Smith’s research is consistently ranked as the most-cited work produced at the school — a testament to his ongoing academic influence and success. …It’s a remarkable level of productivity, made all the more remarkable by one simple fact: Vernon Smith is 96 years old.” A surprising look at the minds of ‘super agers’ and the lessons we may be able to glean.
The pirate preservationists cataloging and saving digital media from disappearing forever.
Currently reading: How to Think by Alan Jacobs
Image: A November Morning. Onderdonk, Julian. 1909.
