“... technology changes not only the way we teach, but what we teach. With the internet, information is everywhere; memorizing facts is almost as archaic as teaching long division to people with calculators on their phones and watches. Professor Jon Claerbout at Stanford wrote in 1993: ‘… At the beginning of the computer revolution, I gave young students the advice: “Learn how to type.” With the mass-storage revolution now underway, and with a $10 CD-ROM able to hold all the keystrokes you can type in a lifetime, I now advise everyone: “Learn how to file.”’
“A decade later, his advice would surely have been: ‘Learn how to search.’ Today, I surmise that advice would have come full circle to the heart of higher education: ‘Learn how to validate, analyze and synthesize.’ It is these timeless skills, the very soul of a broad liberal education, which the world most desperately needs in order to find solutions to the pressing problems of our generation and future generations and which universities have always made their ideal. They are equally valuable in the microcosms of art or science, business or law, public discourse or private conversations.”
So ask ourselves: Do the exams actually evaluate whether the student has achieved that goal and does the use of AI improve their understanding?
Some years back I wrote:
“... technology changes not only the way we teach, but what we teach. With the internet, information is everywhere; memorizing facts is almost as archaic as teaching long division to people with calculators on their phones and watches. Professor Jon Claerbout at Stanford wrote in 1993: ‘… At the beginning of the computer revolution, I gave young students the advice: “Learn how to type.” With the mass-storage revolution now underway, and with a $10 CD-ROM able to hold all the keystrokes you can type in a lifetime, I now advise everyone: “Learn how to file.”’
“A decade later, his advice would surely have been: ‘Learn how to search.’ Today, I surmise that advice would have come full circle to the heart of higher education: ‘Learn how to validate, analyze and synthesize.’ It is these timeless skills, the very soul of a broad liberal education, which the world most desperately needs in order to find solutions to the pressing problems of our generation and future generations and which universities have always made their ideal. They are equally valuable in the microcosms of art or science, business or law, public discourse or private conversations.”
So ask ourselves: Do the exams actually evaluate whether the student has achieved that goal and does the use of AI improve their understanding?