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| As we travel the current phase of this new AI journey with our students, we are facing an old and ongoing problem: How do we preserve our classrooms and liberal arts education as spaces for deep thinking at the same time that we are helping our students to prepare for their post-college professional lives?
Working toward an answer (or answers) requires considering a wide variety of perspectives and possibilities. Geoff Watkinson argues for the importance of teaching students to think first, before they turn to AI: “AI should free us from the humdrum of miserable tasks after we have learned them. But for students learning to think on the page, it can become a crutch — a way to avoid the hard work that leads to growth. Real freedom, in this context, feels like flow: being absorbed in your own thoughts, unbothered by notifications or noise. That’s the kind of freedom I want my students to find.” |