Every time that I start thinking, “No, AI will never be able to do that,” I bring to mind the following example of a recent conversation I had with a computer. Three months ago, I would’ve thought this kind of thing impossible. So there I was, bored in an airport by myself, having just finished […]
Archives for April 2023
I Was Wrong About ChatGPT and AI (Part 2 of 3): What I’m Not Saying and Why I’m Interested
April 26 27 28 29 30, 2023 Dear colleague, I appreciate all the concerned letters I got from folks after my recent blog post regarding ChatGPT and AI. For those of you worried that your colleague Dave has gone off and drank the Tech Bro Kool-Aid all of a sudden, let me do two things […]
The Thing with Cheating
The thing with cheating in school is that it trades a short-term “positive” (completion of an assignment; better grade) for a long-term negative (lost learning opportunity; inaccurate feedback on learning; degradation of character). In my classroom practice, the surest way to decrease student cheating is to give my students regular opportunities to think on these […]
I Was Wrong About ChatGPT and AI (Part 1 of 3)
April 24, 2023 Dear colleague, Just three months ago, I wrote an article about how ChatGPT “ain’t no thing but a chicken wing.” My main three points were this: In the three months since then, I’ve done the following: So this week, I’m going to send you three articles discussing three things: And, just so […]
You Can’t Coerce Care
A person who does a thing — who even does it well — is not necessarily a person who cares about what they’ve done. Instead, it’s quite possible to get a person to do a thing, and even to do it well, using just carrots or sticks. This, I would argue, is the condition of […]