Eric, this is brilliant. Your insights are running parallel to a research study I am about to launch via my next semester course Artificial Intelligence Theory and Composition. Students need strategies to learn. AI can be incorporate to manifest learning---make it visible---as you say--thus reinforcing links between the cognitive processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating. At least that is what we are seeing anecdotally right now.
Love this piece! I'm running a small, experimental class called Prompt and Circumstance in spring focused solely on writing prompts to achieve whatever goals the students want. This article plus one by E. Mollick will set the tone beautifully. You've also got me thinking about distributed cognition (or extended cognition -- I'm still working on understanding the difference). I intend to approach P&C from the co-intelligence perspective. Adding extension, perhaps emphasizing it, makes for a more powerful frame that avoids some of the anthropomorphic rhetoric around AI. Thank you!
Eric, this is brilliant. Your insights are running parallel to a research study I am about to launch via my next semester course Artificial Intelligence Theory and Composition. Students need strategies to learn. AI can be incorporate to manifest learning---make it visible---as you say--thus reinforcing links between the cognitive processes of selecting, organizing, and integrating. At least that is what we are seeing anecdotally right now.
Thanks so much, Nick. That project sounds interesting, and I’m always thrilled to see educators engaging students as thought partners in this work.
I agree - and it is very much in line with the PhD thesis I am currently writing. This is the way forward, for sure.
Love this piece! I'm running a small, experimental class called Prompt and Circumstance in spring focused solely on writing prompts to achieve whatever goals the students want. This article plus one by E. Mollick will set the tone beautifully. You've also got me thinking about distributed cognition (or extended cognition -- I'm still working on understanding the difference). I intend to approach P&C from the co-intelligence perspective. Adding extension, perhaps emphasizing it, makes for a more powerful frame that avoids some of the anthropomorphic rhetoric around AI. Thank you!