As graduation nears, both students and educational institutions reflect on the role of education in the era of generative AI. The emergence of tools like ChatGPT has sparked a trend where students increasingly outsource critical thinking tasks, prompting concerns over the value of traditional education. As educators struggle to adapt, they emphasize the importance of process over product, challenging the transactional approach fostered by high-stakes testing. There's a push for a hybrid educational model that incorporates both AI and foundational skills, reminding students that learning is not merely about completing assignments but about strengthening intellectual capabilities.
Honorary speakers ask it of half-awake, partied-out, graduating seniors. But colleges and schools, too, are gazing in the mirror: What's the pointthe medium, more preciselyof education nowadays amidst tech upheaval?
What's clear to me is that generative AI has begotten Generation AI. Since debuting as the fastest-growing platform in internet history, ChatGPT has become a metonym for all that AI ails.
Education surely has to work both with and against artificial intelligence, even as questions vex either way. The latter calls for analog retreat: blue books, oral exams, and the like.
Some of our students falsely assume that producta final paperis what we seek, because high-stakes testing has trained them transactionally, and that's what grading tallies.
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