"Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world. It's an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them from turning to artificial intelligence to do the work for them."
"As artificial intelligence has upended the way in which students read, learn and write, professors like Pao have been left to their own devices to figure out how to teach in a transformed landscape. Many faculty members in the hard sciences and social sciences have pointed to the productivity boost AI can offer, and the research potential unlocked by its ability to process and analyze vast amounts of data."
"But in fields most explicitly associated with the production of critical thought—what is collectively referred to as the humanities—most scholars see AI as a unique threat, one that extends far beyond cheating on homework and casts doubt on the future of higher education itself in a fast-approaching, machine-dominated future."
Lea Pao, a Stanford literature professor, implements offline learning methods including poetry memorization, recitation events, and museum visits to reconnect students with embodied learning experiences and discourage AI reliance. While some students still resort to AI when assignments prove challenging, Pao believes classroom experiences can demonstrate alternatives to algorithmic solutions. Across academia, responses to AI differ significantly by discipline. Hard sciences and social sciences recognize AI's productivity benefits for research and data analysis. However, humanities scholars view AI as a fundamental threat to critical thinking and the future of higher education itself, extending concerns beyond academic dishonesty to questions about the discipline's viability in an increasingly machine-dependent world.
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