When it comes to AI use in the classroom, I feel like “too much” would entail that all the work one is doing is simply typing in a prompt and that’s that. It’s not that we shouldn’t use AI; it’s that it can be an aid to learning instead of doing all the work for someone. It’s situations like those that I think of when reading or hearing about cognitive decline due to constant use of AI. Dinsmore and Fryer write in their article, “By either ignoring the building blocks of learning or ignoring the needs of the learner, use of genAI has the potential to reverse years of educational improvement regarding the role of these basic building blocks in overall development.” (Page 4) If AI is going to be used in the classroom, it should be used to expand, refine, or explore a topic further in the benefit of the student’s original work. At least that way, education is still happening.
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I highly agree that AI should supplement learning, not replace learning. When students use AI to skip every basic process of learning, their own cognitive development can just be harmed, especially when they use it for every assignment.
I definitely agree that AI should be used, but as an aid to facilitating learning rather than acting as an expert for primary information.