ZingerLearns

@tonic@qoto.org @edutooters@a.gup.pe LOL you are reminding me of my high school drafting class...most unpleasant memories.

@adamjcook@mastodon.social @edutooters@a.gup.pe That makes a lot of sense, and it requires at least a little analysis. I am seeing some IHEs, schools, and departments making knee jerk reactions with bans, policing policies etc... That don't seem as productive or thoughtful as your approach, which by the way I think applies more broadly to potentially facilitating rudimentary tasks, but being extremely limited in more complex tasks that we should be engaging students in. And rather than problematizing poor pedagogy we problematize a tool (though ChatGPT certainly has many other issues that are worthy of critique).

The reactions to ChatGPT in education, both at the K-12 and Higher Ed level really remind me of some prior technology wars going back to...
Calculator bans (students will forget or not learn how to add and subtract)
Graphic calculator bans (students will store formulas and forget critical math formulas)
Word processor/typed paper bans (students will forget how to write in cursive and how to spell and do grammar)
Laptop bans (students will just cheat and Google everything)
Wikipedia use ban (students will use unreliable and entirely too easy to access information)
I know ChatGPT is "different" from these, but it's also the same.
What other "tech innovations" fall under this history?

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