I love this Amanda! Especially how you wove in the cognitive debt study and its blind spots and limitations. I've found myself a bit annoyed at how quickly people held it up with this sort of almost moral superiority... and now because of you I know that only 53 people were in the study from elite universities without representative sampling... that means its findings are interesting at best.
I found your work through the SheWritesAI directory, and on Karen Smiley's recommendation. Every week I put out a curation + synthesis podcast that is themed, and this week coming up I'm doing a theme on AI and neurodivergence and 'futures worth living in'. I'd like to include this piece! You were tagged in a chat thread with Karen and I about it, and, with your permission I'd love to have your perspective included. You'll be tagged and recognized with the article linked as well. If you want an example of what it will look like you can check out last week's episode:
I also wrote a somewhat similar piece that makes me feel like we are sharing a brain lol really similar experiences and use cases. Very exciting to find your work and see the commonalities :)
I really appreciate your take. I have started to comment numerous times on this study because I see lots of educators sharing it. We have seen it used mostly as a way to cheat on assignments rather than do any thinking, and so we are tempted to view AI as our enemy. But I really feel like we need to embrace it as a tool and teach students how to use it, just like we did with calculators in upper level math classes. And I love how you highlighted the potential for neurodiverse learners. Thank you for sharing!
Hey, I’m so glad! It’s such a completely fascinating topic. I really do think that used correctly, it can be an extremely helpful tool. But I think it requires caution, especially when the tech is so… ethically murky.
I love this Amanda! Especially how you wove in the cognitive debt study and its blind spots and limitations. I've found myself a bit annoyed at how quickly people held it up with this sort of almost moral superiority... and now because of you I know that only 53 people were in the study from elite universities without representative sampling... that means its findings are interesting at best.
I found your work through the SheWritesAI directory, and on Karen Smiley's recommendation. Every week I put out a curation + synthesis podcast that is themed, and this week coming up I'm doing a theme on AI and neurodivergence and 'futures worth living in'. I'd like to include this piece! You were tagged in a chat thread with Karen and I about it, and, with your permission I'd love to have your perspective included. You'll be tagged and recognized with the article linked as well. If you want an example of what it will look like you can check out last week's episode:
https://jenniferangelamcrae.substack.com/i/166749624/o-featured-substackers
I also wrote a somewhat similar piece that makes me feel like we are sharing a brain lol really similar experiences and use cases. Very exciting to find your work and see the commonalities :)
https://jenniferangelamcrae.substack.com/p/ai-as-cognitive-prosthetic-for-the
Hi, thanks! I’d love for you to include the piece, sounds super interesting.
awesome! you’ll be tagged when it comes out but should be this Friday morning.
I really appreciate your take. I have started to comment numerous times on this study because I see lots of educators sharing it. We have seen it used mostly as a way to cheat on assignments rather than do any thinking, and so we are tempted to view AI as our enemy. But I really feel like we need to embrace it as a tool and teach students how to use it, just like we did with calculators in upper level math classes. And I love how you highlighted the potential for neurodiverse learners. Thank you for sharing!
Hey, I’m so glad! It’s such a completely fascinating topic. I really do think that used correctly, it can be an extremely helpful tool. But I think it requires caution, especially when the tech is so… ethically murky.