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anciano

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14. I believe AI can enhance critical thinking

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #9)

Thu May 15, 2025, 01:16 PM

May 15

in several ways. It is a very time efficient way to assemble relevant data for verification and input into the decision making process, and it can assist in speculative and hypothetical analyses by helping one see different sides of an issue and posit likely outcomes based on what decisions you may eventually choose to make.
Bottom line: IMO, I believe AI is a useful interactive tool that can enhance critical thinking when used judiciously.

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No fair. We only had Cliffs Notes. surfered May 15 #1

Was note-taking an almost lost art even then? nitpicked May 15 #3

They were used by non-English majors forced to read extremely bleak and boring books surfered May 15 #5

"It was a dark and stormy night ..." ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 15 #7

Much of the cohort that is graduating college right now spent their senior year in high school managing "lockdowns," WhiskeyGrinder May 15 #2

Cheating is the wrong word IMO newdeal2 May 15 #4

Not just college gab13by13 May 15 #6

AI is an amazing technological innovation anciano May 15 #8

Please share how you believe it will enhance critical thinking. Ms. Toad May 15 #9

I believe AI can enhance critical thinking anciano May 15 #14

First - I asked about "will" (your assertion) not "can." I indicated there are ways in which I can see it being Ms. Toad May 15 #15

There have already been studies showing it damages critical thinking. It isn't very "time efficient" if the highplainsdem May 15 #13

Earlier thread with 64 recs and 77 replies: highplainsdem May 15 #10

The fact is RJ-MacReady May 15 #11

Mitigate with in-class, closed book testing Ponietz May 15 #12