Amy J. Ko
Jan 20, 2024

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I'll share a story. Last quarter I taught 200 first year undergraduates about data, information, and technology. I talked to many students about their use of ChatGPT. Most I talked to admitted having it do their writing for them and that many hadn't written for a year. Few thought about how they prompted it, few checked or edited what it generated, many admitted not even understanding what it wrote. Many said that they knew that was bad, but they needed to pass classes, graduate, get jobs, etc., and if having something else do the thinking for them would get them those jobs, they weren't really interested in the hard work of learning. I'm not confident at all, given the incentives in the world, that all students will take seriously the responsibility of using the tools intentionally, thoughtfully, and responsibly.

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Amy J. Ko
Amy J. Ko

Written by Amy J. Ko

Professor, University of Washington iSchool (she/her). Code, learning, design, justice. Trans, queer, parent, and lover of learning.

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