Ban on Students' AI Use and the Bigger Problem Facing Us All
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THE AI ANGLE
Serving as an external support for cognitive tasks to surmount human processing limitsFollowing New York City's pause on student AI use, this article argues that educators should move past blanket bans and instead evaluate how to balance students' internal mental resources with external AI supports across critical, creative, strategic, and ethical thinking. Addressing widespread student learning deficiencies and a documented decline in disruptive innovation requires intentionally integrating AI to help learners bridge human cognitive limits and connect disparate domains.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Instructors can explore the pedagogical tension between banning AI to protect internal mental development versus allowing AI while demanding that students rigorously justify their choices across complex tasks.Read the original at psychologytoday.com Generate teaching or study materials
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