Trapped in Someone Else’s Imagination: Students on AI, Choice, and the Futures We Deserve
Higher EducationEducationPhilosophy
THE AI ANGLE
Eliminating productive educational friction and fostering mutual mistrust between students and facultyParticipatory action research conducted by John Jay College students and faculty reveals that learners feel trapped between academic surveillance and the pressure to adopt AI, finding it difficult to imagine liberatory futures outside corporate tech agendas. Although AI serves as an essential accessibility bridge for some neurodivergent and under-resourced students, pervasive machine mediation risks turning education into a transactional, soulless exchange. For higher education faculty, this underscores the urgency of cultivating spaces that preserve student agency and human connection rather than treating AI integration as an uncritical mandate.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Instructors can explore the pedagogical tension between AI functioning as a liberatory accessibility tool for neurodivergent students and its tendency to eliminate the productive 'friction' essential to authentic learning and critical thought.Read the original at s39613.pcdn.co Generate teaching or study materials
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