True. I think those faculty who can are turning to in-class writing and oral presentations for demonstration purposes. Still, I have to accept that AI devalues these abilities within a neoliberal economic environment.
I don't think most students have the slightest interest in learning about 'how scholarly communities discover, validate, and create new knowledge.' They'll only be part of a scholarly community temporarily if at all, and walking up to an employer with this as your sales pitch about what you learned in school is unfortunately laughable.
This is a laudable goal that I personally agree with. I fully see its value. I also think it's a reasonably AI-proof skill. But restructuring the university around this principle would be deliberately courting a smaller and smaller audience of potential students. I think we need to recognize that 'scholarly community' actually codes negatively in the public mind. There's a culture war and academe is losing.
But the figurative student in this essay has not, herself, demonstrated anything: the AI has.
Yes but the current system makes turning in an essay acceptable as a demonstration
True. I think those faculty who can are turning to in-class writing and oral presentations for demonstration purposes. Still, I have to accept that AI devalues these abilities within a neoliberal economic environment.
I don't think most students have the slightest interest in learning about 'how scholarly communities discover, validate, and create new knowledge.' They'll only be part of a scholarly community temporarily if at all, and walking up to an employer with this as your sales pitch about what you learned in school is unfortunately laughable.
This is a laudable goal that I personally agree with. I fully see its value. I also think it's a reasonably AI-proof skill. But restructuring the university around this principle would be deliberately courting a smaller and smaller audience of potential students. I think we need to recognize that 'scholarly community' actually codes negatively in the public mind. There's a culture war and academe is losing.
I have learned that just as I wrote this the SUNY system announced it is updating its general education curriculum to include AI and civil discourse. Excellent. https://www.suny.edu/suny-news/press-releases/1-25/1-7-25/general-education.html