Skepticism and Curiosity in the Age of AI with Marc Watkins
About this episode
Marc Watkins discusses the importance of skepticism and curiosity in the context of AI's impact on education.
Marc Watkins shares about cultivating skepticism and curiosity in an age of AI on Episode 613 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I do think online education is going to be the focal point for this next year, and how it can survive with an agentic AI. My feeling is, we need to be offering students more embodied experiences and disembodied spaces. -Marc Watkins Every technology has its affordances and the things that are negative about it too; your cell phone, the computer, the fact we’re talking about this right now on the systems that we are using, cloud computing, that all has a cost. -Marc Watkins For an incoming freshman student in college to take 4 or 5 classes and have 4 or 5 very different AI policies, 4 or 5 very different understandings of what AI is, it is incredibly confusing. -Marc Watkins Resources Sesame Street: One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others) What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not, by Marc Watkins Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill, by Marc Watkins Civics of Technology’s Privacy Week Resources The Opposite of Cheating The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of…
People in this episode
Host: Bonni Stachowiak
Guest: Marc Watkins
Topics covered
- AI in education
- skepticism
- curiosity
- online education
- student experiences
- technology affordances
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Civics of Technology, Sesame Street
Books & works: What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not, Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill, The Opposite of Cheating, The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing
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