123. Urgency of Learning How to Learn in the Age of AI (Trini Balart)

About this episode

Trini Balart discusses the urgent need to integrate learning how to learn into education, especially in the context of AI.

There are significant challenges in education that have been ignored for too long, and AI is forcing us to confront them urgently; otherwise, AI will think for us, rather than with us. The need to learn how to learn has been increasingly important, but it has rarely been fully integrated into the education system. My guest in this episode is a doctoral student researching how to teach critical thinking with the aid of AI. She is sounding the alarm on the importance of teaching this skill with AI, otherwise, she thinks that AI will not only think for us, but it will not allow us to think at all. Trini Balart is a Ph.D. candidate in the Multidisciplinary Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, originally from Chile. She holds a background in Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, and a major in Engineering, Design, and Innovation from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Her research focuses on engineering education and the impact of generative artificial intelligence on how we teach, learn, and think. She is especially interested in how these tools are shaping the development of critical thinking in engineering students and prompting us to rethink the true…

People in this episode

Host: Dr Kinga Petrovai

Guest: Trini Balart

Topics covered

• education
• artificial intelligence
• critical thinking
• learning
• engineering education

Keywords

• learning how to learn
• artificial intelligence
• critical thinking
• education challenges
• engineering education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas A&M University, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Places: Chile

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