Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’

Students at the University of Central Florida booed a commencement speaker after she said, “artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.”

Old "honor code" systems are under strain.

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader alike: Read the story at least twice. Mark what works and what doesn’t – underline great sentences, flag clunky syntax, gaps in logic and unrealistic dialogue. Ask yourself: does the story work? Why or why not? What could improve it? Answer in a signed letter to the author, attached to their story. Give your honest opinions. Remember that an effective peer review demands close reading of the text accompanied by a boldness of spirit. Continue reading...

The awards come as the first class to have ChatGPT access for all four years of college is about to graduate.

For teachers, advocating for your classroom and students isn’t just about the big, visible moments, but the quiet ones: the follow-up email, the extra conversation, the willingness to try again after hearing “no.”

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High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.

"As knowledge becomes democratized, the ability to think critically is going to become more and more important"