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On changing their mind
If you had asked me this question in the lead up to my 2019 book, Ultralearning, I would have said no. I was a strong advocate for doing hard problem solving and the associated mental effort it requires as a way to learn difficult skills.
From one piece We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.Their words
But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
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From one piece Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Gamified learning is medicine wrapped in candy, and in practice children eat the candy and throw the medicine away.Their words
Gamified learning is a bit like wrapping medicine in candy. Yes, it may help some students swallow some instruction they otherwise find bitter, but in practice it’s easy to pull off the candy, consume it, and throw the medicine away.
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General problem solving abilities are neither learned nor taught. While some problem-solving methods have broader applicability than others (such as the scientific process of hypothesis testing), students learn these methods better when they’re explicitly taught rather than simply giving students projects and hoping they’ll reinvent them on their own.
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The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill.
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To the extent that school becomes more like free play, project-building or acting like a scientist, it will probably be worse.
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Whenever two teaching methods are rigorously compared, strong direct instruction plus practice wins.Their words
In short, whenever we have high-quality evidence that rigorously compares two teaching methods, the research invariably favors strong, direct instruction plus practice
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