Associate Professor, CUC. Researcher on AI in Higher Education & Scholarly Communication. Heavy AI user.
Every opinion I share is a vote for the world I want.
Today was our literature exam: students read assigned papers in advance, then defend them in front of faculty.
About 80% had memorized the papers. Only a few were truly thinking critically.
Two of them argued that one paper's ideas were outdated and it shouldn't be on the reading list anymore.
I love students like this. The point of reading literature isn't to remember it, it's to have the nerve to question it.
I gave my students a video-editing assignment.
The ones with editing experience started planning shoots and After Effects work.
The one with zero experience generated images with GPT, animated them in Kling, and cut it all with Codex. Done first.
Prior expertise can quietly cap how far you push AI. I keep reminding myself to unlearn.