Learning to code and learning to use primary and secondary sources to learn a subject in detail are two different things. This article basically disregards the importance of using primary sources and promotes the use of AI as an arbiter of secondary sources. This is...not good!
Thank you, I think the use of AI will vary by field. You can use AI to prove the evidence in a text. But this is not history, where students go into the archives or like archaeologists focus on primary sources. So different boats for different folks.
As a student, I just wanted to say that this sounds great. Hoping to hear your takes on how it went in a few months!
Thank you so much! Yes, I’m excited too!! (But I also say that about my baking…)
You might be interested in this post by another professor: Matt Beane describes how interactions with either ChatGPT or Bing taught his students how to code in Python for data analysis. https://www.wildworldofwork.org/p/to-get-ai-you-have-to-try-the-impossible?
Learning to code and learning to use primary and secondary sources to learn a subject in detail are two different things. This article basically disregards the importance of using primary sources and promotes the use of AI as an arbiter of secondary sources. This is...not good!
Thank you, I think the use of AI will vary by field. You can use AI to prove the evidence in a text. But this is not history, where students go into the archives or like archaeologists focus on primary sources. So different boats for different folks.