Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine

Article note: This neatly hits two important points that a lot of AI discourse has trouble with, quoting: 1. "there’s a big difference between getting something explained to you, and actual learning. You might feel like you are learning when querying a chatbot, but those intellectual gains are often illusory." 2. "AI severs the connection between an output, like an essay, and the real learning, thinking, and practice creating that output usually requires. There’s now no way to be sure that a student who turns in a good essay actually has a grasp on the material that assignment was supposed to push them toward understanding. Thus, AI lets students skip the “desirable difficulties” that produce real learning. The temptation to skip these difficulties is powerful enough that even very engaged students, students who understand the value of “desirable difficulty,” will use AI for the sake of their GPA, their time, and their stress levels."