FINAL WORD educational institutions are reacting by taking a stepback from digital technology entirely and returning to pen-and-paper exam formats .
These efforts are an attempt to counter cheating , plagiarism and the intellectual debilitation of students . But such knee-jerk reactions are perhaps too little , too late and seem to miss the whole point of next-gen AI learning entirely .
Efforts to ignore or ban generative AI are retrospective steps . They reflect fears amongst academics that universities , that they will be replaced by machines and become obsolete in the not-sodistant future . But to what extent have lecturers and traditional university systems been wittingly or unwittingly enfeebling students ?
Summative assessments , like written exams , can require students to rote-learn prescribed sets of knowledge , ethnocentric constructs , outdated facts and normative ways of doing things , which often bear little relation to real-world scenarios . As the seminal pedagogical thinker Paulo Freire pertinently argued , teachers have been approaching education as if they were old-fashioned bank clerks , depositing information , pre-defined answers and reserves of knowledge , for far too long .
Conversely , Zayed University ’ s College of Interdisciplinary Studies , CIS is taking an entirely fresh approach to the challenges of the AI age .
Efforts to ignore or ban generative AI are retrospective steps and reflect fears amongst academics that universities will be replaced by machines and become obsolete in the not-so-distant future .
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