生成式AI正深刻影响教育领域，引发广泛担忧。除了学生利用ChatGPT作弊的直接问题，更深层次的挑战触及教育的哲学本质。教师们普遍面临“我们究竟在做什么”的困惑，担忧AI可能导致课程、评分乃至学生作业全部由AI生成，从而模糊高等教育的意义。尽管少数教师发现AI有助于工作流程，但多数人正经历深刻的生存性思考。本文探讨了生成式AI在教育中的现状及其未来走向，并引用了相关研究数据和专家观点，旨在深入理解这一技术对教育体系带来的复杂影响。

🤖 **AI在教育中的普遍挑战**: 生成式AI，特别是ChatGPT，不仅导致学生作弊问题，更引发了关于教育本质的深刻哲学思考。许多教师对AI可能全面接管课程创建、评估及学生作业生成表示担忧，质疑高等教育的根本目的。

🤔 **教师的生存性困惑**: 尽管少数教师认为AI能优化工作流程，但绝大多数教师在面对AI时，普遍感到迷茫，并开始反思教育的意义和自身角色。这种普遍的“我们究竟在做什么”的困惑，反映了AI对教育体系带来的颠覆性冲击。

📊 **数据与研究的视角**: 相关研究，如College Board和Pew Research的数据显示，大量高中生已开始使用生成式AI完成学业任务。MIT Media Lab和McGill University的研究则进一步探讨了AI对学习过程及儿童认知的影响，为理解这一现象提供了科学依据。

💡 **教育科技的未来展望**: 面对AI带来的变革，教育专家和研究者正在探索AI在教育中的适应与发展方向。文章引用了相关链接，暗示了对AI在教育中潜在解决方案和未来趋势的进一步探讨。

Here on Decoder, we’ve talked a lot about generative AI, which is a very big idea that is causing quite a few problems. One thing we keep hearing about over and over again is that generative AI is causing a lot of problems in schools.

A lot of people out there — including many of the listeners of this show who email us — are worried about the obvious problem: students using ChatGPT to cheat on assignments — and yes, some students definitely do.

But when our team went and poked at the story, we found that the issues with AI in education go a lot deeper, to the very philosophy of education itself.

The Decoder team sat down and talked to a lot of teachers — you’ll be hearing many of their voices throughout this episode — and we kept hearing one common theme echoed from many of them: what are we even doing here?

As one instructional designer you’ll hear says, “If this technology becomes more ubiquitous, we’ll have courses created by AI, graded by AI, with submissions from students absolutely generated by AI. So it begs the question: What are we even doing here in higher ed?”

Every teacher is having a different experience with AI in the classroom, and with their students, but the common thread is that a lot of those experiences feel bad. A few teachers who talked to us find tools like ChatGPT are helping their workflow, but a definite majority are facing those deep existential questions.

Luckily, there are people whose job it is to be experts in education and educational technology, to research what’s going on in a more detailed way. So I sat down with Dr. Adam Dubé, from McGill University, to talk about how generative AI is fitting into education right now, and where all of this might be going in the future.

If you’d like to read more about what we discussed in this episode, check out these links:

A majority of high school students use gen AI for schoolwork | College BoardAbout a quarter of teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork | Pew ResearchYour brain on ChatGPT | MIT Media LabMy students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re on to something. | VoxHow children understand and learn from conversational AI | McGill University‘File not Found’ | The Verge

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