The challenge in higher education is finding a balance between maintaining academic integrity using tools like plagiarism detectors while also preparing students for the AI-driven world post-graduation. Faculty initially sought to rely solely on technology to address academic integrity issues, but this approach has proven insufficient. The dilemma arises from the need to ensure students achieve learning outcomes while equipping them with AI literacy for future career readiness. This conflict presents a new level of dissonance in higher education, emphasizing the importance of AI literacy as an essential learning outcome.
C. Edward Watson talks about thinking with and about AI on episode 517 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that’s rapidly evolving?
-Eddie Watson
You must use AI as a starting point in the real world.
-Eddie Watson
Even the best tool on the market says that it gets it wrong one out of 20 times. You know, there’s a false positive. It’ll accuse a student of cheating who did not cheat with AI. And that’s the best in show tool.
-Eddie Watson
There are so many ethical concerns within this space just around AI detection.
-Eddie Watson