Education Expert Warns AI Threatens Critical Thinking

While artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how teachers and students operate in the classroom, it must be used in a way that still preserves critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Speaking on the Jamaica Information Services Get the Facts program, President and CEO of One-on-One Educational Services, Ricardo Allen, outlines how AI is being integrated into teaching and learning and why assessment practices may need to change.

 

“Instead of giving a child and I said to go home and write and come back, one way to do it, for example, is to give a child, you know, a task to go home and argue with AI on a position. The position could be World War II was economically necessary, right? And your job is to back the AI in a corner and come back with the evidence.”

 

Allen said, “What you have done is to create friction and cause the student to now think and argue with a AI to prove their point is correct. And so that it produces exactly what education is for is to cause information to stick for the long term.”