Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The very same people, who called me stupid for thinking typing will be a more important skill that “pretty writing” now think art education is obsolete, because you can just ask a machine for an image.
AI stands for “anti-intellectualism”.
It seems writing things by hand if better for memorization, and it certainly feels more personal and versatile in presentation.
I write lots of things by hand. Having physical papers is helpful, I find, to see lots of things at once, reorganise, etc. I also like being able to highlight, draw on things, structure documents non-linearly…
I’m a computer scientist, so I do value typing immensely too. But I find it too constraining for many reasoning tasks, especially for learning or creativity.
Handwriting’s still important. “Pretty” usually means legible, too, and the point of art education is not to be able to confidently produce pictures.
I suppose it would matter if i wrote anything down by hand in the last ten years
never left a note for someone in that time? a few quick thoughts before you forget? a list, some date, when a device is out of reach/battery/service?
Disillusionist@piefed.world 20 hours ago
One of Big Tech’s pitches about AI is the “great equalizer” idea. It reminds me of their pitch about social media being the “great democratizer”. Now we’ve got algorithms, disinformation, deepfakes, and people telling machines to think for them and potentially also their kids.