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AI Has Come to Reshape Education
Foundation for Economic Education ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Lika Kobeshavidze

Posted on 09/04/2025 1:10:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Calculators changed math; now, AI is changing learning.

In the last few years, everything has changed for college students. Applications capable of writing assignments suddenly became a part of everyday life. What is the real impact of artificial intelligence (AI)? Is it a convenient tool for personalized learning or a path to academic dishonesty?

Out of nowhere, AI became students’ best friend. A tool created in 2022 is now a daily habit. Professors may see dishonesty, but students see efficiency. Is AI additional help or a shortcut to avoid learning? The real problem is a decline in educational standards. Will over-reliance on AI make students smarter, or does it come with darker consequences?

According to a new study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the latter might be true. Researchers found that writing essays with ChatGPT can lead to “cognitive debt” and a “gradual decline in the quality of written assessments.”

Over four months, MIT researchers asked 54 adults to write essays in three groups: those who used ChatGPT, those who used a search engine, and those who used only their own skills. The team tracked brain activity and analyzed the writing to see how engaged participants were. The results were interesting: those who relied on AI showed much less brain engagement and even struggled to remember their own quotes. When later asked to write without AI, they performed the worst of all.

The study was small, with only 18 participants making the final round, but it raises a big question: Does over-reliance on AI make it harder to think for ourselves?

Artificial intelligence is still a relatively new tool. But its rise has created major challenges for academic integrity. This skepticism is not new; people had similar concerns when...

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: ai; artificial; intelligence

1 posted on 09/04/2025 1:10:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bring back Blue Books.


2 posted on 09/04/2025 1:10:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d really like to see AI used to take charge of traffic control in the US as it is really poorly operated now.


3 posted on 09/04/2025 1:20:05 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While there might be some benefits, it is hard to get around the fact that many students are outsourcing their thinking and writing skills to these AI tools.

If an employer asked: “What value do you add?”, most would be hard pressed to answer it. Or might consult AI for an answer.


4 posted on 09/04/2025 1:23:53 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The AI revolution is very similar to the Internet start. Lots of high hopes , exaggerations and failed starts. Once we have machines that are capable of making copies of themselves the sky itself is no longer the limit.


5 posted on 09/04/2025 2:05:35 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The AI that I have seen has a high rate of blatant factual errors, hullucinations, when the facts are readily available. Eg where a city is located geographically.

So how can a person “learn facts” .. or logic based on facts, from AI in 2025. Will it improve in 2026? I see no pressure on google/chrome to improve the high rate of factual errors in its AI.


6 posted on 09/04/2025 3:10:50 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Calculators changed math

Calculators crippled the learning of math

7 posted on 09/04/2025 4:33:50 PM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: goo goo g'joob

I believe that is what they are implying.


8 posted on 09/04/2025 4:47:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

And just when you're wondering what they could do next to further ruin education, thinking it wasn't possible they prove you wrong.

9 posted on 09/04/2025 5:15:41 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: dfwgator

They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now (because of ChatGPT) Blue Books Are Back.

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 23, 2025 | Ben Cohen
Posted on 5/25/2025, 6:57:36 PM by DoodleBob

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4319076/posts


10 posted on 09/04/2025 5:37:45 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: goo goo g'joob
Amen! I tried being a Science teacher but all I actually got to (try to) teach was math.

Kids couldn't do math so dimensional analysis for Chemistry and Physics was impossible for them.

11 posted on 09/05/2025 4:52:51 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Government is a cancer upon the host - keep it small!)
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