I find that one of the most frustrating kinds of AI hype is when people who are actually in a position to use their own expertise to push back instead give in to the FOMO and do the hype for tech companies. Today's case in point is a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education...
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"Students can all sniff out an inauthentic place of learning," the professor argues. "They think, If it's a game, fine, I'll play it for the grade, but I'm not going to learn anything."
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P. Cremers, and R. Valkenburg. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, 1, chapter 17, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, (2008)