I thought this was a pretty interesting & thoughtful conversation. It’s interesting to think about ways to evaluate & reward process (hard work through challenges) and not just product (final projects, tests, etc.). AI obviously enables a lot of skipping the former in pursuit of the latter—but (shocker!) people then don’t build knowhow around solving problems, or even remember (much less feel pride in) the artifacts they produce.

The issues go a lot deeper, to the very philosophy of education itself. So we sat down and talked to a lot of teachers — you’ll hear many of their voices throughout this episode — and we kept hearing one cri du coeur again and again: What are we even doing here? What’s the point?

Links, courtesy of the Verge team:

• A majority of high school students use gen AI for schoolwork | College Board
• About a quarter of teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork | Pew Research
• Your brain on ChatGPT | MIT Media Lab
• My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re on to something. | Vox
• How children understand and learn from conversational AI | McGill University
• File not Found | The Verge