—Mat Honan, editor in chief
Welcome to the Education Issue, our newest print journal. It’s changing into more and more clear that we’re in a wholly new place on the subject of using AI in schooling, and it’s removed from clear what that’s going to imply. The world has modified, and there’s no going again.
Technologies like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s massively mind-blowing generative AI software program, could have all types of genuinely helpful and transformative functions within the classroom. Yes, they may virtually actually even be used for dishonest. But banishing these sorts of applied sciences from the classroom, relatively than attempting to harness them, is shortsighted.
These had been simply a few of the issues on our minds once we began placing collectively the newest print challenge of MIT Technology Review: seeking to the way forward for schooling and the function know-how will play in shaping it.
Here’s only a choice of the nice tales you possibly can look ahead to studying:
+ Why the narrative round college students utilizing ChatGPT to cheat on their assignments doesn’t inform the entire story.
+ What it’s like to put in writing a historical past of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones.
+ How AI is getting used to assist additional our evaluation and understanding of centuries-old texts, reworking humanities analysis within the course of.
+ Why merely studying to code isn’t sufficient to thrive within the digital financial system.
+ A highschool senior’s perspective on why banning ChatGPT from the classroom would do extra hurt than good.
+ Inside the challenges of educating youngsters who flip between books and screens.
+ Why academics in Denmark are utilizing apps to audit their college students’ moods.