Love this…

Struggle, friction and mental effortare crucial to the cognitive work of learning, remembering and strengthening connections in the brain…. You don’t get mastery and you can’t chunk information efficiently for higher-level processing without first putting in the cognitive effort and strain.

That’s a great quote. I also liked this one:

the temptation of using default-mode AI to avoid hard work will continue to be a more fundamental and classic problem of teaching, course design and motivating students to avoid shortcuts that undermine their cognitive workout.

Be sure to read Brian Stone’s whole piece, How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard

Literacy vs AI Literacy

This piece below from a different article complements Stone’s points:

The evidence reveals that the more users rely on AI to perform work for them, the less they see themselves as drawing upon their own thinking capacities…if we lose practice in reading and analyzing and formulating our own interpretations, those skills are at risk of weakening.

Read Naomi S. Baron’s piece, AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose