Today I had a question about how human cognition connects with AI that was sparked by a Threads App user this past weekend (cannot find the thread) and it was still in my head today, so I began reading scholarly articles which are pretty limited. Then I moved to X (formerly Twitter) to search keywords and see who is currently talking about my topic of interest. Then I paused and went to Bing AI and asked this question to get the ball rolling:
How can we connect memory, language, perception, logical thinking, creativity cognition and cognitive psychology with learning using AI?
Bing responded but the sources of information were not what I was seeking. Instead of giving up, I read through the response and generated another question and several more in rapid succession. Then I decided to ask basically the same questions in ChatGPT because the chat can be shared. Here is my entire 🔗 chat with ChatGPT from this morning that I recreated from the chat I had with Bing. Much of what was shared in both AI tools contained thinking that I have been sharing for months now but some of it gave me some food for thought. My goal was to just get a little bit of information and go from there to other information sources. I stayed and asked additional questions and made it a brief give and take chat with the bots. I tried to press them on a specific issue related to bias in AI outputs and it responded with some ideas that are worth reading in the above link.
The point of this post is to share a use case that I think is interesting. I have been using it to give me answers with keywords I can chase down in scholarly articles, current thinking found in different spaces online, such as social media... Using AI to extend our thinking can be beneficial as long as we don't develop an over-reliance on it. Now that I've done a little exploring in AI on some of the things that have been swirling around my mind, I've bounced around from X (formerly Twitter) to gather more ideas and keywords to search, and now I'm into Google Scholar and library databases poking around to see what I can find.
Using AI to build curiosity about a topic of interest before diving deeper into it is a strategy we could use with students. If students are curious about a topic, we could model how to use AI to build some vocabulary related to the topic and use the keywords and phrases in a search outside of the tool to find credible sources that offer well-sourced information about it. Modeling these types of interactions with AI could offer students insights into ways they could use it to do a preliminary search on a topic, verify information using other credible sources, and develop a search strategy with keywords from the preliminary search to dive deeper. At the same time we need to make sure students are curious enough about the output from AI to analyze the accuracy of claims, facts, and evidence...
These are morning thoughts and I wanted to share them before I went off in another direction on the project I am working on. What are your thoughts? Please contact the CCIT Team if you would like to talk about this with us and ways we can help personalize the AI in your courses to help meet student needs.
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