Should educators emphasize rote memorization as an antidote to the rush of AI tools?
A small but growing number of education experts are making that case, calling for students (and all of us) to memorize poems, dates, capitals, etc to keep our own brains "trained" to make sense of the world even when we can always just "ChatGPT it."
The latest episode of the Learning Curve podcast dives into this case for memorization.
One of the guests is a memory athlete who is a 6-time U.S. Memory Championship winner (and also happens to teach computer science at a college) -- Nelson Dellis
Another is a professor with a new scholarly paper: "The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI." -- Barbara Oakley
Both of these experts say they use AI -- but they stress that how these tools are adopted matters, especially in educational settings. After all, so many AI products come with a promise to cut out the boring parts of learning (which is where the learning happens).
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 13.6 ms ] threadA small but growing number of education experts are making that case, calling for students (and all of us) to memorize poems, dates, capitals, etc to keep our own brains "trained" to make sense of the world even when we can always just "ChatGPT it."
The latest episode of the Learning Curve podcast dives into this case for memorization.
One of the guests is a memory athlete who is a 6-time U.S. Memory Championship winner (and also happens to teach computer science at a college) -- Nelson Dellis
Another is a professor with a new scholarly paper: "The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI." -- Barbara Oakley
Both of these experts say they use AI -- but they stress that how these tools are adopted matters, especially in educational settings. After all, so many AI products come with a promise to cut out the boring parts of learning (which is where the learning happens).