The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future
Манифест преподавания и обучения в эпоху генеративного искусственного интеллекта: критическая коллективная позиция для более эффективной навигации в будущем
2024-01-01
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This manifesto critically examines the unfolding integration of Generative AI (GenAI), chatbots, and algorithms into higher education, using a collective and thoughtful approach to navigate the future of teaching and learning. GenAI, while celebrated for its potential to personalize learning, enhance efficiency, and expand educational accessibility, is far from a neutral tool. Algorithms now shape human interaction, communication, and content creation, raising profound questions about human agency and biases and values embedded in their designs. As GenAI continues to evolve, we face critical challenges in maintaining human oversight, safeguarding equity, and facilitating meaningful, authentic learning experiences. This manifesto emphasizes that GenAI is not ideologically and culturally neutral. Instead, it reflects worldviews that can reinforce existing biases and marginalize diverse voices. Furthermore, as the use of GenAI reshapes education, it risks eroding essential human elements—creativity, critical thinking, and empathy—and could displace meaningful human interactions with algorithmic solutions. This manifesto calls for robust, evidence-based research and conscious decision-making to ensure that GenAI enhances, rather than diminishes, human agency and ethical responsibility in education.
Key Findings
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Although GenAI may personalize learning, improve efficiency, and expand access, it raises challenges for human agency, equity, and meaningful learning.
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GenAI should be used to enhance, rather than diminish, human agency and authentic educational experiences.
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Generative AI in higher education is not ideologically or culturally neutral; its designs embed worldviews, values, and biases.
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Maintaining human oversight and ethical responsibility requires robust, evidence-based research and deliberate decision-making about GenAI integration.
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The increasing use of GenAI risks weakening creativity, critical thinking, empathy, and authentic human interaction by replacing them with algorithmic solutions.
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The integration of Generative AI (GenAI), chatbots, and algorithms into higher education
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The implications for human agency, equity, bias, values, and meaningful human-centered teaching and learning
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