—Mat Honan, editor in chief

Welcome to the Schooling Problem, our newest print journal. It’s turning into more and more clear that we’re in a completely new place relating to the usage of 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. 

Applied sciences like ChatGPT, OpenAI’s massively mind-blowing generative AI software program, could have all types of genuinely helpful and transformative functions within the classroom. Sure, they are going to nearly actually even be used for dishonest. However banishing these sorts of applied sciences from the classroom, moderately than making an attempt to harness them, is shortsighted.

These have been simply a number of the issues on our minds after we began placing collectively the newest print concern of MIT Know-how Evaluate: trying to the way forward for schooling and the position expertise will play in shaping it.

Right here’s only a number 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 write down 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.

+ Contained in the challenges of educating children who flip between books and screens.

+ Why academics in Denmark are utilizing apps to audit their college students’ moods.