Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

"But faculty need to create experiences worthy of that struggle, designing challenges that feel meaningful rather than arbitrary, and showing students why the journey matters as much as the destination."

"Students need to understand that learning requires friction—that intellectual struggle isn't a bug in the system, it's a feature."

As Clay Shirky put it in a recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Ed: “While the output of any given course is student assignments - papers, exams, research projects, and so on - the product of that course is student experience.”

www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

I have probably only met Adriana in webinars and zoom meetings, but I feel like I know her. She is a force for good in the MAA and the wider math community.

Do you want a big overview of NSF, explaining things like the fact that 24% of all federally funded academic fundamental research comes from NSF? And that 94% of its budget goes out the door in grants/awards? Here you go. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Factsh...