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Harvard research fellow says higher education must rethink what students learn in AI era

FOX Business correspondent Ashley Webster has the latest on the expansion of AI on 'Special Report.' Higher education is at a crossroads as institutions across the country grapple with how to approach artificial intelligence in the classroom. Universities have instituted policies for the technology, while some professors have returned to paper tests and taken other measures aimed at preventing students from improperly using AI. However, Harvard University Senior Research Fellow Christopher Dede says colleges are focusing on the wrong problem and are not adequately preparing students to face a world in which AI is ubiquitous. EDUCATORS WARN AI DEBATE HAS FOCUSED TOO MUCH ON CHEATING, NOT ENOUGH ON STUDENT LEARNING "The problem is that our educational systems are geared to teaching reckoning, and their quality is measured by assessing reckoning, the GR

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