Philosopher Gene Flenady (Monash University) has strong reservations about the current push for GenAI into university teaching and learning. If we accept that ChatGPT is an ‘irresponsible bullshitter’ then why is it being welcomed into universities … and what can we do about it? Accompanying reference >>> Flenady, G. & Sparrow, R. (2025). Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-10.
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Philosopher Gene Flenady (Monash University) has strong reservations about the current push for GenAI into university teaching and learning. If we accept that ChatGPT is an ‘irresponsible bullshitter’ then why is it being welcomed into universities … and what can we do about it? Accompanying reference >>> Flenady, G. & Sparrow, R. (2025). Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-10.
Digital disinformation in the age of AI … what can schools do?
Education Technology Society
18 minutes
6 months ago
Digital disinformation in the age of AI … what can schools do?
The growth of deliberately misleading and false information is one of the big concerns of the 2020s. Professor Olof Sundin (Lund University) has been researching students’ (dis)information literacy since the early 2000s. He joins us to talk about the latest developments in this area – particularly the trend of now using AI to both produce *and* retrieve information. Accompanying reference >>> Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2022). Paradoxes of media and information literacy: The c...
Education Technology Society
Philosopher Gene Flenady (Monash University) has strong reservations about the current push for GenAI into university teaching and learning. If we accept that ChatGPT is an ‘irresponsible bullshitter’ then why is it being welcomed into universities … and what can we do about it? Accompanying reference >>> Flenady, G. & Sparrow, R. (2025). Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-10.
