On Reflection

Making space for critical reading
A question often posed is: Why bother reading a text when AI can summarise it for you and reduce your workload? In the era of ‘work smarter, not harder’ it’s a valid question. However, if we think – and let us be clear here, we do – that there is still value in reading the full piece of writing, that there is more to reading than just gleaning information, then we have to be able to clearly explain why that is and what the added value is for our students.

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