We've identified a critical gap in current AI education research: the absence of student voices. While much is written about us, very little includes our direct experiences and insights. Our collective research demonstrates that we bring unique and valuable perspectives as the primary users of AI in education.
One of the tasks we did over the course of the semester was to review existing literature on how AI is impacting higher ed. What we found was that we were missing. Our perspectives were not sufficiently present. As Nat, Kiet, Sandy, Cindy, and Melanie said in their podcast, "as students, we are the right voice for this conversation."
From "The Two-Year Test":
"We want to hear more from students. We want to hear from undergrads. We want to know what's working and what's not because we all have our personal opinions when we're talking to our friends, we're speaking to professors, but we would actually like to see the science of it from actual surveys, actual interviews."
From "Decoding Complexity:
"As students, we are the right voice for this conversation and with how progressive technologies has become for our generation. Now is the perfect time for us to explore this idea."
From "Critical Thinking in Crisis":
"The stereotype that I feel like most of the time we hear from students is that um AI is being used as a cheating tool, like we haven't heard, like you just said, um how you actually use it to help you understand a complex or a big project."
"Research doesn't address the moral aspect of how students truly feel about AI. Because the students are the ones that are technically getting expelled and in trouble for "plagiarizing" and stuff...We need to address more students and we need to speak to them in a way that's using pathos to make them feel like okay let me not plagiarize let me use AI in a different way instead of just abusing it as a tool"
From "AI Bandits":
"As students, we are the right voice for this conversation and with how progressive technologies has become for our generation. Now is the perfect time for us to explore this idea."
From "The Two Year Test":
"I feel like this would be very important if you if educators got the chance to actually hear from us. This is a two-way street. Maybe students are upset that their educators are using AI and they want to talk about it or maybe they're just upset about the whole idea or they're just so happy. We will never know unless we have these surveys."
From "Dialogue with AI":
"This is the conversations we need to have with the students, with the future generations, with just everybody, to bring everybody into the conversation so that we can have a more productive future."
From "Grades vs. Growth":
"All of our academic sources that we've found so far really doesn't touch upon how students, or at least incorporate stories of students and how they actually feel in terms of using AI."
From "Human Cost":
"No one understands the journey of navigating this profound world of AI as much as students who are going through the same thing."
"The first gap we were able to notice throughout our articles is how studies show that students’ financial backgrounds affect how they experience AI in education, but only scholars’ opinions were included in the research."
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