Sam Goree
@samgoree.bsky.social
Interested in things that are both computational and qualitative, especially surrounding AI. Assistant professor of computer science at Stonehill College, he/him https://samgoree.github.io
If someone holds a fixed mindset, that there are certain skills they are inherently bad at, I'd bet they think AI gives them new capabilities.
If they hold a growth mindset, that being bad at a skill means they need practice, I'd bet they use AI minimally to learn, or avoid it on principle.
If they hold a growth mindset, that being bad at a skill means they need practice, I'd bet they use AI minimally to learn, or avoid it on principle.
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If someone holds a fixed mindset, that there are certain skills they are inherently bad at, I'd bet they think AI gives them new capabilities.
If they hold a growth mindset, that being bad at a skill means they need practice, I'd bet they use AI minimally to learn, or avoid it on principle.
If they hold a growth mindset, that being bad at a skill means they need practice, I'd bet they use AI minimally to learn, or avoid it on principle.
This starts to sound a lot like the "fixed vs. growth mindset" idea. While I haven't tested this formally, I feel like I can predict people's perspectives on AI by the way they think about their own intelligence.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This starts to sound a lot like the "fixed vs. growth mindset" idea. While I haven't tested this formally, I feel like I can predict people's perspectives on AI by the way they think about their own intelligence.
From that perspective, the AI in education debate boils down to a question: is college a performance that students do to signal their inherent worth to employers, or is it a process that helps students to build expertise?
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
From that perspective, the AI in education debate boils down to a question: is college a performance that students do to signal their inherent worth to employers, or is it a process that helps students to build expertise?
I don't want to be a cop and chase after students for academic dishonesty, but I also really can't bring myself to allow students to use these tools to skip the actual work of their homework.
What are the rest of y'all doing out there?
What are the rest of y'all doing out there?
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I don't want to be a cop and chase after students for academic dishonesty, but I also really can't bring myself to allow students to use these tools to skip the actual work of their homework.
What are the rest of y'all doing out there?
What are the rest of y'all doing out there?
My students and college admin are strongly pro-AI, but most of the smart people I follow online are against it, and I am generally convinced by their arguments (and I don't trust my admin or my students to tell me what to do in the classroom)
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My students and college admin are strongly pro-AI, but most of the smart people I follow online are against it, and I am generally convinced by their arguments (and I don't trust my admin or my students to tell me what to do in the classroom)
On the other hand, the CS ed research seems to recommend allowing and even teaching AI in students' first CS course.
This is a result that I literally can't believe. Am I wrong? Or is the research skewed in favor of big tech?
This is a result that I literally can't believe. Am I wrong? Or is the research skewed in favor of big tech?
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
On the other hand, the CS ed research seems to recommend allowing and even teaching AI in students' first CS course.
This is a result that I literally can't believe. Am I wrong? Or is the research skewed in favor of big tech?
This is a result that I literally can't believe. Am I wrong? Or is the research skewed in favor of big tech?
I probably should have known that already, but it's never come up before.
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I probably should have known that already, but it's never come up before.
I thought "oh I'll just update it with my pfp from here" but that turns out to be from 2022. I should probably get a professional photo taken of me at some point.
September 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I thought "oh I'll just update it with my pfp from here" but that turns out to be from 2022. I should probably get a professional photo taken of me at some point.
We do some amount of pseudocode, but our current course design places a significant emphasis on weekly programming homeworks. ChatGPT can generate perfect solutions to most of them, and students will choose to skip the puzzling-through by generating both their pseudocode and final working code.
September 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We do some amount of pseudocode, but our current course design places a significant emphasis on weekly programming homeworks. ChatGPT can generate perfect solutions to most of them, and students will choose to skip the puzzling-through by generating both their pseudocode and final working code.
For context, I have no interest in endorsing or teaching students how to use chatbots. But I also do not see banning generative AI as a long term solution, and am looking for examples of what that middle ground looks like.
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
For context, I have no interest in endorsing or teaching students how to use chatbots. But I also do not see banning generative AI as a long term solution, and am looking for examples of what that middle ground looks like.