Tag: thinking
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How many R’s are there in ‘strawberry’?
in AIWhen you’re getting poor responses from AI, step back and ask if you’re part of the problem.
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Outsourcing thinking to AI
It’s incredibly hard to think through a problem without writing about it, and you can’t write about it if you’re outsourcing it to AI. Farnam Street. Why Write. Obviously there are benefits to having AI produce output in some contexts. One example that comes to mind is the generic email sent to a large group,…
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Skills we want our students to have
This post was inspired in part by this article on the 10 skills that every student should learn. These are some of the skills that we’re intentionally trying to help our students develop, as a way of integrating them into the culture of professional clinical practice. Reading carefully. If you can read you can learn…
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Content isn’t important, relative to thinking
I just had a brief conversation with a colleague on the nature of the teaching method we’re using in my department. Earlier this year we shifted from a methodology premised on lectures, to the use of case-based learning. I’ve been saying for a while that content is not important, but I’ve realised that I haven’t…