The Students Who Won’t Use AI - by Chris Wells
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A meaningful minority of college students refuse to use AI—and what they’re telling us about the real problems in our classrooms.
The arc is not bending toward uncritical embrace. (Source: Gallup-Lumina, State of Higher Education, 2025.) Downloadable here. In my last post, I argued that “I’m against AI” isn’t one position but three—structural, cognitive, and pedagogical—and that the conversation stalls because we rarely bother to sort them. I wrote it thinking about faculty, but a piece in this week’s Chronicle made me realize I should have been thinking about students, too. Beth McMurtrie’s April 16 Teaching newsletter reports something the dominant AI-in-higher-ed narrative tends to hide: a meaningful minority of…
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