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"Cleary is among those professors trying to tackle that challenge with strategic interventions. Through an elective called the Science of Learning she hopes that if students read the research on memory and learning they will adopt better strategies. These desirable difficulties include strategies like testing yourself regularly on what you've learned, rather than reading the same passage over and over with a highlighter in hand. "What we're teaching people doesn't feel good," Cleary admits. And the techniques require continual practice to be effective. "It's a horrible sales pitch." Cleary also helps other faculty members figure out how to incorporate these strategies in their teaching. Students tend not to like, say, weekly quizzes. And professors often don't want to stop in the middle of a lecture to ask students to jot down what they've learned so far. It makes Cleary uncomfortable, too. "It feels like I'm not doing anything. I'm just standing there," she says. "I should be cramming more content into my lecture.""

" In truth, generative AI is statistically going to be more accurate and right on anything I will come up with for answers regarding weather and climate, geology, or quantitative analysis. That is, even if it is wrong on some things, it is going to be more right than I ever will be and even if it is wrong, I'm not going to know it. Still-better chances of it figuring things out in that domain than me. However, if I want to be deeply knowledgeable in a particular domain, I want to be quite careful in how I use generative AI because it would be incredibly important for me to understand its limitations and aim to always have a better and deeper understanding of the subject and the way the AI tool might not get it. This leads me to think that what we might see in the future is more splitting of the core curriculum to be "Discipline 101" and "Discipline 101 for majors". So there is a generalized History, Science, Comp, etc that more actively considers the role of generative AI for students and then, a "History 101 for History Majors" that focuses more specifically on the exact skills needed to understand the discipline in a way that can more effectively discerned from Generative AI. "