67 Reflections on Learning
Beginning To Reflect
What I Know Now About Using AI (9/7)
Before this class, I believed that artificial intelligence (AI) was mainly used when students wanted to cheat on writing assignments. However, through exercises that we have done in class, such as using AI to compare a biomedical and fictional source about the same illness, I have realized that there is more to using AI. When using AI in writing and learning there are several factors that must be considered, the first being when AI is beneficial. In certain circumstances, AI can be used to broaden knowledge on general topics and include details about sources such as books and movies without having to read them entirely. However, there are limits to AI, that must also be considered. These include the fact that AI cannot interpret what the audience wants to hear, does not consider including information that will be more emotionally moving, and oftentimes, fails to sound human in writing style. This makes me wonder, can you prompt AI to consider your audience? Can you prompt AI to appeal to certain human emotions? I don’t entirely know the answer to these questions yet. You can certainly try. While my overall impression of AI has changed, I now maintain that, AI, while useful, should remain as only a part of research and writing, and must be used responsibly. It is important that people learn about how to use AI effectively because it is now part of society, how we live, and how we learn.
Active Listening Practice (9/13)
What makes Health Humanities different
When we compare social and biomedical science with the humanities, the two are very different despite both playing large roles in patient care and treatment. Social and biomedical sciences examine things through a quantitative lens. They gather their information and background based on surveys, experiments, interviews and demographic data. On the other hand, humanities acquire this knowledge through film, literature, poetry, visual art, performance, and discussion. These two areas also have different goals and characteristics. Social and biomedical sciences aim for objectivity and produce generalizable knowledge. Their goal is to explain, predict, and control so that they can intervene to solve problems. Those in humanities want to capture and represent the richness of human experience and advocate for others through empathy and understanding. Their goal is to give voice to every human, and they pay special care to preserving history.
When we compare health and medical humanities, it is obvious that health is a more encompassing term. Medical humanities originated when questions of moral ethics began to arise in treating patients as a result of technological advances. Now, there is a new movement to change the term in education to health humanities as to acknowledge that there are more dimensions to health than medicine. We now know that to truly understand a patient and their health we must look at the social factors that influence their life. Examples of these factors include sex, gender, income, religion, geographic location, and race. All of these identities relate to a person’s health and healing.