‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘
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Great article.
Good question. But maybe we’ve gone overboard with the density of information and we just need to relax a little and give the kids their childhood back.
I’m all for letting children be children, but this article is about college students who are, generally speaking, supposed to be adults.
Fair.
It’s not the density of information. It’s the end goal of the process. Students are only given motivation to learn for a career and people have figured out that most jobs are bullshit. If they can bullshit their way though college, they can bullshit their into a career. When layoffs are done by lottery, it’s not even like the sincere students can be safe. It’s bullshit stacked on top of other bullshit.
I was thinking of primary school. I’d say back then learning is more intrinsically motivated if not overdone.
So am I. From the very beginning, kids are constantly asked what they want to do when they grow up, which should be fine, but the adult asking that will always follow up with a suggestion.
You’re right, if there’s anything wrong with education in the US, it’s that we do too much of it 🙄
I think a fair argument could be that we have the wrong mix, the wrong emphasis.
For example, my kids history class focusing more about memorizing dates and names rather than the broader picture. We need history, but rote memorization of the trivia isn’t that helpful. More analytical perspective about connecting events to outcomes and comparing the scenarios to one another, but I suppose that’s too hard to fairly grade and so we don’t like it…