The problem is also that a lot of uni/college studying for students is endless, (not always but often) unfun and almost ritualistic stream of homework essays of given topics, that you just have to do to pass, and many times you are also punishes for going outside the set box. It was this for me. This is just because the real point of isn’t to learn, or really prepare for working life or profession, or academic career it’s really to quantify the students learning for a purpose of a grade that leads to a degree. Essays are just the easy way to test handling of abstract ideas for a large amount of students. Then people whine that students now are tempted to turn to the magic talking box that can do the boring work for them.
To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
Submitted 3 hours ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/
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Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Share the pain, make them hand-write everything. 😉
cibicibi@discuss.tchncs.de 29 minutes ago
The good old (fountain) pen and paper are the only solution for this, together with oral examinations. I started studying at the University just a few years before covid and AI happened. I withnessed this unfortunate change on my skin… I remember that at the beginning the quality of teachings was much higher than in the last years. I never really learned anything online and at a certain point it become difficult to engage in group tasks because other students were just using AI. At the end, I graduated but I don’t feel that I got what I wanted. The first time when I saw an AI generated assignment from one of my classmates, I thought that this person was lacking critical thinking capabilities (I didn’t know at the time that it was AI generated). I believe that REAL negative effects of AI in education will be felt soon and it will be painful. Skilled jobs cannot rely on people that graduated just by prompting on chatbots.