Cheaters Gotta Cheat

Someone just asked me to cheat on a tutoring platform. I’ve reported them.

Yep, cheaters gotta cheat. Don’t you know? Here’s what happened. Someone posted a job offer for tutoring. I responded to the offer. A few hours later, I got a message that said:

• I’d just get the problems, and I’d just have to give the answers.
• There’s a 2-hour limit.
• There are 25 problems.
• A time at which we’d do this deed.

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How is this tutoring? This is not teaching someone how to solve math problems. This is asking me to answer exam questions for some kid. This is not what I do. I’m not a cheater! Note that this request was made in contravention of the stated academic honesty policy of the platform. The gall!

I guess they looked at my profile, saw that I was green on this platform, and decided that I’d easily play into their games. Haha. As if. I may be green on the platform, but I’m not green at life. I did have a teaching stint in a college some years back, and I reported two cheaters in my classes then. I can do it again.

I really don’t see what’s in it for me. If I were to accept this charade, I’d be getting two hours of pay, and maybe some repeat business, in two hour chunks or so. However, when I teach someone how to solve problems, I do spend more than two hours per exam with them. So, right off the bat, this is a shitty proposition.

In addition, and more importantly, if someone has no qualms asking a tutor to cheat in this way, they’ve proved themselves to be a dirtbag. Do I want to do business with dirtbags? Nope. Getting them to pay for my services might be hard. They might also leave me a shitty review for reasons that have nothing to do with tutoring. In my experience, dirtbags are unstable.

Finally, taking timed tests is not what I want to do with my time. Yes, I can do it, no, I do not want to do it.

I reported them to the tutoring platform. The platform responded that they are taking care of it.

#AcademicHonesty #AutisticWriters #cheating #tutoring #YourAutisticLife

https://www.yourautisticlife.com/2024/08/01/cheaters-gotta-cheat/

AI Plagiarism Considerations Part 1: AI Plagiarism Detectors https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/ai-plagiarism-considerations-part

Perfectly-timed - I was just having a conversation with an instructor about these "tools".

#AI #Plagiarism #Detection #Ethics #AcademicHonesty #AcademicIntegrity

Got introspective while mowing the lawn today, and machines can be great but the #ai boom is so skewed. As a demo, I still love this 2016 paper by Ribeirio, Singh, and Guesterin.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04938

If that doesn't work, I just get a decision tree out and have a large group time themselves in a robust session of 20 questions... it's the counting tasks we should be handing off to the machines, not the rest of it. #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #computing #academichonesty #honestai

Here's a remix of popular classic segments that focus on the evolving nature of academic integrity and how to manage in our #anatomy & #physiology courses.
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#AcademicIntegrity #Plagiarism #Cheating #AcademicHonesty https://t.co/6YttKHcFgX https://theapprofessor.org/podcast-episode-146.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I will be leading a #free & #open webinar on Strategies to Support Online #AcademicIntegrity - November 10, 2022. 12-1PM ET.
#Cheating is a #pedagogical issue, not a technological one. This session will provide strategies, tools, & resources to assist #OnlineFaculty & #IDs better understand how to support online #AcademicHonesty & online faculty/learner success. #OnlineTeaching #OnlineLearning #InstructionalDesign
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