Noah Berlatskythe scandal re giving good grades to an AI essay is that we think teaching has something to do with grades.
are students there to learn or are they there to be assessed?
AI bots don't interfere with the first.
I just see a certain amount of academics posting on social media who are obsessed with student cheating. just, constantly posting about how they caught student a, or how this other student has been reported to the dean, or whatever.
who are the students hurting but themselves if they cheat? are you there to teach them? are you there to certify them for future employers?
I just don't see who really loses out except the student in question if the student doesn't do the assignment. you're there to be a resource, not a cop.
I mean, I'm not a teacher and I know admin works hard to make teachers act as cops, and you can get in trouble for not being enough of a cop in a lot of situations.
but still, if you're super concerned about whether ai will allow students to cheat, it just seems like your focus is out of whack.
Ben Rosengart@nberlat You’re serving @[email protected] (I wish he’d come over here).
subdee@nberlat You have to see what happens in an environment where cheating isn't something one or two kids do quietly but something the whole class does openly. It become a class management issue. You can try to manage in other ways besides the fear of the exam - personal charisma, making the class more fun, low-stakes testing with retests and corrections, etc - but it does change the class dynamic when you reach that tipping point of the MAJORITY of the class cheating even when they don't have to.
@nberlat Like I fundamentally agree with you that teachers shouldn't be cops - which is why I teach high school, not elementary school LOL - but if you don't address the cheating issue early in the year, speaking from experience the rest of the year will be miserable