lynn / clarissaJun 2, 2025

As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else

it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for

well

maybe forever, really

and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesJun 2, 2025

@left_adjoint

Bingo.

The #LLM are not the problem in #education, it's how and what we teach is.
If you think #AI is "cheating", you are actively disabling your students for a world that will already be hard for humans to survive in.

Show threadFabio G.Jun 2, 2025

@n_dimension

How is forbidding the use of AI “disabling” my students?

@left_adjoint

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesJun 2, 2025

@magitweeter @left_adjoint

While the elites are waiting for the "AI bubble to burst"
There is going to be a world out there, run by corporations, doing what the corporations always did. Replacing humans with machines.

If you churn out students unprepared to be competitive in that world you are disabling them.

Sure, they can develop their own social economy, giving each other hugs, painting and going to each other's recitals. But I don't think that's what mum and dad had in mind sending the kid to an #educational institutions to give them advantage.

Show threadFabio G.
@n_dimension You make several questionable assumptions, but let's take them at face value for the sake of argument. Still, how is letting AI do their homework for them going to make them more competitive, rather than less?
Jun 2, 2025 at 11:51pmWeb
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesJun 2, 2025

@magitweeter

Q: How is #AI going to make students more competitive?

A: Because 95% of the general population and 99.9% of the #Luddites are unable to use AI effectively. Just like googling, the quality of response is directly proportional to the quality of the query.

The old computer axiom "Bullshit in, bullshit out" holds true still.

Show threadFabio G.Jun 3, 2025
@n_dimension Not if the skill to use AI effectively is developed at the expense of the critical thinking skills that would be developed if the student faced the assignment without AI.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesJun 3, 2025

@magitweeter

...and therefore this weighty responsibility to strike the balance lies on your shoulders.

Show threadFabio G.Jun 3, 2025
@n_dimension Right. And i strike the balance by forbidding the use of AI and requiring my students to think for themselves. Critical thinkers can decide on their own time whether AI offers them anything of value, and how to make effective use of it if so.