Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym.
It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.
It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.
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Here, I've had AI generate a multiple choice test on the subject of the novel Absalom, Absalom. For each of the 100 questions, you must choose the sentence Faulkner did write.
"I got the best grades in half the time!"
No. You cheated. And it's my job to tell you that. And why.
In it he touches on two of my pet peeves.
Income Inequality:
Median income hasn’t kept pace with per-capita GDP because of Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman, and the management policies of Jack Welch.
Ted's pretty smart.
The incentive is the grade, its what employers see, it keeps your financial aid.
I completely agree, but the incentive structure is a mess.
Like, always? (😉)
Training to be Republicans, they are?
Maybe I’ve got the Hoth for you…
Every student copied the Google AI answer on the exam, which only mentions two aspects.
Grrrrr
Ok, so I know it's different. It's going to be a detriment to the first generation of college kids. But some kids will still find ways to learn and be successful. It just might not be the same privileged ones who skated through life before.
But then again, I'm kinda old.
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The learning is in the doing-
the finding and identifying your resources,
critical thinking,
retaining information vs regurgitating it,
using your own words to discuss,
refining strengths,
developing growth, &
addressing weaknesses.
*you plebes
I told some young learners in the family that, imo, the key takeaway from higher education isn’t learning to regurgitate facts and dates; it’s learning how to think about one’s thinking.
There’s all those levers…
So, when do we tell MAGA to start building those factories?
So they can fill those empty shelves.
“Get busy, losers.”
We're teaching hundreds of millions that reading is an unnecessary prerequisite for viewpoint formation.
Couple that with SV anti-empathy attitude...