Their students _are_ the bots. Like a cordyceps infecting and controlling its host, AI models are now controlling what students say in a classroom in real-time. I desperately urge lecturers to decisively nip this in the bud as quickly as possible.
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The alternative is wasting time scolding students instead of teaching content. LLMs aren't going away. Best to teach students how to use them critically and constructively.
Along with the value of thinking though problems rather than blindly reiterating ChatGPT. 🤷
You're not wasting time scolding students for using chatGPT in class when asked a direct question! Convey to them that the intent behind your question is not that you'd like them to google/chatGPT something for you, but for them to use their brains! This has more value than 60 sec more "content."
I'm pretty sure the good students understand this.
It's important to set the expectations from the start, yes. But at university level, students should already understand that failing to think for themselves will ultimately mean they will fail assessments and are wasting everybody's time. 🤷
Well, this student didn’t know that, or hadn’t sufficiently internalized it. Any policy that only serves “the good students” but does nothing to help the rest grow is a disservice. I’ve had profs give inscrutable lectures and, when asked to clarify, reply that “the good students would’ve gotten it.”
I agree with you that anybody who thinks the intent of such a classroom question is to make students prompt an LLM for the answer likely should not be at university – but that disappointment should be made explicit by the lecturer so that students can learn from it.
Eff that. That is something intolerable. I'd report and complain to the Dean and vocally encourage the rest of the class to do so. I am paying $1000s for an AI-assisted discussion.
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The alternative is wasting time scolding students instead of teaching content. LLMs aren't going away. Best to teach students how to use them critically and constructively.
Along with the value of thinking though problems rather than blindly reiterating ChatGPT. 🤷
It's important to set the expectations from the start, yes. But at university level, students should already understand that failing to think for themselves will ultimately mean they will fail assessments and are wasting everybody's time. 🤷
It's also a disservice to them if classes get derailed by students who don't.
But point taken, some effort should be made to teach these things.
Pls to lecture me about AI, I use it everyday. 🙄