Every time people say the next generation of AI will be better, remember that they mean they’re dumping orders of magnitude more environmental damage into the thing, with no clear idea how they’ll solve the biggest issues it has.
Don't you think it's a huge coincidence that all the people who were huge crypto proponents and have warehouses full of GPUs that are no longer profitable for mining think that AI is a GREAT idea that EVERYONE should be using...
We were required to use the same assessment where I taught. It was well known that kids cheated. I used to make 5 different versions to make sure I was getting accurate data on what my kids knew so I could review. Other teachers couldn’t be bothered. I think writing it out or oral exams…
This is how we get to more accurate and fair assessment of student progress. Of course I doubt this will come to pass it requires more teachers and individualized instruction.
It's how some teachers are dealing with students turning in AI generated papers. Back to having them do essays in class in floppy notebooks. I don't think it's the worst thing so long as they consider accessibility (they won't, they never do)
Germany doesn’t do pure multiple choice tests in school or uni. A-levels or whatever you call the final exams before graduation are hour-long tests on a random topic of the curriculum. Daughter had 5h exam in main subject. Written! eg: in English, you can get a poem analysis or essay on a topic. /1
I tried AI out for a conference proposal- I fed it my resume and asked it to write my bio. The results were laughable. You still need to be able to evaluate and edit the results. And that’s the issue for me. In order to evaluate information you are consuming, you should learn to create it.
hey, it cuts out a source of income for those of us who are good at writing, and used to write papers for schoolmates for money! I bought myself a fair amount of food and weed that way in college. It should NOT be free to have someone else do your work for you.
I don’t understand the whole cursive’ discussion. Is that not just regular handwriting? as in… longhand? with a pen/fountain pen? How is that not part of the curriculum?
Is that a US special thing? how else would you write? I can’t grasp the issue at all.
Printed letters are taught to kids in their first years of school; cursive isn’t taught until later…. Apparently that, along with many other things, has been cut out in favor of drills to practice for standardized math/reading tests. Sort of the way city tax $ all end up with the police dept.
Yup. Can confirm that kids were coming to my 7th grade science classroom with less and less science knowledge because of the focus on standardized tests in English and Math. ( with very little to show for this focus)
I'm with you, Katja, I don't get the cursive debate at all. Cursive flows, it's faster than printing each letter. In pre-laptop university lectures (yes, I'm that old), I took notes in cursive (and invented my own abbreviations because even cursive wasn't fast enough).
Cursive is also helpful in brain development and mitigating some learning challenges. Worth the time to teach it- especially when some of those learning disabilities are not diagnosed until much later.
They used to spend time on penmanship and writing during the elementary years- graded on neatness. Now they spend so little time on script that many of our Gen Z can’t read it. It’s unfortunate in my opinion. Among other things, Muscle memory is important.
Cursive was created in order to save wear and tear on pen nibs, which didn't become metal until the 1800s. It became obsolete with the invention of the ballpoint/biro in 1938.
I learned cursive in 3rd grade and abandoned it as illegible in 7th grade. I haven't missed it.
I understand. I’m laughing at my fellow teachers. Not kids. If AI forces us to get rid of standardized tests and individually evaluate learning based on where the student is, our system will have taken a step forward.
A big part of the "Singularity" religion was that once we made a smart computer, that computer would make itself smarter and smarter. The smartest critics pointed out that computers making themselves stupider and stupider at rates no human could reach was an option.
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It's never been THAT hard for students to pay for a C paper. Making it automated isn't so much of a difference.
Is that a US special thing? how else would you write? I can’t grasp the issue at all.
I learned cursive in 3rd grade and abandoned it as illegible in 7th grade. I haven't missed it.