"But when it comes to tackling cheating, we often end up with the same answer: the staff-student relationship." This is the clear answer. A serious institutional response to the rise of AI cheating would be to hire a lot more faculty to dramatically reduce student-faculty ratios. Refocus on humans. - ThreadSky

mwyarbrough.bsky.social • 57 days ago

"But when it comes to tackling cheating, we often end up with the same answer: the staff-student relationship."

This is the clear answer. A serious institutional response to the rise of AI cheating would be to hire a lot more faculty to dramatically reduce student-faculty ratios. Refocus on humans.

Reposted from Monica Heilman

This might have been shared a lot #onhere already, but I've been gone a while. As far as AI think pieces go, it's a good one.

Increasingly, policing students' AI use feels like a waste of time, too inaccurate, and at odds with universities' rush to embrace AI.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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writingmonicker.bsky.social•57 days ago

As someone on the job market... hiring more faculty sounds like a GREAT idea! 😂

ebenshetler.bsky.social•57 days ago

I'm not sure how a better ratio would reduce AI cheating.

And I'm sure that struggling universities that haven't increased adjunct pay in 5 years will happily hire more staff. /s

mwyarbrough.bsky.social•57 days ago

Smaller ratios mean closer relationships, the ability to meet with students one on one, to show them that you value their work and are reading it, etc.

And no, not likely, but that's not my point.

mwyarbrough.bsky.social•57 days ago

Sorry, that last bit was unnecessarily snarky. This post got a few annoying replies and I got too trigger happy. 🙏🏻

dylanmo.bsky.social•57 days ago

Learning outcomes are considerably easier to judge through personal relationships. Some places are already trying spoken exams for MAs for just that reason. That the money isn't there for that, but is there for mass marketing AI washing machines is a different problem.

wuzzupg.bsky.social•57 days ago

I have at least 2-3 students every term (of 8 weeks in length) I have to report to our office of student conduct re: academic integrity w/ high AI-generated content (>40%) for a 4 page paper. Grammarly is the usual culprit. [1/2]

wuzzupg.bsky.social•57 days ago

Students cannot articulate their ideas in writing and need to use these tools. When I ask them how they will use these “acquired skills” in using AI-generated content in healthcare management, I get blank stares. [2/2]

dmgreene.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yes! These are austerity triage devices.

facesolo.bsky.social•57 days ago

It's always the first step in K-12, too. Almost whatever problem we come to, the best and most obvious thing to do is to have more teachers and smaller ratios.

mwyarbrough.bsky.social•57 days ago

Absolutely!!! Even more so for y'all than us

thedaddyotaku.bsky.social•57 days ago

The grammar error in the headline is the cherry on top.

mwyarbrough.bsky.social•57 days ago

I don't see it?

thedaddyotaku.bsky.social•57 days ago

first is an adverb, not a noun.
The noun that it's describing is missing.
I got (a) first (place/result/ranking/etc.).

mwyarbrough.bsky.social•57 days ago

In the UK "a first" is a common way to describe a top grade

thedaddyotaku.bsky.social•57 days ago

Interesting. Hmm. It's a quote too so I guess they have to keep it like that. Cheers!

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