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AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students (futurism.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

"I am often left with a choice between soliciting participation where students are merely the deadpan voice boxes of hallucinatory AI slop, or silence," the Philadelphia teacher despaired. "Which am I supposed to choose?"

ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo," Nathan Schmidt, a university lecturer and managing editor at Gamers With Glasses, told 404.

Seems to be easier to blame students for understandably responding to rote-practice, monotonous factory-work oriented slopfest curricula with slop, rather than actually addressing the core issue at hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What is that core issue, in your opinion?

[–] doo 9 points 5 days ago

I would say that we've just discovered that our approach to test knowledge and critical thinking was secondary to the means we used.

Apparently, essay writing doesn't require either of those.

Which means we have to think how we teach kids. They will and should use helper tools, but just like we teach multiplication table before allowing calculators, well have to establish what students have to learn before they can use the LLMs in their studying.

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