Iteria

I think that for school, assignments will just evolve. We'll go back to in classroom essays probably. We'll also see the nature of assignments change. I remember when I was in high school and the internet was in its infancy. My history just gave us more specific topics to write on to force us to use books. My young cousin who came a decade behind me. Found himself with topics that necessitated using scholarly sources. Wikipedia wasn't gonna cut it. I imagine in grade school it will be like that with assignments that need some kind of human invention while allowing for inescapable technology use.

I went to a top engineering college, to say that cheating wad rampant and creative was an understatement. I thought how the professors got around that was fascinating in retrospect. Some assignments were intentionally unpassable. If you got a passing grade, you failed. Your curved grade was based on standard distribution of not only your class, but every other class that had every been.

Projects and in person things were super common. Assignments were keyed to you as a person and no one in the class had the exact same assignment. For that reason collaboration in project based classes was expected and encouraged.

The one thing AI will never have is discretion and yoi can't get their output with a linked computer. I look forward to seeing how schools adapt their assessments around these facts.

To be honest, I'm not sure how one could reasonably regulate AI. It feels like "locks are for honest people. For everyone else, there's windows." Unlike a nuclear bomb, it's fairly trivial to make an AI of any sort. I think it'll be interesting to see how we catch rogue actors in this space.

I see you like to live dangerously. But yes that should be an option.

I tried to join programming.dev but they were having a tech problem. I wanted to join them because I learned about lemmy through the programee space. I hopped to lemmy.world and then immediately realized that was a bad idea for future stability. It was leggy and the flood hadn't even begun. Then I learned about sh.itjust.works and I picked it for stability reasons and having a decent amount of users. I stayed because I'm digging it for now and it was totally stable through the flood.

On top of what people have noted about No Child Left Behind and underfunded schools, I think some people are missing just how unnecessary it was to be able to read before the rise of the internet and smartphones. My dad is 52. He used to brag to me all the time that he could read and he passed high school. This was a valid thing to brag about because if you took an account of blue collar men in the area they couldn't. They didn't see the point because why would you need to read? Your wife who could read at a 6th grade level or above could read and it's women's work to handle to go to places and pay bills and all that BS. All the women in my family can read at a basic level because of gender roles. Now could they read well enough to be ready for college, well that's up for debate, but they're good enough for a text conversation. The men were a different story. I remember when I was a kid they had markings in the street so the bus drivers could know the routes. It wasn't assumed they could read street signs.

So just consider anyone gen X and older and consider that the older they are the more likely they are to either be illiterate, functionally illiterate, or just have a basic ability to read and nothing more. For the younger generations actually illiteracy is basically impossible, but functional illiteracy and only basic is highly probable due to high rates of poverty, underfunding in schools, and the high incentive schools have go pass kids at any cost.

I'm sorry, were you actually around during the era that "flamewar" was coined. Making people mad on the internet has been around forever. It's just that now we're stupid enough to associate our internet personas with our real life ones. If people could have showed up to your door in the 90s they would have. They certainly threatened to. Tracking down people on 4chan used to be a past time in the early 00s. Perhaps we weren't on the same early internet.

I was sure this was going to be tihi, but food crimes is so much more appropriate.

I don't know how it works in New Zealand, but in the US fruit is weighed for cost. The plastic bags don't really weigh anything, but imagine if you have cloth then that could add to your cost. Of course you could just take the fruit out, but what if you bought 10 separate apples (which I do a lot) or something like that? There's probably a work around. I'm just not aware.

It's hard. I took out a loan against my 401K to do it when rates were rock bottom. I'm glad I did because at the time I considered just waiting until the pandemic was over, but that would have priced me put of this town if I did that.

Aye

I had such a raw disgust reading that headline. I wondered what fucking state would do that. Then I got to the end. So Italy is just speed running to open fascism. That sucks.