ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can't not read that in his voice

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago

I read it three times perfecting his voice, then I read your comment.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren't a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

I mean, graded take home essays are a waste. It's like assigning weight training. Good for exercising, and we can talk about your form when you're done.

But as soon as you start stack ranking the results, the incentive to cheat outpaces the goal of practicing ingesting and outputing ideas.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 17 hours ago

95/100, this grade brought to you by Doctor Squatch.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Yeah... That's a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that'll get ya fired or sued. Lol

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de -4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

of course, most of school was bullshit long before AI, so what

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

School is suppose to teach you how to critically think and learn. The material is mostly there to prove you have the ability to do it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it's hard to do education any other way.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's because it's not the school that is bullshit.

It's some of the stuff people do there. At the same time, some aren't. And we are incredibly bad at telling the difference, and worse than useless on doing that at scale.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

best part of my education happened outside of class, in TA and office hours (or prepping for them). same with best part of my college years.