The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

  • Mtrad@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t it make more sense to find ways on how to utilize the tool of AI and set up criteria that would incorporate the use of it?

    There could still be classes / lectures that cover the more classical methods, but I remember being told “you won’t have a calculator in your pocket”.

    My point use, they should prepping students for the skills to succeed with the tools they will have available and then give them the education to cover the gaps that AI can’t solve. For example, you basically need to review what the AI outputs for accuracy. So maybe a focus on reviewing output and better prompting techniques? Training on how to spot inaccuracies? Spotting possible bias in the system which is skewed by training data?

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s just what we tell kids so they’ll learn to do basic math on their own. Otherwise you’ll end up with people who can’t even do 13+24 without having to use a calculator.

      • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        people who can’t even do 13+24 without having to use a calculator

        More importantly, you end up with people who don’t recognize that 13+24=87 is incorrect. Math->calculator is not about knowing the math, per se, but knowing enough to recognize when it’s wrong.

        I don’t envy professors/teachers who are hacing to figure out novel ways of determining the level of mastery of a class of 30, 40, or 100 students in the era of online assistance. Because, really, we still need people who can turn out top level, accurate, well researched documentation. If we lose them, who will we train the next gen LLM on? ;-)

        • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 months ago

          end up with people who don’t recognize that 13+24=87 is incorrect

          I had a telecom teacher who would either allow you to use a calculator, but you had to get everything right.
          Or go without and you could get away with rougher estimates.

          Doing stuff like decibels by hand isn’t too bad if you can get away with a ballpark and it’s a much more useful skill to develop than just punching numbers in a calculator.