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.

  • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Devise a physical problem that can be tested, have everyone in class pull a ChatGPT answer to it, have them read the answers out loud and vote on which one is right, then apply it to the physical version and see it fail. Show them how tweaking the answer just a bit solves the problem.

    years of mental discipline and ability to understand that their teacher is neither a genius nor a moron

    Ta-da! Just taught them that without all your years.

    I cannot, however, think of a single beneficial way to use this to educate small children

    Then you’re not a teacher. Please don’t ever teach small children.

    • JTode@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Well, I suppose the education system gets the teachers it pays for…

      • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Maybe. I like coming up with ways to explain things, but I don’t like children, so unless they pay me to host a YouTube channel… tough luck.

        • JTode@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          And you think that teaching kids to use ChatGPT to figure out how to fix a broken fence gate, rather than, I dunno, teaching them Woodshop, is a good use of teachers’ time?

          • jarfil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Which one do you think they’re more likely to have 24/7 in their pocket: an AI assistant on a smartphone, or a chisel?

            Even today, the number of people with a multi-tool or a screwdriver, are much fewer than those with a smartphone. Show them a flint and striker, and they look at you like some doomsday prepper nutjob.