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Tardigrade_Sonata's avatar

The problem isn’t that AI has surpassed the analytical capability of a focused, articulate, engaged young reader -- it’s that it is very nearly surpassing what many instructors are forced by long experience to accept from the freshman students admitted to large state universities (at least in the US). That generated sample was boring and repetitive, but more robotically competent than many of the essays I have to grade every semester.

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Peter Ford's avatar

As a secondary math teacher homework is practically useless for assessing student learning. Between messaging solutions to your friends, solution apps like Photomath and Brainly, and even teacher editions of curricula Googleable you can’t trust what students submit as their work.

Having students do exercises in class has painfully but lucidly revealed what they know and can do; a big hill to climb, but bring your water and boots cause we’re hiking it.

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