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ANY real kid that is unpretentious would do. A "I use AI to cheat at school" article would be far more interesting that this "Oh my God, my peers are hopeless but not me" piece.
If you're judging without even knowing the content of the hypothetical alternative then is the difference just that one premise offends you while the other supports you?
Maybe they can allow AI for writing but raise the bar on quality so the blind copy-paste submissions still fail. I've still never read a good AI-generated doc at work, it's always verbose and aimless. At this point I close the doc if I catch a whiff. Unlike the AI code which is fine. It's probably either that or ban it and do everything in-person, which might have to be the stopgap solution.
> Maybe they can allow AI for writing but raise the bar on quality so the blind copy-paste submissions still fail. These are highschoolers, still learning to write - their output won't be the best. It won't be long at all until AI can write as well as the average (honest, pre-AI) highschooler, if we're not past that point already.
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Struggling to understand what you're saying but it sounds like you're making two points: * We should dismiss the concerns in TFA because the author is... A good and conscientious student? Who is both unpopular and also the class president? * The students who are outsourcing their thinking, or at least their work, to LLMs, have good reasons for this and the reasons are not addressed in the piece The first point is at…
I'm wondering why is this being published in the first place. It's not an interesting or illuminating perspective, it's a pretentious student telling us nothing new. I gave no opinions on AI, yet I do think it's very much a problem. This article presents neither good ideas to tackle it, nor an insightful perspective on the problem.
I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building of managing unstructured time without direct supervision. Homework- at home- seemed like such a fundamental part of the schooling experience. Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they onl…
I’ve seen a similar change but didn’t realize this, makes sense. Combined with a complete lack of textbooks, college is going to be quite a surprise!! Oddly, English teachers tell students to use Grammerly and standardized tests use AI for grading student essays. For writing assignments, students are given a “prompt”. Never heard it called such in my schooling…
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Struggling to understand what you're saying but it sounds like you're making two points: * We should dismiss the concerns in TFA because the author is... A good and conscientious student? Who is both unpopular and also the class president? * The students who are outsourcing their thinking, or at least their work, to LLMs, have good reasons for this and the reasons are not addressed in the piece The first point is at…
I'm wondering why is this being published in the first place. It's not an interesting or illuminating perspective, it's a pretentious student telling us nothing new. I gave no opinions on AI, yet I do think it's very much a problem. This article presents neither good ideas to tackle it, nor an insightful perspective on the problem.
Phones shouldn't be in the classroom, and devices used in the classroom shouldn't have any access to AI.
Students shouldn't really have homework anyway so I think it's completely reasonable to just have kids doing work on pen and paper in the class for the most part.
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I'm wondering why is this being published in the first place. It's not an interesting or illuminating perspective, it's a pretentious student telling us nothing new. I gave no opinions on AI, yet I do think it's very much a problem. This article presents neither good ideas to tackle it, nor an insightful perspective on the problem.
The point of publishing it seems to me to be "kids in classrooms also think this is a problem". The subject matter is often talked about in the upper echelons and among adults, it's good to see a kid's prospective. It's equivalent to an essay by a kid saying they also struggle with the effects of social media -- it creates a broader consensus environment, helping to build buy in for a shared paradigm
What I'm saying is precisely that the take of a more genuine, less pretentious kid, would be far more insightful.
It's a weak editorial choice.
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Struggling to understand what you're saying but it sounds like you're making two points: * We should dismiss the concerns in TFA because the author is... A good and conscientious student? Who is both unpopular and also the class president? * The students who are outsourcing their thinking, or at least their work, to LLMs, have good reasons for this and the reasons are not addressed in the piece The first point is at…
I'm wondering why is this being published in the first place. It's not an interesting or illuminating perspective, it's a pretentious student telling us nothing new. I gave no opinions on AI, yet I do think it's very much a problem. This article presents neither good ideas to tackle it, nor an insightful perspective on the problem.