The Rise and Fall of Homework Help Sites: Discussion on AI's Role in Education
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#2With the closure of major homework help platforms in 2024 and emergence of AI-powered alternatives, I'd like to discuss: How should we balance academic integrity with technological innovation? What are constructive ways AI could support learning while preventing misuse? Looking for perspectives from educators, technologists, and students.
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#3With the closure of major homework help platforms in 2024 and emergence of AI-powered alternatives, I'd like to discuss: How should we balance academic integrity with technological innovation? What are constructive ways AI could support learning while preventing misuse? Looking for perspectives from educators, technologists, and students.
I think schools must move on from the "homework" model--that is, the model of education where the students must turn in homework assignments to receive grades that count toward their final GPA--and return to in-person handwritten and verbal examinations as the final measure of student competency. Any system of examination where the task of measuring an individual's competency is outsourced to a fixed system (homework problem set, standardized test, auto-graded essay, take-home exam, etc.) can and will be gamed, including homework. [1] Homework is like working out; it's just practice, and it should be optional.
The only way to keep academia honest and up-to-date is to keep it laser focused on the true purpose of a degree, be it a high school degree or a graduate degree. The purpose of a degree is to confer the recommendation of the institution upon you, certifying that you possess a certain unaided mastery over a body of knowledge. School, especially by high school and certainly above that, should be optional, and your final grades should be assigned entirely based on final exams, rendered in-person and handwritten.
[1] Eventually, people will be able to sneak AI into an examination room via a mini-camera and an earpiece or tiny lens; this will require yet more innovation in testing security and will never be 100% secure.
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#4I wonder when you’ll be able to do mathematics symbols within the AI query box.
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#5I wonder when you’ll be able to do mathematics symbols within the AI query box.
You already can sorta, llms do math better when you write it in latex (assuming it is the kind of math written about in latex more often) but even for early stage math latex is close to how people denote it already so it tends to perform well
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#6With the closure of major homework help platforms in 2024 and emergence of AI-powered alternatives, I'd like to discuss: How should we balance academic integrity with technological innovation? What are constructive ways AI could support learning while preventing misuse? Looking for perspectives from educators, technologists, and students.
I think schools must move on from the "homework" model--that is, the model of education where the students must turn in homework assignments to receive grades that count toward their final GPA--and return to in-person handwritten and verbal examinations as the final measure of student competency. Any system of examination where the task of measuring an individual's competency is outsourced to a fixed system (homework…
Homework is like working out; it's just practice, and it should be optional.
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#7I wonder when you’ll be able to do mathematics symbols within the AI query box.
ChatGPT Pro already allows you to upload drawings / mathematics in terrible handwriting and it can usually make sense of your intended input.
I never took mathematics in college, so I'm not the person to judge AI's accuracy/hallucinogenic nature.
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#8With the closure of major homework help platforms in 2024 and emergence of AI-powered alternatives, I'd like to discuss: How should we balance academic integrity with technological innovation? What are constructive ways AI could support learning while preventing misuse? Looking for perspectives from educators, technologists, and students.
I think schools must move on from the "homework" model--that is, the model of education where the students must turn in homework assignments to receive grades that count toward their final GPA--and return to in-person handwritten and verbal examinations as the final measure of student competency. Any system of examination where the task of measuring an individual's competency is outsourced to a fixed system (homework…
Education is about developing sustained understanding and skills that can be reliably applied over time.
A student who crams for and performs well on a final exam hasn't necessarily developed the deep, lasting comprehension that comes from regular engagement with the material.
Education at China is the way you mentioned, students just learn for exam, them learned nothing but exam
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#9I wonder when you’ll be able to do mathematics symbols within the AI query box.
Yeah, as others mentioned, uploading pictures is a way, writing in latex is another way. Upload pictures costs more than latex but is more convenient. Both of them works well
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think schools must move on from the "homework" model--that is, the model of education where the students must turn in homework assignments to receive grades that count toward their final GPA--and return to in-person handwritten and verbal examinations as the final measure of student competency. Any system of examination where the task of measuring an individual's competency is outsourced to a fixed system (homework…
Homework is like working out; it's just practice, and it should be optional. Practice is essential to developing skills and retaining knowledge. Why should it be optional?
Agree. Education doesn't like sport, just for a peak time, education is about long term human well-being