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1. vjk800 · 1790409528 · focus · HN ↗

   It's funny how people talk about "teaching" getting more difficult with LLMs.

   Clearly teaching got a lot better, since we now have a new teaching tool at our use, the LLMs. It's evaluating that got harder, because students can use the same tool to cheat in traditional forms of evaluation.

   If "teaching the students" means the same as "evaluating the students" to you, maybe you shouldn't teach in the first place.

   1. tgv · 1790412566 · focus · HN ↗

      Without grading, students don't learn. It's as simple as that.

      1. thow88737363667 · 1790415236 · focus · HN ↗

         That outlook is way too bleak. As a person who has taught at universities for fifteen years and has run lots of open educational formats and infrastructure with other public institutions and citizen groups, my experience is the opposite. If anything, the desire to learn and curiosity are among the strongest common traits humans possess. Grades are just a tool and a proxy that most people working in formalized educational settings have to work with at specific points.

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