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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. adrianN · 1790410963 · focus · HN ↗

      Teaching is imo mostly about techniques that battle laziness. Teaching intrinsically motivated intelligent students has always been trivial. All progress in education is about scaling it to work for people who only reluctantly engage with the material.

      1. cheesecakegood · 1790490249 · focus · HN ↗

         Right, and part of that is nurturing student interest and buy-in, because it can increase. Traditionally smart teaching and the right structure could result in some percentage of reluctant learners being drawn into good habits and better retention. I think the subtle part of the AI in education crisis is how it basically has smothered that "nurturing" in the cradle, right from the get-go, so it's a bit of a cold-start situation in many classes.

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