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How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

305 points · 288 comments · azhenley

  1. tarkin2 · · focus · HN ↗
    The easiest path is to allow students to cheat on homework and watch them fail in the non-coursework-based exam. Your classes, then, abandon to the un-motivated; with AI enlarging the educational gap.

    If you’re forced to attain a pass rate, and can’t watch so many fail, then the certificate becomes worthless in the workplace. Or just offer paid retakes and watch AI make you money.

    If you insist on persisting with coursework then a short but heavily-weighted oral part seems to be the only answer, something that will diminish teaching time as a downside, as the article and comments about the flipped classroom touched on.

    1. j45 · · focus · HN ↗
      The non-coursework based exam can also probably be gamed in the end.

      Students could just use the AI to teach/tutor the material to them instead, but the institutions are clutching the pearls too tightly.

      1. stonedivot · · focus · HN ↗
        Isn't that the point? To learn? If you're setting a goal that the students must pass, who cares if they get the information from the professor or they teach themselves?

        I don't think "learning the material by other means" is the exam being "gamed".

        1. adrianN · · focus · HN ↗
          Reminds me of this skit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM
          1. kalleboo · · focus · HN ↗
            I thought it was going to be the Monty Python sketch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C7fsxnzZF9w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=C7fsxnzZF9w
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