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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[โ€“] Four_lights77@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This thinking just feels like moving in the wrong direction. As an elementary teacher, I know that by next year all my assessments need to be practical or interview based. LLMs are here to stay and the quicker we learn to work with them the better off students will be.

[โ€“] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And forget about having any sort of integrity or explaining to kids why it's important for them to know how to do shit themselves instead of being wholly dependent on corporate proprietary software whose accessibility can and will be manipulated to serve the ruling class on a whim ๐Ÿคฆ

[โ€“] jarfil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wholly dependent on corporate proprietary software

FLOSS would want a word with you.

The way we have allowed corporations to take over the internet as a whole is deeply problematic for those reasons too, I agree with you. And it's awful seeing what we've become.

[โ€“] SamC@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

Good luck doing one on one assessments in a uni course of 300+