It’s foolish for her teacher is foolish to try prevent this. AI is here, and

Sign up, and CougarBoard will remember which categories you want to view. Sign up

Report problem with this ad

Dec 4, 2024
8:36:03am

garyfan Truly Addicted User

It’s foolish for her teacher is foolish to try prevent this. AI is here, and

efforts to resist are like trying to hold back a tidal wave with your bare hands.

IMO, it’s important to teach good writing, but that can and should be done in the context of AI being a useful tool (the same way a calculator is a useful tool), rather than a forbidden fruit.

Report problem with this ad

garyfan

Bio page: garyfan
Joined: Sep 19, 2013
Last login: Dec 4, 2024
Total posts: 40,046 (4,132 FO)

Report problem with this ad

Messages

Author

Time

Daughter got caught turning in an AI generated paper for English. Me, trying to

rcbyufan

8:25am

Now don’t do that Jenny cuz you won’t learn run along now …. I’d have one of the

franklyvulgar

8:27am

There is nothing wrong with punishing your children for things that you did or might have done when you were younger.

Sea Chicken

8:29am

Yeah. It went well. She's a good kid and will turn out fine I think.

rcbyufan

8:31am

Me: Now let me show how to change the paper enough to get around it.

CougarTwins

8:30am

That was my first thought (not spoken out loud)

rcbyufan

8:31am

I guess I understand schools cracking down on this but companies are doing it…

Jay_L

8:31am

The assignment is there for the student to demonstrate evidence of learning

8:35am

BYU wont let you use calculators which is silly

Longseason

8:38am

Completely disagree. You don't really learn until you do it without a calculator

SafetyFirst

8:47am

Professionally, is it more important to learn it or to get the right answer?

Longseason

8:56am

Depends. It's true enough that lots of companies simply need people who,

Ghost of Peanut

9:06am

Being able to tell that the calculator gave you the wrong answer is the skill

rcbyufan

9:18am

This opens up a different debate- college is not set up as a professional prep

Ezy

10:05am

Yet companies use AI a ton now, so it's kind of hypocritical

RockyBalboa

9:18am

As someone that reviews a lot of college freshman essays, AI has made them so

LeGrandBleu

9:39am

It’s foolish for her teacher is foolish to try prevent this. AI is here, and

garyfan

8:36am

That would just mean that schools would stop teaching writing.

OrsoNero

8:36am

Doesn’t have to be that way at all. Schools still teach math in spite of

garyfan

8:38am

That's different than plugging a writing prompt into AI, though.

OrsoNero

8:46am

If the traditional writing assignments become useless in our new AI world,

garyfan

9:03am

This. AI is a tool. Use it.

Longseason

8:39am

Just switch up to the final assignment being handwritten in class without reference to the computer

9:00am

I think AI is most useful in writing the rough drafts, with humans coming in to

garyfan

9:07am

Which is fine. If they learned the content well enough to recreate it from 'scratch' with content notes-

9:17am

How did they know it was AI? They used AI to detect it. 🤷‍♂️

blueaussie

8:49am

There are tools

garyfan

8:51am

Yes tools that rely on AI technology to detect students using AI. No?

blueaussie

8:54am

Yes

garyfan

8:59am

It’s still fairly easy to recognize AI-written text, especially if the person is lazy and doesn’t give it any kind of

Mike Honcho

9:00am

Yup tends to be over explanatory in parts not necessary and very pedantic

franklyvulgar

9:03am

I say this as a former high school teacher. I think it is incredibly lazy for a

blueaussie

9:28am

Why is this a problem? While there are rules against using AI to write your

Tricky

9:09am

You make a fair point, but in my interactions with my kids and teachers on this

blueaussie

9:37am

Report problem with this ad

Posting on CougarBoard

In order to post, you will need to either sign up or log in.

Report problem with this ad