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How University Students Use Claude

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395 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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karpour ◴[09 Apr 25 16:30 UTC] No.43633999[source]▶
My take: While AI tools can help with learning, the vast majority of students use it to avoid learning
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1. janalsncm ◴[09 Apr 25 17:36 UTC] No.43634892[source]▶
I agree with you, but I hope schools also take the opportunity to reflect on what they teach and how. I used to think I hated writing, but it turns out I just hated English class. (I got a STEM degree because I hated English class so much, so maybe I have my high school English teacher to thank for it.)

Torturing students with five paragraph essays, which is what “learning” looks like for most American kids, is not that great and isn’t actually teaching critical thinking which is most valuable. I don’t know any other form of writing that is like that.

Reading “themes” into books that your teacher is convinced are there. Looking for 3 quotes to support your thesis (which must come in the intro paragraph, but not before the “hook” which must be exciting and grab the reader’s attention!).