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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

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222 points dougb5 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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djoldman ◴[04 Sep 25 21:36 UTC] No.45132499[source]▶
Unfortunately, this kind of story will continue to be a popular one in newspapers and magazines, garnering lots of clicks. It feeds into the "everything is different now" sort of desperate helplessness people seem primed to adopt with respect to AI sometimes.

Obviously the answer to testing and grading is to do it in the classroom. If a computer is required, it can't connect to the internet.

Caught with a cellphone, you fail the test. Caught twice you fail the class.

The non-story beatings will continue until morale and common sense improve.

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godelski ◴[04 Sep 25 21:53 UTC] No.45132650[source]▶
Are you suggesting kids spend longer times in school or suggesting kids spend less time on education?
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thedevilslawyer ◴[04 Sep 25 22:06 UTC] No.45132761[source]▶
Neither? it's quite clear they're suggesting improving assessments. This will lead to upstream learning not being gamed.
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godelski ◴[05 Sep 25 05:33 UTC] No.45135268[source]▶
So the option is to what, stop handing out homework? That would result in less education time. To clarify, I mean education time, not classroom time.
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lmm ◴[05 Sep 25 07:04 UTC] No.45135756[source]▶
Homework has never been shown to improve education. It gets given out because parents demand it.
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1. godelski ◴[05 Sep 25 08:33 UTC] No.45136312[source]▶
I'm going to need some serious citation here. Through my personal experience, homework and at home studying were critical to my education. I would not have made it through any of my degrees (B.S., M.S., PhD) by just attending lecture (PhD doesn't even have lectures!), despite this being sufficient for high school and early college. Though, that does not mean this was a good thing as it only means the education was insufficient.

So... citation needed