Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 weeks agoGPTs are fine, if you learn to disrespect their output and fix it before presenting it as your own.
Actually, taught that way, GPT may be a tool for teaching critical thinking - if the professors aren’t too lazy to mark down the garbage output.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Only if the first draft is the student’s own creation otherwise they will never learn how to analyze a work and construct the argument theu want to make beginning to end.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
A lot of people “have trouble getting started” - in all kinds of endeavors. Once you get them rolling, they can see the pattern and do it for themselves next time. If the AI glop gets lucky and copied decent argument from beginning to end (something I’ve seen it fail spectacularly at many times), then that can help jumpstart people who are stuck, but only if they can recognize when it’s just a bunch of glop.
Really, if would be better for them to read a bunch of samples for themselves (which is what the AI does) and hopefully they can get the pattern. What I think is a horrible approach is to sit in a lecture hall and listen to a little guy down front drone in a monotone about the theory of what you are supposed to do, then try to synthesize from the fragments of what you understood from that what is expected. Samples to work from are much more efficient.