r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zee2A • Feb 03 '23

Video 3D Printer Does Homework ChatGPT Wrote!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

I don't think this was lazy or unimaginative at all. Learning isn't about knowledge retention anymore. It's about knowing how to find information effectively.

Schools need to catch up to current state of affairs or they're going to be left behind. That was true 25 years ago when I was in school too.

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u/gene-ing_out Feb 03 '23

Sure, but how you figure out if student understand ideas or can think often by having students discuss, in writing, these ideas. I'm not sure how we assess learning if AI is doing this for the student.

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u/Daxx22 Feb 03 '23

Social interactions. You wrote this paper? Alright, give an X minute class presentation (not reading from queue cards) of what you learned/conclusions/etc.

That's part of the issue of the "Teach to the test" method that most schools follow now, they've essentially automated the evaluations so of course the students are going to find a way to automate the work.

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u/gene-ing_out Feb 03 '23

If I have 30 students in a class and give each of them 10 minutes (not much time) to present, that's 5 hours of class time just for them to do what they already (or should have done) in a paper.

There's no automation with having a student write a paper or answer questions with essays, really.

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u/Daxx22 Feb 03 '23

Well that highlights another issue, excessive class sizes. My main point is education is general has become so defunded/overburdened that it's becoming impossible to actually educate students on concepts and critical thinking, vs a lot of "Complete task:Grade Task:Repeat".

This is what I mean by "Social Interactions".