“I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus”
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> One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all.
@baldur Given how much most employers treat a college degree as a mere gatekeeping checkbox to tick I can't really blame them for wanting to invest as little effort as possible... I am seriously disappointed at the lack of creativity on display though; They seem to half-ass half-assing things...
@lpwaterhouse @baldur I was thinking exactly this. With all the discourse around 'cheating' (also prior to ChatGPT), remarkably few people ever seem to ask what's driving cheating in the first place, and whether that might hint at a deeper problem with how education is treated...
If you require people to go through 'education' that they have no reason or motivation to go through, it's really not surprising that they look for the shortest path to meeting that requirement. What might education look like if it were a voluntary, student-governed experience instead? Would there be any reason left for people to cheat?
It would look like libraries.
We should replace school with libraries.
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@cy @lpwaterhouse @baldur I think it's going to depend on how you define 'libraries' - philosophically, I agree that that's probably what it would look like.
But most libraries today do not have on-call expert instructors for a wide range of topics that can assist you with the thing you're trying to learn! And that would probably be needed to be a good alternative to schools.
But if people don't have all their time and energy stolen by those plotting against their education, then they'll educate themselves just fine. And yes that does mean people refusing to study Trigonometry, until they have a reason to actually use it, but I think that's worth the resilience and resistance to tyranny people gain, once we're not training our children to bow before oppression.
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