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Solution:
Warn the students throughout the year "If you use AI all year for your schoolwork, you will fail the exams every month or two". Teach AI literacy, how it works, and the dangers of not learning the material and how it's a snowball effect. Teach the "why" it's important to use your brain to solve the problem, and state that they should be using their own words/math/etc. Students suspected of using AI should have a note sent to their parents early on to hopefully correct their path early.
Exams are paper and pencil only. No computers. No phones. No smart glasses. When students are getting an A on their homework and flunking their exams, it'll be pretty obvious. Even a student who has anxiety about exams can get a C.
Even before AI was a big thing, I really wish we had some kind of class, or at least an explanation from our teachers on the basics of how learning works. So much unnecessary drama could have been avoided if the kids had a better understanding of why their teachers were asking them to do things this way instead of just saying "do it this way because if not I'll give you a bad grade." Obviously younger kids aren't going to be equipped to handle all the neuroscience, but I'm sure there is some simplified explanation that could be given that would get the point across.
This was an extreme example of this, but it was emblematic of the general way my teachers handled students who didn't understand the point of the assignments or teaching methods: I forget which grade I was in, but in one of my math classes there was a day in class where I was solving the problems but not doing it exactly the way the teacher was teaching it. When he insisted, I asked why I had to do it that way if it works either way. He said something like "Because I have the big desk." Basically just an appeal to authority without any further explanation. "You're a dumb kid and I'm an adult, so do what I say."
That would require a number of teachers that actually understand or care about FoI which we don't have.
What is FOI in this context? The closet thing I found to something that makes sense would be Freedom of Information, but that doesn't seem quite right, or I'm not understanding the connection.
Fundamentals of Instruction.
Ah. Thanks!
Not every uni teaches stuff like how to study, fortunately one of them does and the lecture is on the Internet. I wish I had found this earlier. https://youtu.be/IlU-zDU6aQ0
That would be great if the system wasn't rewarded for passing students.
they went from failing students often, to starting with participation to barely passing in 2000s, to unable to fail students in HS now. remember referrals they were bad mark on a students record,.
Yeah it really needs to be on leadership to help implement these kinds of things at the state, local, and school level.
I wonder if it would be suitable to adjust people's grades each year on their final exam.
For example instead of having assignments worth 25%, attendance 10%, quizzes 20%, midterm 20%, and final 25%
Have it as assignments 75% and attendance as 25%
Then adjust all of that for by midterm and finals
Get 100% on your assignments due to chatgpt and show up to class every time despite not paying attention, if you get 50% on your quizzes, midterm, and final you get 50% overall, not 67.5%