Axios.com did a report on cheating in schools with Chat GPT and other AI sources. It's getting to be a major problem for teachers at every level - even as far up the educational chain with Doctoral candidates, where they're focused on writing and defending their dissertation..
High schools and colleges are stuck in limbo: Use of generative AI to cut corners and cheat is rampant, but there’s no clear consensus on how to fight back.
Why it matters: AI is here to stay, forcing educators to adapt. That means sussing out when students are using it - and avoiding the temptation of overusing it themselves.
"I have to be a teacher and an AI detector at the same time," says Stephen Cicirelli, an English professor at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey. Any assignment "that you take home and have time to play around with, there's going to be doubt hanging over it."
Cicirelli captured the zeitgeist with a viral post on X about how one of his students got caught submitting an AI-written paper - and apologized with an email that also appeared to be written by ChatGPT.
"You're coming to me after to apologize and do the human thing and ask for grace," he says. "You're not even doing that yourself?"
By the numbers: Use is ubiquitous in college. A survey of college students taken in January 2023, just two months after ChatGPT's launch, found that some 90% had already used it on assignments. That's just making teachers and professors jobs that much harder, and the students, inevitably will be less educated than we need them to be.
How would you feel finding out that your brain surgeon got his/her degree by cheating like this? Juss' sayin'...
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There is no problem whatsoever as long as the 'students' that cheat promise to vote D.
ReplyDeleteHow would I feel about my surgeon using AI to become a doctor, well already med schools are teaching that diversity is the most important thing, so I ask you , which will do more harm to sick folks? Many doctors, and nurses will soon only help non whites.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember ever cheating and it was rare because there were consequences. But then we had mentors like John Wayne, Davy Crockett and the WWII generation to look up to.
ReplyDeleteActually, AI can aid in diagnosing illnesses and diseases, but I don't know if it as good as a doctor at eliciting descriptions of symptoms. It has already proven helpful in reading X-rays. Can it create anything truly original? I think, not yet. My kids will live in interesting times. It is good to be old.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the cheating is most common in written work. Maybe a return to Aristotelian oral exams where students are put on the spot answering questions and defending their position. Certainly wouldn’t solve the whole problem but might be a start. I wonder how many of todays students know who Aristotle was.
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