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AI Cheating Is Getting Worse (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not entirely true. Practice is important, but homework actually has a negative impact on learning: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112969358305278574

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you actually referencing a mastodon post made by one individual claiming to be a lifelong teacher as substantiated evidence to support your claim?

I’m also a lifelong teacher, and I think homework has its place.

It allows teachers to assess a students progress and identify issues that individual might be struggling with.
Teacher can modify the curriculum to improve common shortcoming appearing in homework results, in other words, hw can help the teacher help the students.
HW allows more accurate grading, so you’re not just judged based on your tests, your attitude in class, and the teacher’s gut.
As I mentioned, it’s practice for the student. Sure I could do math accurately if I really thought about it, but getting lots of practice in means it takes less time and I don’t look foolish at some point when it matters.

That said, I almost never assign hw in my own classes unless students need more time with a project than I am able to provide. That said, some student are never happy when I give them a score based solely on how much (or how little) they actually participate in class vs poke about on their phones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Which is worse: bad citation or anecdotes with no citation?

AFAIK the actual research is somewhat unclear.

But my (former teacher) problems with "education" are a wider topic for another day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Was your citation not just another anecdote with no citation?