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if 90% of jobs can be replaced by AI bullshit, why tf do we even need to work? Why shape society so you must do shitty non existent jobs to survive?

Indeed, it's not that LLM is totally uncorrelated to factual basis, it is correlated well enough for most educational fodder that is supremely well trodden and doesn't seek surprises. It's practice with backgrounds the teachers can actually already know and credibly provide feedback on. It's so well known that any teacher knows, so it's correlated with AI output that has been trained on verbatim prompts and essays that are on the exact same topic, and so the narrative correlated with the prompt is just very likely to also correlate to the facts of relevance.

Just like a pocket calculator can make short work of elementary school math. It's not that we expect those kids to do some crazy novel stuff that calculators can't do, it's just that they need to operate in a context to actually illustrate they have the foundational understanding.

your education in general, is not for the teacher, it's for you

Most teachers don’t understand that

When I am struggling with Language Arts and excelling at Math, the extra time spent on unmastered Language homework benefits me. The extra time spent on Math serves only to waste my time and distract me from the Language work that needs my central focus.

The intention of homework is to benefit the student. The reality is that most students would be best served by skipping the homework and getting some exercise instead.

In the gradebook, the unit test score should be the floor for all homework scores in that unit. Score a 95% on the test, and even if you turn in zero homework, a 95% should be recorded for each assignment. S

Turn in 95% on each and every homework assignment, but score a 65% on the test? You keep your 95% scores showing you put in the work, even though you clearly haven't mastered the material.

Turn in no homework, and score a 65% on the test? Every homework assignment is now a 65%.

With this system, doing the homework can only help you. Skipping the homework is risky, but allowable.

Being able to use exercise equipment with a forklift would be pretty cool tho

That sounds way more fun

I suspect a large part of the problem is that, at least in my experience, this is not at all explained to students and often the teachers themselves do it as "something that everybody does" rather than with the understanding that there is an underlying purposed that homework is meant to serve (which sould inform the when, what, how and how much of homework).

If see a similar kind of problem in my area (Software Development) all the time - people doing certain things because "they're good practices", "it's what you're supposed to do" or even "that's what everybody does" without at all understanding the underlying reasons for doing it (and, more importantly, when to do it, when not to do it and how best to do it), which is why for example nowadays you have countless of "Agile" teams that are doing wrong or unecessary (in their context) parts of it whilst not doing the parts that the should do just doing things they think they're supposed to do it but doing them incorrectly since they don't get what those things are supposed to achieve and how.

Mind you, some people are just lazy, so some students will just "optimize away" homework with whatever tools they have to do so, even when knowing the purpose of homework and when being given the most learning-enhancing homework possible.

same, they all love cheating, before AI they would mostly just copy paste eachother's work

and me the alone kid who actually wanted and cared about learning would be drown out in busy work to be done, get bad grades even though I did well in tests and exercises, simply because I failed to do the annoying boring homeowrk of writting an essay that we all know the teacher is not reading, that they just made thjs assigment to give students free grade points because they know that if they didn't half of the students would fail the class, they would go lenghts about how they were being nice by doing this, and yet screwing over me would never be mentioned, one of the few students that ever displayed any form of curiosity in class

It's too bad, now we'll have to replace them with speaking in front of the class without notes.

Yeah it's built to serve as practice and to leave you with the questions you need to ask the next day.

I get it. I hated homework in school and generally didn't do it. And a fair bit of it was busywork. But when I got to college I learned the hard way that if I didn't do my homework, I wouldn't really have the skills. It's easy to sit through classes daydreaming or even listening, and just not really understand how to do a thing.

Non scholae sed vitae discimus!

I tried it for my class, and the questions they come up with is boring, repetitive, and generic.

I feel very sorry for you that you need to endure that.

Would this be better than recycling the same 5yrs worth of material?

Most of my exams have been online with no proctoring... Hell most of them are meant to be open note I think. That or my class just does a final project or paper rather than an exam. I've only had a few in person on paper final exams, and one online proctored exam where you have to scan your surroundings before testing.

I hate AI so I'd never use that to cheat (plus that shit is obvious and often wrong anyway), I just look at my own notes because I wrote them for a fucking reason. But like most of my exams or papers could've been done with AI I guess. Or like someone said go to the bathroom with your phone, as I've never had to hand over my phone before an in-person exam.

Honestly highschool was more serious about devices when I took state tests/finals and the ACT, they either took it or it had to be in a bag completely turned off, and if you did take a bathroom break (which was HIGHLY discouraged and I think only available during certain times), you had to hand over your phone.