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The article's title is a rhetorical question with answer that ends in: "Motivation and self-discipline are valuable commodities, and an in-person instructor can
by pcurve 4y ago
The article's title is a rhetorical question with answer that ends in: "Motivation and self-discipline are valuable commodities, and an in-person instructor can help provide them."
- miguelazo 4y agoAmong other things. Like being able to clarify things immediately and succinctly instead of having to open yet another tab that turns into a rabbit hole distraction.
- entropy2048 4y agoIn many cases, I'd agree. However, with anything that remotely smells like it's close to the technology field? Any clarification you might get, is probably 10 years out of date. At best.
- miguelazo 4y agoWhat's actually important to learn in the technology field wouldn't matter if it were 10 years behind. We're talking about higher education-- the fundamentals, not learning the syntax of some particular framework that will no longer be used in 10 years, if 5.
- jncraton 4y agoI believe clarifying things immediately and succinctly may be why the author mentioned LLMs. They have the potential to provide this sort of feedback. They are obviously imperfect, but for the sort of questions that many undergraduates get stuck on (code won't compile due to a missing semicolon, etc) they are already a great asset.
- etempleton 4y agoExactly. Graduating college proves a level of diligence more so than intelligence or knowledge. This is undervalued. Many of the smartest coworkers I have worked with were the worst colleagues. Intelligence and knowledge is only so valuable if hard work and interpersonal skills are absent.