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If a system can be screwed up merely by giving teachers and students access to useful tools, maybe it wasn't that great in the first place.
by amadeuspagel 1y ago
If a system can be screwed up merely by giving teachers and students access to useful tools, maybe it wasn't that great in the first place.
- dogma1138 1y agoThat’s a gross oversimplification. The fact that you can cheat in a game does not mean the game itself is flawed. If you use tools to effectively ghost write your assignments you are not learning.
- vrighter 1y agoYou can't expect to learn to be a painter by simply buying pictures of artwork. You need to try (and fail, over and over) to actually paint.
- palmotea 1y ago> If a system can be screwed up merely by giving teachers and students access to useful tools, maybe it wasn't that great in the first place. That's a pretty stupid take. A "useful tool" is only useful in a context, and we really only want that tool used to to good. It's not good to have tool used to do bad things. If a school system can be screwed up merely by giving all students free access to guns, maybe is wasn't that great in the first place, amirite? Essays (for instance) are a means to an end of developing young minds (which is a good thing) by getting them to engage with something. If your "useful tool" makes bypassing that engagement (cheating) simple and easy, those young minds will float through less developed. There's a lot of hype about LLM tutors, but I don't see that solving much. They'll end up tutoring LLM students, so the real student can invest more effort in playing some addictive video game. And then that decayed state will become the new normal, and some idiot will declare it's the best because that's what he knows.