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Can we stop calling it "cheating"? It is normal and correct behavior to use all available legal resources at one's disposal to meet a goal. If you don't like it

• ahofmann 1y ago
  The main purpose of homework is that students uses their brain to repeat something, that they learned in school. If they don't use their brain, it doesn't stick. Using LLMs for homework, is the definition of cheating.
  • OutOfHere 1y ago
    That is pre-algorithm thinking, and that style of thinking has logically been obsolete since home computers came along in the 1980s. If the purpose of homework then is to get the students to devise a high-level algorithm for a text problem, then such homework shouldn't be tied to grades, and grades shouldn't be tied to a school year. It should be a continuous process for everyone at their custom pace. The simpler motivation then for them to practice, to do the homework by themselves, is to ultimately pass a test on-site at a testing center. If they pass, they move forward. If they fail, they remain stuck in place. With AI available, one doesn't need school to learn the basics. School is not free - people like me have paid taxes to fund its inefficiency.
    • lupusreal 1y ago
      > then such homework shouldn't be tied to grades It was never supposed to be, except that people got the idea that students need coercement to actually do the homework (so that they would actually learn and not tank the teacher's statistics) and grading it was the "have a hammer, problem looks like a nail" solution that teachers found.