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In reply to the discussion: This is what I'm dealing with: Assignment I gave to one of my classes..... [View all]
GenThePerservering
(3,284 posts)13. I actually recall that when I tutored back in the 70s
I was a 'peer tutor' which mean that I tutored fellow students maybe a year behind who were struggling in a subject which was my own major.
One individual- really nice guy, grade A student in high school, found himself struggling in Jesuit university - which at least then had a rigorous teaching style. After working with him I realized that he was yet another person who had memorized his way through high school but had never learned to really think. In class now, he was required to develop a theme and then argue it. TBH, I recall a lot of that from high school myself.
Looks like it's crept into college - perhaps because the value of being well educated has got so devalued.
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This is what I'm dealing with: Assignment I gave to one of my classes..... [View all]
Coventina
23 hrs ago
OP
They don't have to buy a report. All they have to do is use a free dumbing-down tool from one of
highplainsdem
22 hrs ago
#15
Teaching is challenging, and an existentially important profession. What the AI companies have done to it is
highplainsdem
21 hrs ago
#29
The AI companies have leaned very hard into promoting AI "democratizing" talent - letting people
highplainsdem
2 hrs ago
#65
But only if he has a multimillionaire father who is willing to bankroll all his failures! 🤣
ShazzieB
21 hrs ago
#33
and "I wasted my whole weekend studying when I could have been having a good time!"
erronis
22 hrs ago
#8
And "teaching to the test" where tests have become easier to grade - multiple choices, etc.
erronis
21 hrs ago
#21
and his definition of "go out of my way to find the research" is probably ask chatGPT. (n/t)
thesquanderer
22 hrs ago
#17
Since many students gravitate to AI's as their first source of information ...
SomewhereInTheMiddle
10 hrs ago
#59
Tell the student they can get five points of credit on the assignment...
littlemissmartypants
22 hrs ago
#9
When I was in Catechism class and I failed to pay attention I got a ruler across the hand.
Jacson6
22 hrs ago
#11
You didn't mention whether the student was male or female. I would guess it was a male.
flashman13
21 hrs ago
#31
Critical thinking isn't the focus of a K-12 education anymore, if it ever really was.
Jedi Guy
3 min ago
#76
The student's nose is probably superglued to their phone, so they missed class despite being there.
Vinca
20 hrs ago
#42
I've seen lots of articles and social media posts about many college kids being shocked if they're
highplainsdem
1 hr ago
#72
Maybe the only thing this student (and others?) may learn from you is the meaning of CONSEQUENCES!
ihaveaquestion
1 hr ago
#71