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AI in exposing the flaws in "education"

2025-11-21 18:41:27.801026+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Good discussion of what it means to be teaching, and learning, in the age of AI: Will Teague — I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

I got that via this observation by Sean Purcell (he/him) @teamseaslug@hcommons.social

@jnl There's part of this essay that I hadn't thought about before, which is the ways college education punishes failure.

I've been one to lean on the argument that our students prize the degree and not the education. (That is what they are paying for in a lot of cases, and the universities are much more about saying what you can do with the degree and not how you'll, hopefully grow.)

But the other side is that the degree mill is built on tracking successes (through classes) and failing an assignment, a test, an entire course is HUGE. (Thousands of dollars, scholarships, admission into the school.) AI is a shortcut, but also sells itself as a way to avoid those potential failures.

We say in our classes, in our educational theory, in our anecdotes outside school, that we learn through failure, but any time I did a project that 'failed' I got my GPA dinged, and that impacted all of the other avenues that I had available to me.

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