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It didn't catch students who used AI. It caught students who didn't proof read their work after AI drafted it.
At least using AI but proofreading and fixing AI's mistakes uses your human brain to some degree. If they must use AI I'd rather they be smart enough to comprehend what it puts out and do at least some critical thinking of their own.
This isn't fair. Madagascar is 592,800 square kilometres. You shouldn't discriminate against prompt engineers in their studies before they've even had a chance to take those future-skills into the workforce. In 2024, Madagascar was estimated to have 32m residents. The professor should be ashamed.
By the way: Cheating was always possible by the privileged...
If you get a grade for you essay and have intelligent people in your family, why wouldn't you ask them?
But at this point, everyone can do it.
Homework is dead.
My computer uses a dark mode theme so that white colored font would have stood out to me.
I mean sure if you bothered to read it and not just ctrl-a ctrl-c ctrl-v.
If I were a professor in this day and age, every exam would have an oral component. If it's a class that has a large group of people, then I'd have my TA's run oral exams with small groups separately.
Oral isn't necessary and can overwhelm even very smart and knowledgeable students.
Just require all work is turned in handwritten. Tests are also done handwritten.
That's it. It's impossible to not absorb the stupidity of AI if you at least have to handwrite the answer.
It's impossible to copy/paste an answer into a test if it's handwritten.
The only thing stopping this is that teachers are used to the convenience of computer submitted work, remote learning, and disability workarounds.
This is something thats kinda impossible in a class that requires technology. A solution one of my professors came up with was having frequent handwritten tests worth less points.
Programming on a handwritten test is nothing new, but he also made us use gdb to debug a program written in assembly on paper.. which did work better than I thought it would.
I'm old enough that I took my Computer Science AP test in PASCAL in pencil on paper.
You can absolutely handwrite tests in any subject.
You can also provide workstations with no internet access for programming if you need an IDE/Compiler/etc.
Nah, exams in proctored classroom with bluebooks. That's the way to go.
This is so dumb. Even kids know that Madagascar orange bicycle whispers to the ceiling.
