There are a million reasons to quit the government schools.
I suppose ChatGPT is one of them.
In my English composition class, you wrote in class. Of course we didn’t have cell phones or AI, but writing under the watchful gaze of the instructor prevented any plagiarism. Home assignments were a different story.
“hard to prove”
Please go to the university website and download Keystroke Recorder to the PC you will be typing papers on.
Hmmmm.
Why are we continuing to indulge students whose first language is not English? That is a timeworn and outdated excuse in this era! Generations of immigrants from all over the world went through the same challenges and eventually learned and mastered English in the United States and other English speaking countries. It is time we stop lowering expectations and insist on higher standards.
The students are not sophisticated enough to use AI as a tool. They just use it to cheat. In my day I had to go to the library, read, research, check the footnotes and read those footnote sources too. AI can speed that up too. But just to say “Write me a book report on Huckleberry Finn” is no good. Oh wait I forgot. That book has been “banned”.
Dear Student:
I think you used an AI program to generate your paper. Please take the device you created your paper on to Dave DiskDriveChecker in the Computer Science Department.
Collegiate systems like Turn It In score papers on a plagiarism score. If AI was creating the paper it would probably score too high to be accepted.
Oral exams will be the way to go.
Step two, however, is where that will fail them. A week or so later, I would give everyone in the class a test. The test would be three essay question, asking each student to expound upon a particular point in their report, asking very pointed question and expecting very thorough and thoughtful question that could only be answered if the student has a good grasp on the subject material and is able to provide a competent and thoughtful response.
If the student just used ChatGPT to phone in the report, step two would catch them out. If they fail the test in step two, then I know the student doesn't have a clue at all what they're talking about or any grasp of their subject material, and thus will receive zero for the whole thing.
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Dear ChatGPT, how do I give this paper an F?
AI in education will create more clueless, unprepared fools than we have now.
WUT, no one has come up with a AI proggie that can tell that another AI did the writing?
Good luck in your retirement. Hope all goes well.
In less than 100 years we’ve gone from teaching Latin in grade school to teaching remedial English in colleges and it’ll only get worse.
Just make the students hand write the assignment in class. No computer, no I-Pad, no spell check just pen and paper.
I imagen the results would be comical and unreadable.
Inform the students up front that if they can’t reason and write for themselves, and prefer to rely on AI, that any future employer will also discover they have no need to hire them, in preference for AI.
I recall taking exams in a “Blue Book.” These compositions had to be performed on-site during the exam.
To make this worse, a student can ask ChatGPT to write at a certain reading level - and to deliberately introduce grammatical errors.
E.g.
Prompt:
“Briefly describe, what are the basics of how an internal combustion engine works? Please write at a university reading level.”
Result:
“An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a type of heat engine that generates mechanical power by burning fuel inside the engine’s cylinders. The basic operation of an internal combustion engine involves four key stages, often referred to as the four-stroke cycle: intake, compression, power, and exhaust.
Intake Stroke: During this phase, the intake valve opens, and a mixture of air and fuel (in gasoline engines) or just air (in diesel engines) is drawn into the cylinder as the piston moves downward, increasing the cylinder’s volume.
Compression Stroke: After the intake valve closes, the piston moves upward, compressing the air-fuel mixture. This compression increases the temperature and pressure inside the cylinder, making the mixture more reactive. In a diesel engine, only air is compressed, and fuel is injected at the end of the compression stroke.
Power Stroke (Combustion): Once the air-fuel mixture is fully compressed, a spark plug (in gasoline engines) or the heat from compression (in diesel engines) ignites the mixture. This combustion generates a rapid expansion of gases, forcing the piston downward and creating mechanical work that drives the crankshaft.
Exhaust Stroke: Finally, the exhaust valve opens, and the piston moves upward again, expelling the burned gases from the cylinder to prepare for the next intake stroke.
These four strokes repeat continuously, converting the chemical energy in the fuel into mechanical energy, which powers the vehicle’s wheels. This cycle happens thousands of times per minute in a running engine, producing the motion necessary to propel a car or other machinery.”
New Prompt:
“ok, now repeat - but write at a 6th grade level with some grammar errors.”
Result:
“An internal combustion engine works by burning fuel inside it to make power. It has four main steps that happen over and over:
Intake: The engine pulls in air and fuel when the piston goes down.
Compression: The piston moves up, squishing the air and fuel mixture together so it’s ready to burn.
Power: A spark makes the fuel explode, which pushes the piston down hard and makes the engine move.
Exhaust: The piston goes back up, pushing out the leftover gases from the explosion.
These steps keep repeating fast, turning fuel into energy that makes the vehicle go.”