Time for some “life lessons.”With a child in college and a spouse who’s a professor, I have front-row access to the unfolding debacle that is “higher education in the age of AI.”These days, students routinely submit even “personal reflection” papers that are AI generated. (And routinely appear surprised when caught.)Read a paper longer than 10 pages? Not likely—even at elite schools. Toss that sucker into an AI tool and read a quick summary instead. It’s more efficient!So the University of Illinois story that has been running around social media for the last week (and which then bubbled up into The New York Times yesterday) caught my attention as an almost perfect encapsulation of the current higher ed experience… and how frustrating it can be for everyone involved.Data Science Discovery is an introductory course taught by statistics professor Karle Flanagan and the gloriously named computer scientist Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, whose website features a logo that says, “Keep Nerding Out.”
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The kids are so screwed...
It's just a horrible situation. First, super lazy college students using AI, then hard working college students who didn't use AI getting caught in the crossfire. And there's no sure-fire way to tell.
My policy is that as a professor, I reserve the right to assess your learning through oral assessment at any time, and if you can't reproduce the level of understanding you showed on your assignments, you may get penalized. The problem is that this solution isn't scalable for the number of students we have.
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