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Originally Posted by JohnN
My daughter is a university professor of microbiology. I asked her about AI and she said 11 of 47 students in her class this year used AI on their writing assignment.
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Writing is an act of thinking. Using AI for writing assignments is avoiding thinking, one of the hardest parts of learning. This professor gave these 11 students a second chance at the assignment without failing them and another opportunity to develop their ability of thinking. Good for her. (They did get a penalty for cheating.) And maybe these students learned from their experience of cheating on the professor's requirements.
In general, USA students are not taught how to think critically now. It starts in schools before university. Most schools largely teach students to take and pass exams.
But there is hope for giving students a real education. There is a small but growing movement trying to push students, parents, and schools back to giving students an education for critical thinking. It looks like a classical education that has been around for centuries but mostly fallen out of favor in the USA for multiple reasons.
For example:
Classic Learning Test (CLT) - Assessments for Grades 3-12 and
CLT in Florida | CLT