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Old 05-16-2025, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by spinner1001 View Post
In general, university students are not prohibited from using AI—-just for certain assignments a professor specifies, which is part of the learning process. Universities are places of learning.

Too many people have misinterpreted all of this as universities are preventing students from using AI for anything. They are not.

I am an Adjunct Professor at a local college. I can tell that many of my students use AI.

I have each student write about themselves and what they expect to learn in my classes during the first week of classes.

I teach online, so I never meet them face to face, but I do read their first assignments and I find that they write several levels above their initial writing during assignments.

I can often see that it is not in their voice or with their given vocabulary.

The issue is, how do you prove any of it.

There is a new paradigm being consider with AI. It is not unlike the use of a calculator in a math class when we were younger. Does the calculator act as a cheat or an enhancer.

For non-mathematical and non-science students, there has been argument that calculators provide marginal students a way to navigate mathematical exercises and produce an acceptable result.

I don’t have an opinion, yet, on the use of AI. Is it the modern calculator or is it just a quick cheat? Like I said, I’m still evaluating….