Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by georgebcrawford on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:23PM
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> essay writing is no longer a viable form of assessment.
Of course it is. In person, with an unseen prompt/question. By hand or not doesn’t really matter as we can airgap or just monitor via software when in class.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by Someone1234 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:18PM
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> This is what terrifies me about the public school system.
This has nothing to do with Public School in particular. This is impacting private and university education too.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by theptip on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:29PM
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From what I have seen, (some) private schools are moving faster here; not to say private primary/secondary schools are unaffected, rather that it's worst in public schools.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by heddycrow on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:53PM
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Public Schools. I think terror there is built as a feature, not a bug. So be afraid.
But keep in mind, it may have always been this way. God bless those few cool teachers in each school who are aware of this and work to rescue a few who need it.
Love changes everything. Good teachers matter.
The schools simply don’t have the flexibility, agility, or frankly it seems motivation to adapt to what has already happened.
The ship has sailed; essay writing is no longer a viable form of assessment.
The idea to try to build a reliable AI detector is asinine, and fundamentally misunderstands how any of this works now, let alone the very obvious trend-lines.
Stop with the lazy half-baked solutions, get your head out of the sand, rethink the whole curriculum. This is an emergency, we needed to be urgently attending to this years ago.