You give exams in person, in class, on blue books, no phones. This part isn't hard. Instructors have been doing it for generations. It's only in the post COVID era that some have moved to having exams take home and on Canvas or similar platforms. This is great for instructors -- less work! but I am not convinced it actually helps students.

The part that is more difficult is take-home work, and I think the solution is that instead of being something that you turn in for credit, it needs to move to being more of a chance to practice for in-person exams.

What about essays? I've taught classes where students had to write essays in class, in person. On paper, with a pen (this may no longer be allowed on many campuses because of access and perceived fairness reasons, which IMO is a shame, but it is what it is). I think the traditional assignment of "write a 15 page paper on XYZ" is probably done. Instead students will have to prepare to write an essay in class by reading the source material (books, papers, etc) and converse with AIs that are hopefully not hallucinating, to get an understanding of the material and then come to class and be prepared to write about it.

It's a new world, but one we can adapt to.

Assignments, sure. But if tests/exams are proctored in-person with pen and paper, the students may quickly pivot to traditional learning methods if they want to pass their courses.

Requiring them to write it in longhand at least removes the instant gratification. I think that will work for some students.

It would be fun trying to draw all those emojis in longhand. You could probably do the bullet points as tiny manicules.

Oh how I hated having to write in longhand throughout my schooling. It was always so slow and painful no matter what I tried in terms of pens or techniques. Typing is much faster and more fluent. In the real world no one writes longhand any more: it's all keyboards, swiping, and dictation.

I dunno think outside the box.

One option… They can do homework just test them every week in class. Homework doesn’t count for grade anymore. But test questions based upon homework.

Another… kids do reading at home in textbook, then work together in class to finish. Adjust hours accordingly.

There’s a very interesting problem space here though, to “disrupt” education by going back in time and applying a modern spin on education.

In-person tests and workshops, including oral exams.

Like we'd been doing for literally hundreds of years.

It would actually be interesting to see what people do attempting to transcribe AI generated material to paper. At the very least it's another layer of learning in writing it out.

Engineering at my EU uni, homework and coursework were at most a tiny part of the total grade, and never enough on their own to pass. If they were relatively bigger projects, you'll pass an interview or similar review after delivering it. This all were just nudges study and to check ourselves and they were seen as a "gift" of the Bologne Process (restructuring/standardizing of unis in the EU).

The only thing that mattered were the exams, be it pen and paper or coding/electronics labs, in person and proctored. No matter how much slop I could have access to back in the day I would have failed the same subjects I did.

I thought it was widely agreed that most homework was literal busywork

Do it on the classroom or it doesn't count

Funnily enough, it's homework that is supposed to teach the ability to do hard and boring mental work for long periods. There's not enough time or peace to do that in class. And if you don't learn how to work hard, you don't learn how to learn. A lot of people learn that the hard way by flying through the easy school years and then hitting a hard wall when university level assignments can't be just winged without hard studying.

(Or at least they used to.)