I mean, on the one hand, giving some freemium AI the job of doing the work you paid tens of thousands of dollars to have the privilege of practicing seems like a giant waste on a variety of fronts.
But on the other, a lot of this is busy work anyway and only really intended to sift out students through attrition. So I don’t feel that bad when I hear a class with 200 students all getting told to churn out 40 pages of homework over the weekend so that some RAs can feed the homework back through a different AI to handle the grading for them.
As a PhD candidate who had to grade undergraduate papers, barely any of them know how to write and it’s painfully obvious when they try to cheat. In humanities a lot of my courses try to help the non-humanities students learn but not always successfully. It’s awesome when some students go from C’s to A’s based on my feedback. Makes the job worth while.
It’s awesome when some students go from C’s to A’s based on my feedback.
If you can get a really positive feedback loop going, where the student trusts the teacher and you can harmonize, that’s awesome. I’ve been in classes like that. I’ve also been in classes where the RA didn’t speak English and I had to argue trivial subjects straight from the textbook that got graded wrong.
There’s real quality education and there’s diploma mills and weed out classes, and you can find them two doors down from one another on some campuses.
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I mean, on the one hand, giving some freemium AI the job of doing the work you paid tens of thousands of dollars to have the privilege of practicing seems like a giant waste on a variety of fronts.
But on the other, a lot of this is busy work anyway and only really intended to sift out students through attrition. So I don’t feel that bad when I hear a class with 200 students all getting told to churn out 40 pages of homework over the weekend so that some RAs can feed the homework back through a different AI to handle the grading for them.
Reminds me of this comic
Voice to text -> AI expansion -> Character Encoding -> Character Decoding -> AI summarization -> Text to voice
We should’ve just stuck with voice calls.
As a PhD candidate who had to grade undergraduate papers, barely any of them know how to write and it’s painfully obvious when they try to cheat. In humanities a lot of my courses try to help the non-humanities students learn but not always successfully. It’s awesome when some students go from C’s to A’s based on my feedback. Makes the job worth while.
If you can get a really positive feedback loop going, where the student trusts the teacher and you can harmonize, that’s awesome. I’ve been in classes like that. I’ve also been in classes where the RA didn’t speak English and I had to argue trivial subjects straight from the textbook that got graded wrong.
There’s real quality education and there’s diploma mills and weed out classes, and you can find them two doors down from one another on some campuses.