I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach.
The response from teachers and university professors was overwhelming. In my entire career, I’ve rarely gotten so many email responses to a single article, and I have never gotten so many thoughtful and comprehensive responses.
One thing is clear: teachers are not OK.
They describe trying to grade “hybrid essays half written by students and half written by robots,” trying to teach Spanish to kids who don’t know the meaning of the words they’re trying to teach them in English, and students who use AI in the middle of conversation. They describe spending hours grading papers that took their students seconds to generate: “I’ve been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher told me. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
A presentation component is the kind of class work I mentioned.
When you hire someone to do a job for you, do you want someone who will bust their ass all day and turns in mediocre work? O
Or do you want someone who does the job quickly, efficiently, competently?
When you’re working, do you want to bust your ass all day on something you are barely but technically qualified to perform? Or would you prefer to follow your passion?
Heavily weighting effort for effort’s sake favors the talentless over the talented, and does neither any favors.
I will counter that even for talented people it’s important to learn work ethic and how to study.
Even someone who is not naturally talented can learn topics by disciplined study, that too is an important skill in life.
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