I must be one of those rare crazy professors who loves grading student papers. The thought that anyone would even consider offloading such important work to an A.I. is appalling to me. Yes, assessing student work and providing clear, useful, thoughtful feedback on drafts and final versions of essays takes a lot of time, but that's part of what I got paid to do for 25 years as a philosophy professor.
It sounds like a form of Goodhart’s Law has set in.
Original process: Teachers craft assignments that facilitate student learning of a lesson, and students complete those assignments to learn the lesson.
New process: Teachers craft prompts that minimize students’ use of AI to complete an assignment, while students prompt AI to minimize teachers’ ability to determine that the students have used AI.
It’s no longer about teaching/learning the subject being assigned per se, but the ability to design prompts for AI.
I must be one of those rare crazy professors who loves grading student papers. The thought that anyone would even consider offloading such important work to an A.I. is appalling to me. Yes, assessing student work and providing clear, useful, thoughtful feedback on drafts and final versions of essays takes a lot of time, but that's part of what I got paid to do for 25 years as a philosophy professor.
It sounds like a form of Goodhart’s Law has set in.
Original process: Teachers craft assignments that facilitate student learning of a lesson, and students complete those assignments to learn the lesson.
New process: Teachers craft prompts that minimize students’ use of AI to complete an assignment, while students prompt AI to minimize teachers’ ability to determine that the students have used AI.
It’s no longer about teaching/learning the subject being assigned per se, but the ability to design prompts for AI.