{"id":15663,"date":"2024-08-26T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/ai-cheating-is-overwhelming-the-education-system-but-teachers-shouldnt-despair-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:37:49","slug":"ai-cheating-is-overwhelming-the-education-system-but-teachers-shouldnt-despair-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/ai-cheating-is-overwhelming-the-education-system-but-teachers-shouldnt-despair-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"AI cheating is overwhelming the education system \u2013 but teachers shouldn\u2019t despair | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the emphasis from product to process <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s getting close to the beginning of term. Parents are starting to fret about lunch packs, school uniforms and schoolbooks. School leavers who have university places are wondering what freshers\u2019 week will be like. And some university professors, especially in the humanities, will be apprehensively pondering how to deal with students who are already more adept users of large language models (LLMs) than they are.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re right to be concerned. As Ian Bogost, a professor of film and media <em>and<\/em> computer science at Washington University in St Louis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/08\/another-year-ai-college-cheating\/679502\/\">puts it<\/a>: \u201cIf the first year of AI college ended in a feeling of dismay, the situation has now devolved into absurdism. Teachers struggle to continue teaching even as they wonder whether they are grading students or computers; in the meantime, an endless AI cheating and detection arms race plays out in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/aug\/24\/ai-cheating-chat-gpt-openai-writing-essays-school-university\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e32f8a0e9cd7ed09648a57372b70897131e7a8f8\/0_206_4896_2938\/master\/4896.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0a8deff18d54300f9da5ffa30243d424\" title=\"AI cheating is overwhelming the education system \u2013 but teachers shouldn\u2019t despair | John Naughton\" \/>With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the emphasis from product to process<br \/>\nIt\u2019s getting close to the beginning of term. Parents are starting to fret about lunch packs, school uniforms and schoolbooks. School leavers who have university places are wondering what freshers\u2019 week will be like. And some university professors, especially in the humanities, will be apprehensively pondering how to deal with students who are already more adept users of large language models (LLMs) than they are.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re right to be concerned. As Ian Bogost, a professor of film and media and computer science at Washington University in St Louis, puts it: \u201cIf the first year of AI college ended in a feeling of dismay, the situation has now devolved into absurdism. Teachers struggle to continue teaching even as they wonder whether they are grading students or computers; in the meantime, an endless AI cheating and detection arms race plays out in the background.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the emphasis from product to process It\u2019s getting close to the beginning of term. Parents are starting to fret about lunch packs, school uniforms and schoolbooks. School leavers who have university places are wondering what freshers\u2019 week will be like. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/ai-cheating-is-overwhelming-the-education-system-but-teachers-shouldnt-despair-john-naughton\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI cheating is overwhelming the education system \u2013 but teachers shouldn\u2019t despair | John Naughton<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}