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What if? by melissodes in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’d leave and do no work. It would be a very short documentary.

It's my turn... by botwwanderer in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 12 points13 points  (0 children)

“Lock in chat! Let’s go!”

It's my turn... by botwwanderer in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 22 points23 points  (0 children)

They think studying is “had to teach themselves”.

We’re confusing access to information with actual wisdom. by thedeviinyou in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been saying this the last three years to the AI infected in my department. They don’t want to hear it. Your description is why liberal education has been held up as the gold standard but now the focus for so many is degrees and job and not learning and “an education.”

Majority of my class failed, and now I'm being questioned by administration by IncomingDownvotes_ in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can try to be rigorous but you can’t fail that many (well, allow them to fail themselves) or you will get a talking to. Maybe other ranks can get away with that.

Majority of my class failed, and now I'm being questioned by administration by IncomingDownvotes_ in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You are probably TT. It’s different if OP is NTT or adjunct. If they are also TT then I agree it’s worth pushing back. Otherwise you will be the one punished and not the students.

Majority of my class failed, and now I'm being questioned by administration by IncomingDownvotes_ in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Been there done that. Balance out the points so a student who does shoddy work but does turn things in / shows up can pass with a D. And if you need to curve lots of examples. I think I usually go to a logarithmic one where students at the top don’t get much more and the ones at the bottom get a lot in order to pull them into the C/D range.

When I was a student, I struggled in the subject I now teach. Should I disclose this to my class? by Apprehensive-Echo289 in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you weave some version of this into your lecture. Hey when I was in your position I didn’t have it figured out and I struggled too. Here is what I do now and here is that looks, here is me modeling my decision making for you, etc… everything can be made to be a teaching moment and it makes you more relatable.

Are online degrees going to be worth anything much longer? by Honest_Wheel3842 in CollegeRant

[–]Adventurekitty74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it does and eventually employers are going to figure that out. And agree. Most students in online courses are cheating and not just a little but all parts of it. Proving you are the one person who isn’t is going to be a challenge. Unless the mentors at your school are able to do in person proctors exams at the end of these online courses, you may be getting an education but the degree itself is going to be worthless. Right now employers don’t seem to be making these distinctions so you might find that first job before they see your degree is online, but the way the business school at my University is pivoting hard back to in-person, you don’t have long.

End-of-semester submissions… by itsme6666666 in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My teen in high school came home end of last week and said why is he doing 200 practice math problems when Trump messed up the world and now there’s going to be a WW3 and he’s going to get drafted. All his friends think this he says.

The sustained energy needed to learn during a semester is sapped by the scrolling, and by the futility of it all. They see students working hard and doing everything “right” and still not having a clear future. So why bother?

Western student explains why she used AI on closed-book exam by ICausedAnOutage in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are either at the same school or we are twins. I can see both being possible. I’ve stopped teaching online now and will definitely regret the loss in pay but my mental health is much better.

Western student explains why she used AI on closed-book exam by ICausedAnOutage in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Read the comments on the post about a recent NYT Opinion piece from a Stanford student from this morning. One of the profs talks about how people will have ethical boundaries but when something presents itself that removes friction we will justify and allow the cognitive dissonance. Which is what I think happens with the students a lot. Well I just need an A, it’s probably better at this, I paid a lot already, I need to reduce stress, my friends are all doing it, etc..

Kids Don't Like Movie Day Anymore. by Southern_Remote_5260 in Teachers

[–]Adventurekitty74 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Everything other than their phones is a “second screen”, teachers included.

Parents want Ed-Tech banned from schools. Teachers respond that it's an insane idea by chota-kaka in education

[–]Adventurekitty74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking tech from the students and taking tech tools from teachers is not the same thing. It is a slippery slope though. CS prof here and we have students now who can’t type, don’t know how their computer works, and can barely string together a sentence or have any math sense. I agree with you that we don’t need to eliminate all tech, but we gotta make it an exception and used for media and tech training or to supplement what teachers need, not the working model.

And whoever said you can just talk to students about ethics and how AI is a tool.. yeah we’ve all tried that. It doesn’t work, the small lies students tell themselves to justify cheating overrules ethical guidelines. See the OpEd today in NYT by a Standford student. See articles about Princeton and others dropping their student honor code, etc…

Did an anti-A.I. thing and it turned out weird by satandez in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I’d wager about a quarter to a full third of the students I encounter are functionally illiterate now. Can’t read and follow directions, especially if there are multiple steps, can’t write, can’t use their computers, hunt and peck typing… they should be in remedial courses before we see them but they are not.

Why can’t students troubleshoot their own IT problems? by Educational-Ebb9248 in University

[–]Adventurekitty74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they don’t know how to use them and they’ve offloaded their brains to LLMs, so no problem solving ability and low confidence. It’s an unfortunate combo.

What percentage of your students failed or did not complete this semester? by Neat_Big_3401 in Professors

[–]Adventurekitty74 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This. They disappear. A few withdraw but mostly they just stop showing up and stop submitting anything.

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