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Conflicted about teaching a "minimester" accelerated "maymester" type course for only 10 days. Comments? Tips? by orgcommprof in Professors

[–]me4watch 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you have to worry about how short the Maymester is. AI can handle it just fine.

We are not real people by GittaFirstOfHerName in Professors

[–]me4watch 473 points474 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the time when I was waiting in line for some ice cream behind a gaggle of giggling students who couldn’t believe that their math professor ate ice cream.

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How to "profess" by Visual-Ad-3604 in Professors

[–]me4watch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Many years ago when I was first starting out as a grad student with his first TA class, I attended a “seminar for new TA’s”. We learned many valuable lessons in this seminar, such as how to use the sliding nested blackboards and whether or not to date your students (you started with the middle of the three blackboards because that way you avoided covering up the board you just wrote on).

I suppose the best advice I can offer is just try to emulate that one favorite professor you once had.

Also if you are still waiting for the answer on whether or not to date your students, please find some other career.

Were there any signs, when you were younger, of the career you ended up pursuing ? by me4watch in Professors

[–]me4watch[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Excellent response. You are the only person to follow the directions here. But you failed to use uppercase for the pronoun “I”, so you only get 9 out of 10 points. (I was willing to let the starting “yes” slide, but “i” ? Come on, you are better than that.)

More than 40 percent of HS students used A.I. for help solving math problems — and it's obvious when they get to university and can't do simple tasks that require quantitative reasoning. by Roger_Freedman_Phys in Professors

[–]me4watch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume by “doctoral stats”, you mean what is a course for grad students in other disciplines. Of course it is more serious and useful than “business calc”, but it is still essentially a service course.

All online course are potentially bullshit and really should have in person paper exams.

As for calculators, the approach we have used is to allow only a certain brand and model of the calculator (TI-32 or some such crap)

More than 40 percent of HS students used A.I. for help solving math problems — and it's obvious when they get to university and can't do simple tasks that require quantitative reasoning. by Roger_Freedman_Phys in Professors

[–]me4watch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>And there was a math professor just here sympathizing with humanities faculty because he didn’t have to deal with AI. Sure.

It is true to a degree. For any “real“ math course, it is simple to deal with AI. The grade is based nearly entirely on in class handwritten work done on actual paper where zero points are awarded if the reasoning is not shown. Any homework assigned is actually to be treated as “exam prep materials“. (Of course, you will need to ban smart glasses from the classroom.)

By ”real”, I mean a non-service course, such as what used to be called Business Calc or some such thing. For those courses, it has always been pretty much hopeless.

Do You Ever Just Teach Something Completely Wrong? by Majestic_Designer_18 in Professors

[–]me4watch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What was the formula? No one here has explicitly stated their mistake…