Teacher calls out students for using AI to answer simple fill-in-the-blank questions during guided lecture: 'It’s just…dystopian at this point'

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• Students using AI on fill-in-the-blank guided notes that tell them what slide the answers are on in the PowerPoint. In order.

  
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• As the child of an educator and as someone who has also worked in the field of education before, I still believe in the promise and power of tangible, in-person learning between humans. Sure, AI can help provide students with step-by-step instructions regarding how to answer a certain math problem or what a specific amendment means, but teachers add something special that no robot could ever provide. 

  They know how to push, encourage, challenge, and nurture students to improve their performance in the classroom. They know how instill values that can help shape their perspectives on the world in ways that authority figures in their lives cannot. An automated system cannot fully replace the true value of a teacher, and yet, the kids in this professor's classroom seemed to rely more on a useless AI product than their own instructor's guidance.

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• As the professor mentions, albeit with a frustrated outlook, he already went out of his way in his lecture notes to make the answers to his fill-in-the-blank questions discoverable and accessible. So why would his students open a separate AI program, input the questions, attach the same PowerPoint to find an answer for them that is literally already on the page?

  Our guess? These students have become so heavily reliant on automated systems to tell them what to do that they cannot trust their own intuition, even when the questions that are being asked of them are objectively simple. Here's hoping that this teacher's tirade inspired them to gain their own confidence! Unfortunately, we are doubtful that it will work…

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