Post #1096043
2026-04-12 02:25 UTC
Replies (15)
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@wec@fv390.hs.bam.moe 2026-04-12 19:12
this is EXACTLY what I'm doing next semester... I've already had to fail several students for flat-out cheating using AI (and it was very embarrassing when they got clocked using it)
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@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-12 02:27
@rjblaskiewicz 🙌 👍 🙏
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@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al 2026-04-12 02:37
@rjblaskiewicz Using Ai in a class on critical thinking is like keying your own car.
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@forestfern@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 02:57
@rjblaskiewicz Yes, to typewriter labs and including in-class writing assignments.
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@NotADropbear@aus.social 2026-04-12 05:03
@rjblaskiewicz The other way to go would be: "Here is a question. Ask an AI to answer the question, and then write an essay about what it got right/wrong."
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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-12 05:39
@rjblaskiewicz if not typewriters, then perhaps copperplate. (Full disclosure: I'm learning copperplate)
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@lastofthem@mastodon-belgium.be 2026-04-12 06:42
@rjblaskiewicz typewriters? Why not hand written? I know teachers who do 100% of writing assignments in class, with pen & paper.
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@spanghero@ioc.exchange 2026-04-12 10:23
@rjblaskiewicz 1/3 amusing at the lack of even a basic understanding of thinking, critical or otherwiae and 2/3 quiet desperation that this may be our collective future as these people and thousands like them are turned loose on an unsuspecting public with ever more damaging tools that they consider aids to boost their own cleverness.
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@technothrasher@universeodon.com 2026-04-12 11:47
@rjblaskiewicz My son was recently told in his college freshman English class that he was probably "too advanced" for the class when he told the professor he'd rather *not* use AI to help write his papers, after it was suggested the whole class do so. He's definitely not "too advanced", he has a diagnosed learning disability with writing. Professor has just given up.
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@jimluther@techhub.social 2026-04-12 15:08
@rjblaskiewicz My English teacher from 1984 assumed using a computer to write papers was cheating - she thought it was writing papers for me. I explained it was just a writing tool like a typewriter that made editing easier. 42 years later and she is correct.
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social 2026-04-12 15:13
@rjblaskiewicz Most days, I spend an hour or two writing about something I'm trying to learn, because I find it the best way to make the long-term changes in my brain that constitute learning. IDK if your students know how unimportant grades are. I have never been asked for grades; at most for the degree certificate. I have never asked people I hired for grades. Maybe they will be asked for their first job when they don't have employment history. Or maybe to continue in academia. But having those skills matter. Most jobs have a probationary period and they won't keep the job if they don't have the skills. It seems AI™ usage is going to force major changes in our education systems. I hope we apply some critical thinking to the purposes of education from the points of view first of students, then of wider society, then of employers. @blogdiva
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@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 17:51
@rjblaskiewicz At the very least, using AI in a class on Critical Thinking is a great definition of irony. I was really hoping you were doing this as an exercise to show how bad AI was, and why you need to always check references.
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@isocat@tiggi.es 2026-04-12 19:03
@rjblaskiewicz Even-looking-is-cheating: >>[ *A P P R O V E D* ]<< But I'm not clear on what "I looked at the document history, and the whole paper appeared less than a minute after the document was created" means.
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@numodular@c.im 2026-04-12 19:15
@rjblaskiewicz Unfortunately, it's more and more backward, upside down, and inside out. Roots feed the branches. And if more are investing in artificial, instead of organic intelligence, then dumbed-down systems will implode all that much faster. Make #BehavioralScience #CoreEducation or #BackIntoCaves
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@xocolatli@lingo.lol 2026-04-13 05:17
@rjblaskiewicz "I caught one when it confidently made up a quote in an article I know better than anything I've ever written myself." This statement requires clarification and much more detail (if those aren't the same thing).