Post #1931998

2026-05-03 08:32 UTC

After 40 years of moral panics from the adults about academic decline, we now have actual academic decline, but no-one is willing to panic about it, except the students: https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/18/high-school-ai-use-crisis/

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@dragomana@frikiverse.zone 2026-05-03 10:14

@nholzschuch This is serious.

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@GinevraCat@toot.community 2026-05-03 11:20

@nholzschuch @benjohn It's interesting to me that the AI use is highlighting that school systems in general are built to reward 'handing in stuff / ticking grade boxes' rather than actual learning. It's bothering the kids who believed in the system. It's also showing how little worth the students can see in the skills and content taught. Because OF COURSE they will take the 'easier' route. That's just an evolutionary smart strategy, in general.

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@stepheneb@ruby.social 2026-05-03 15:30

@nholzschuch “I used to be motivated to learn, and now there’s just really not much to be motivated for when you feel that school is more about just receiving a grade than learning, and there’s such an easy way for people to do that and cheat through that,” Pennington said. Students said that they work less hard now than they did earlier in high school. They reported that the rigor of some of their courses has dropped to meet students at their diminished level.

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@KentNavalesi@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 15:34

@nholzschuch IN. CLASS. HANDWRITTEN. ESSAYS.

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@WellsiteGeo@masto.ai 2026-05-03 15:53

@nholzschuch Some day some teacher is going to implement an anti-AI strategy called "handwritten work", in bound notebooks (printer-hostile), with crossings out and (corrected) spelling errors accepted as "proof of work" (a concept from bitcoin mining).

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@Fklv2@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 16:49

@nholzschuch the only thing that remains is the personal oral examination ; but it is expensive.

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