Comment on Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds

Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The point of an undergraduate degree isn’t knowledge; knowledge is only the first level in Bloom’s Taxonomy, a set of six levels of how people understand different topics.

  The problem with the use of AI in college is that students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice. Using AI in college is like using a machine to lift weights. Sure, the weights are moved, but it doesn’t benefit the person who needed the exercise.

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ignoring that Bloom’s Taxonomy is outdated and disproven (not that it was ever based on empirical data)…

    students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice

    This hasn’t been true for a long time, ime; colleges have mostly been about laying foundations for years, ever since we moved to a gen-ed system that disfavored any kind of specialized learning at the cost of any usable skills (and since defunding and prison-ifying high schools made even gen-ed baselines not happen in practice). They’ve been having to make up for what kids aren’t getting in high school, but that also means that by the time they leave with an undergrad they have almost no experience of applying their knowledge to real-world-repevant problems.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, but part of it is because students complained, the current ranking of universities don’t include quality of undergraduate education, and the public didn’t really understand what college was for when providing funding with strings attached.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hmm, depending on whose opinion you listen to, education systems have always been built around workforce productivity:

  RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can argue that primary and secondary school was about workforce productivity, but college was designed for leadership training.

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well… the first colleges were established to train clergy, because reading and writing were rare skills at the time, and there was a demand for trained clergy who worked as clerks, accountants and record keepers for nobles who could not themselves read or write, which I think just circles back to the workforce productivity thing.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.

        And the collegiate system wasn’t based on Confucian teaching styles.

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• SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why had we been doing all this gaining of knowledge in college all this time?

  So someone with the wealth and power to act on that knowledge can use it to fuck over mankind for more wealth and power.

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