[ergocoder]

> I have a friend who is a new TA at a university in California. They’ve had to report several students, every semester, for basically pasting their assignments into ChatGPT.

We've solved this problem before.

You have 2 separate segments:

1. Lessons that forbid AI 2. Lessons that embrace AI

This doesn't seem that difficult to solve. You handle it like how you handle calculators and digital dictionaries in universities.

Moving forward, people who know fundamentals and AI will be more productive. The universities should just teach both.

[parpfish]

this is tough because we've spent years building everything in education to be mediated by computers and technology, and now we're realizing that maybe we went a little overboard and over-fit to "lets do everything on computers".

it was easy to force kids to learn multiplication tables in their head when there were in-person tests and pencil-and-paper worksheets. if everything happens through a computer interface... the calculator is right there. how do you convince them that it's important to learn to not use it?

if we want to enforce non-ai lessons, i think we need to make sure we embrace more old-school methods like oral exams and essays being written in blue books.