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lostincalifornia

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5. It could be done before AI came into prominence. To evaluate someone's knowledge that is

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Thu Jun 25, 2026, 06:49 PM

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what tests and quizzes in the classroom without phones or electronic device access are used for.

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Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era [View all] Coventina Thursday OP

Back to blue books & pens. SheltieLover Thursday #1

This! ScoutHikerDad Thursday #6

Did you read about the 1 Cornell professor who had typewriters brought in for 1 class? SheltieLover Thursday #10

Long before AI, there were online services that offered to wnylib Thursday #13

analogy blaeckfoeoess Yesterday #27

My students must hand write submissions. mr715 Thursday #2

My wife is a professor Diraven Thursday #3

Those who lose to AI will be those that don't embrace it. Melon Thursday #4

This doesn't surprise me fujiyamasan Thursday #8

So it's AI doing the coding with human oversight sakabatou Thursday #19

Yes. They are still responsible for the outcome but don't have to do the labor of coding. Melon Thursday #21

Reminds me a little bit of Neuro-sama then sakabatou Yesterday #32

It could be done before AI came into prominence. To evaluate someone's knowledge that is lostincalifornia Thursday #5

I could easily see blue books coming back into the system again Torchlight Thursday #7

Blue books! senseandsensibility Thursday #9

Really...why? The reality is that the precise skills become less relevant Melon Thursday #11

AI is quickly destroying critical thinking in my students. Coventina Thursday #12

Progress isn't backward. Melon Thursday #15

So you are just going to ignore the studies that are showing AI is making people dumber? Coventina Thursday #16

Are you saying we can put the apple back onto the tree? Melon Thursday #22

Well, they won't be learning it in my classes, and if they use it and are caught they will fail. Coventina Yesterday #23

These are all false equivalancies GenThePerservering Yesterday #24

In some ways it is like the printing press fujiyamasan 13 hrs ago #33

I think it's really a question about the appropriate use of AI in the classroom fujiyamasan Yesterday #26

Maybe this civilization needs to die before we humans can truly progress. hunter Thursday #20

Are you making changes to your curriculum or pedagogy to address this? fujiyamasan Thursday #17

I am moving to assignments that are not homework based. Coventina Thursday #18

I think we can safely say there are more than two possibilities Torchlight Yesterday #28

One issue though.... Mossfern Yesterday #31

AI technology is the new reality of modern life..... anciano Thursday #14

ai worship has certainly brought gullibility to the fore. GenThePerservering Yesterday #25

Here's a good read: Ron Green Yesterday #29

A new age of learned helplessness. n/t flvegan Yesterday #30