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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9091123" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>I didn't say that it did? But it is definitely facing educators to reevaluate almost every aspect of teaching, from the standard theory of mind that more or less stems from the Enlightenment, to how we assess student progress and ability, to how we should be preparing students for the future. And it suggests other possibilities for how human minds do what they do, that we at least have to consider.</p><p></p><p>For example, the student composition. If you've been to school, you've written essays. In most jobs, you still write them though now they might be called a position paper, precis, review, etc. Previously, essays were highly regarded as a means of assessing student ability to synthesize their learning into an organized argument. They were thought to reflect a high level of educational attainment and reflectiveness - there's a reason the college admissions essay is such a staple.</p><p></p><p>I have assessed at least 20,000 student compositions in my thirty years of writing. LLMs like ChatGPT are already better at producing them than most human beings. That's not just me stating that; this has been proven through innumerable blind tests where experienced assessors mark LLM work alongside human work.</p><p></p><p>You might object that all this shows is that with a large enough data base, the LLMs can use their predictive algorithms to simply produce work that apes what humans do without understanding anything. Okay, but the practical result is still a good composition (in terms of language use, organization, and addressing the prescribed task). And as it turns out the vast majority of tasks that writers are employed to do involve a ton of repetition. Many of these jobs have already been automated, and that trend will continue. Because the truth is: most <em>human</em> writing is repetitive and doesn't involve deep insight. In fact, maybe a lot of what we have been teaching students for centuries has been about repetition rather than creative problem solving.</p><p></p><p>This is forcing educators to confront some severe limitations in what we do. In particular, it means that our focus on assessing product, such as the composition, has to change so that we figure out how to better assess process. We need to do a much better job of teaching to individual human brains, rather than relying of assembly line modes of teaching, liked scripted curricula and standardized tests, sorting students into batches based on their birthdays, etc. We need to rethink what we do from the ground up.</p><p></p><p>It is frankly insulting when a poster (not you) blithely opines that the Jesuits solved this problem centuries ago. No, they did not. The Jesuits barely knew what they were doing; their educational practices were only good in comparison to the alternative, which was basically nothing. We have come a long, long way from them...and we are being shaken to the core by the implications of this technology. I am very bewildered by how many folks feel confident that they understand what is happening and where it is going. The only thing I am confident about is that my job is going to look vastly different in five years time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9091123, member: 7035894"] I didn't say that it did? But it is definitely facing educators to reevaluate almost every aspect of teaching, from the standard theory of mind that more or less stems from the Enlightenment, to how we assess student progress and ability, to how we should be preparing students for the future. And it suggests other possibilities for how human minds do what they do, that we at least have to consider. For example, the student composition. If you've been to school, you've written essays. In most jobs, you still write them though now they might be called a position paper, precis, review, etc. Previously, essays were highly regarded as a means of assessing student ability to synthesize their learning into an organized argument. They were thought to reflect a high level of educational attainment and reflectiveness - there's a reason the college admissions essay is such a staple. I have assessed at least 20,000 student compositions in my thirty years of writing. LLMs like ChatGPT are already better at producing them than most human beings. That's not just me stating that; this has been proven through innumerable blind tests where experienced assessors mark LLM work alongside human work. You might object that all this shows is that with a large enough data base, the LLMs can use their predictive algorithms to simply produce work that apes what humans do without understanding anything. Okay, but the practical result is still a good composition (in terms of language use, organization, and addressing the prescribed task). And as it turns out the vast majority of tasks that writers are employed to do involve a ton of repetition. Many of these jobs have already been automated, and that trend will continue. Because the truth is: most [I]human[/I] writing is repetitive and doesn't involve deep insight. In fact, maybe a lot of what we have been teaching students for centuries has been about repetition rather than creative problem solving. This is forcing educators to confront some severe limitations in what we do. In particular, it means that our focus on assessing product, such as the composition, has to change so that we figure out how to better assess process. We need to do a much better job of teaching to individual human brains, rather than relying of assembly line modes of teaching, liked scripted curricula and standardized tests, sorting students into batches based on their birthdays, etc. We need to rethink what we do from the ground up. It is frankly insulting when a poster (not you) blithely opines that the Jesuits solved this problem centuries ago. No, they did not. The Jesuits barely knew what they were doing; their educational practices were only good in comparison to the alternative, which was basically nothing. We have come a long, long way from them...and we are being shaken to the core by the implications of this technology. I am very bewildered by how many folks feel confident that they understand what is happening and where it is going. The only thing I am confident about is that my job is going to look vastly different in five years time. [/QUOTE]
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