RE: ChatGPT Ate Their Homework!
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Teaching does need to evolve to the current environment, if it doesn't it will become less meaningful and help less students. I've always felt the brighter students should be in a separate class so they don't become bored and lose interest. That happened to me through most of high school in subjects without advanced placement. The regular students should be in an environment that helps them learn, whether it be in classroom doing the work vs at home. Plus simple tricks like you mentioned should be taught from day one.
AI will be a universal way to cheat going forward, and soon they may be able to dumb it down in writing skills to sound like a dumb college kid. The world is changing and everyone needs to keep up!
Yeah, I support separating class by academic ability. Unfortunately that is even less of a thing in Japan than it is in the US.
I think eventually the solution will probably involve more personalized education using AI, but we won't get there for awhile, and teachers and schools who fight against all AI will only make this change more painful.
Sad part is most of the teacher's over the age of 40 will fight it tooth and nail. Some of the younger one's may too fearing it will possibly cause them to lose their jobs.
The AP classes here in the US really saved me in high school. Anything that was really slow I didn't do as well because I was bored beyond belief. I really should have been offered the option to test out with a GED one or two years early, but back then they refused to offer that choice. Good old 1980's!
The sad truth is most teachers are just not very good. This isn't to say they don't have the ability to be good teachers, but the low pay, micromanagers with a list of requirements, and monster parents have beaten out all ambition and at this point they are just phoning it in, waiting for retirement, rarely even bothering to update decades old lesson plans. I agree they will fight—not because they disagree with using AI as a tool but just because it is change and change will require them to actually do some work.
The system really is ripe for change. I'm surprised this old Prussian school system has lasted as long as it has. I hope AI is the catalyst to really revolutionize education.