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AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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The existence of ai doesn't reduce the amount of busy work. It just means studenta can press buttons and pull levers rather than doing it by hand.
I'm not sure what constant quizing would accomplish. It sounds like its own busy work.
Even if there were the number of teachers to have 5 students per class, it has been my experience that a class under 10 leaves less room for discussion and difference of opinion
The point of regular quizzing is for the teacher to keep track of the student's progress. It's the entire point of quizzes!
Any classroom that includes quizzes in grading is already off on the wrong foot. They're doing it all wrong.
When it comes time to grade a student—via a test—the student should be so used to the questions—that they don't have to think much about it. They should already know the answers and have a strong command over the process used to answer them. If they're not ready the teacher should already know that because of regular quizzing.
This needs to happen in the classroom. Not at home. When students are outside of school they shouldn't be thinking about their schooling. They should be allowing their brains to rest and not stress over the possibility that their entire life trajectory could be made or broken based on how much time and effort they put in to homework or studying.
We're creating a society where no one spends time together because they didn't have time for that growing up!
I certainly agree that free time should be free of the obligations of school. So far as quizzes go, the determiner of busy work is always the student. Is taking daily quizzes meant to give the teacher feedback or to engage students in the process of learning? Students are not going to respond well to daily quizzes.
As far as grading is concerned, if the entirety of a student's grade is based off of an exam, you are creating a high stress high stakes scenario. Again, this isn't conducive to student success. It's a recipe for disengagement, depression, and cheating. Should you say, "well, students can't cheat if I proctor them." Perhaps, but you are creating a scenario where you are the jailor and they are a prisoner. I've beem told as much.
So what do you do instead? Daily practice. You lay out the material and give studenta guided exercises. Ask them probing questions. Get them to engage with one another. This is called Active Learning anf studies have shown it to be one of the most effective ways of learning. Second only to teaching.
Then yoh evaluate their work, grade it as one portion of the sum totak of their grade, (as opposed to a percentage of a percentage, and give personalized independent feedback. The feedback is for them. It is secondary that you get feedback as well.
Exams should be an assesment of the cumulative learning (called a Cummulative or Sumative Assesment. As opposed the classwork which is known as a Formative Assesment). Students shouldn't breeze through it. In fact it should be more difficult than what they've seen. As a culmination of what they have learned. They should be able to extend it into the unknown. And these exams are weighted accordingly.