grew up in a poor area, mom was a teacher where we lived through ‘no child left behind’, having gone to a rich kid college and seen what the other side learns like it’s pretty eye opening
that’s kinda my point, there was a time in math where approach did say something about you at the further edges which are much more standardized and route now
math in real application is much less objective than common thought would place it
outsourcing with clear intent and final control of the work saying what you intended (directly anyway) seems perfectly fine
your argument on ai is pretty much exactly the same thing my now 80+ math prof had for not using calculators or computers
sadly yea, i’m not happy about it but pretending education is above it all is doing no one any favors
i’d love if we had free education and a culture valuing learning for the joy of it in the us but we can’t even manage to agree feeding starving kids is important
and we just shat all over skilled nurses and the like as non-professional
which is funny because reality makes that idea complete bullshit
leadership doesn't want professionals, it wants low paid worker drones and ‘good enough’ ai
10% of your students might go on to be skilled enough to demand a job that respects their abilities, the rest are gonna be employed by tech illiterate boomers (lord these guys don’t want to retire) and will likely be dealing with being forced to use ai
thankfully i can’t use ai in my work so it'll be decades before it is even a concern for me directly but i have multiple friends dealing with this issue now
they are intelligent, well educated, had top grades, their boss is some nepo baby with grand ideas of being the next elon
I’m not going to stop using a calculator or spreadsheets, we already use spell checkers and text editors, matlab and wolfram alpha will do some rather complicated math almost entirely for you (you still have to set it up)
the arts are just facing the reality now (i acknowledge it is worse with how much ai will do for you)
i appreciate that this prof was coming from a place of teaching and not punishment
the only issue is the students turned off their brain and got lazy, removing grades sadly won’t stop this behavior
even before this update i’m slowly doing gwamm and I gw1 better than 2 but you’ll want to find people to play with