people aren't getting the picture about what students are leaning on chatgpt for while they or their families burn through or go in debt for half a million dollars
got gpt responses to short practical readings, gpt excuse emails for skipping. I'm not a babysitter, want to ruin your future, have fun
because I'm a game development instructor and my classes weren't a side topic they take under duress, but where they made games they want to make, were asked to do no more than the practical minimum of writing on their design and process they'd need to find real jobs in the field their degree is for
what are universities doing about it so glad you asked the administrators are mostly making deals partnering with openAI or Claude etc because the professional educators who understand education and actually work with all the students have essentially no say in what's going on
May 7, 2025 17:28“We try not to fail students here,” was the admin response I got when I flunked a student for plagiarism and he subsequently got expelled for academic misconduct (for not writing a single original word in his senior-level, writing-intensive final assignment). His final essay was incoherent gibberish
I’m not shy about naming and shaming, either. It was the criminal justice department at Rutgers, Newark. Fuck em
