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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

end up with people who don’t recognize that 13+24=87 is incorrect

I had a telecom teacher who would either allow you to use a calculator, but you had to get everything right.
Or go without and you could get away with rougher estimates.

Doing stuff like decibels by hand isn't too bad if you can get away with a ballpark and it's a much more useful skill to develop than just punching numbers in a calculator.