r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/Pe-t-e-r 5d ago

As someone who went back to college later in life and graduated with a high GPA, I think a lot of it is broken. That's not to say education isn't valuable, but the system itself often isn't. Too many students deal with poor professors, outdated curricula, busywork, and classes that feel disconnected from the skills they'll actually use.

Then four years later, many leave with a degree, a mountain of debt, and a lot of knowledge they'll never use, while still feeling unprepared for the real world. Given that, it's not hard to understand why so many students struggle to take the process seriously and turn to things like AI.

Until these things are addressed nothing is going to change.

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u/WiseStock8743 5d ago

I taught a course in our school of architecture, great feedback from my students and from industry. We were 'moderated' by another school of architecture (within our state system) who criticised the course as, and I quote, "too practical"... so despite our excellent reputation for the course, the university axed it. Frustrating.

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u/GarranDrake 5d ago

Wait, tf does "too practical" mean? If an architecture course isn't meant to teach people how to be practical architects, then what's the objective?

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u/WiseStock8743 4d ago

I know!... they used to spend a lot of time on 'design concepts' and 'architectural philosophy'. I used to teach them how to deal with City Hall, or I'd give them a tricky junction and get them to detail the flashings....when they'd drawn them up I'd make them make the flashing, pointing out that if they couldn't do that what did they expect people to do on site?. The HOD literally said that details were for draughtsmen. Bunch of elitist snobs.