Lasciare agli studenti Cert l’autorizzazione a utilizzare l’intelligenza artificiale nei progetti di ricerca
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/12/05/leaving-cert-students-to-be-let-use-artificial-intelligence-for-research-projects/
di Enough-Rock
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The absolute naivety of everyone involved in the 40% projects in every subject is breathtaking.
“Jack McGinn, president of the Irish Second Level Students’ Union, said the guidelines simply stated that AI tools must be referenced and there was no question that students could generate entire projects entirely using the technology.
“You can’t just copy and paste a project, it doesn’t work like that,” he said.”
Yeah, the guidelines say you shouldn’t get it to generate your project but when it’s worth 40% of your LC grade, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
We need a national conversation about these 40% additional components for every subject. For starters, teachers are all for them, where they make sense. Language oral, aurals, musical practicals, woodwork, art portfolio etc.
But of the projects currently in (say write an Economics project on some topic), I can tell you that students are:
1) paying other students to do their project.
2) paying grinds to do their project.
3) getting their parents to do their project.
4) getting their older siblings to do their project. (It’s now a serious disadvantage to being the eldest child in a family).
5) Getting AI to do their project.
And if you know everyone else is cheating, you’re more likely to do it yourself to level the playing field. If I were trying to force honest kids to cheat, I couldn’t come up with a better system than this.
And rather than level the playing field, it absolutely benefits the better off as they have access to people who can do the project for them. They also have access to better AI.
There’s a national scandal happening and it’s about to be extended. But no-one is talking about it. I would love for an investigative journalist to sign up for the Leaving and submit projects they didn’t do. I guarantee you they would get through without detection.
To be fair. A lot of uses for “AI” tools is as a glorified search engine. It comes out to how the students use it
And people wonder, why IQ levels are falling in the 21st century
I still think the way the leaving cert was in the past was fine.
Have 7 exams and 2 orals.
A simple solution to this would be to have students “defend” their project.
Like you have to do with a thesis.
So the project is worth 25% of the 40% and the other 75% comes from their 30 minute defence of it.
Learning how to use AI correctly and responsibly will be an essential skill in the not to distant future so I can see the logic behind this. I also understand the concerns.
I also agree with project based assessment as it more accurately reflects a real world scenario and helps students gain research skills.
One solution to the concerns might be to mark the project 40% and exam 60% separately. If you fail to get a pass mark in either component you fail the subject. This would mean that a student who cheats on the project would not be able to coast through the exam and pass the subject.
Not the perfect solution but one idea.
It is a tool for use. The real grading should be an oral presentation & questioning of the project to test understanding. This was true before the advent of AI