Look at the second spine from the right - a feng shui ‘abundance’ book by someone with an extremely Anglo name.
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The whole platform. It’s the 21st century’s reinvention of trash tv, but worse. At least in the days of broadcast tv everyone watched the same shitty broadcast so led to a sense of a collective experience and the slop was made by tv production workers in a union.
And if they give vague non-answers like that you press them for details. What was so cool about it, what were some of the things you learnt, etc.
Any form of assessment has this issue regarding whichever medium happens to be employed. That why you generally need a few different types of assessments and not just one big one.
Yeah that’s the idea, to get them to show their own thoughts about it.
Yeah, you can’t give students a done-at-home essay as an assessment any longer, that’s just asking for AI slop and setting the students up for failure. Students can’t be trusted to avoid the temptation of AI, even the good ones from time to time. Over the past couple of years I’ve had to completely rethink every assessment I give. Essays are useless now. In-class tests and exams are ok, but students struggle with these more than they did a few years ago as they are less practiced at thinking through the written word. In-class presentations work pretty well, if you have a few restrictions. Keeping the time limits short so they stay focused and do not use vague and verbose AI writing helps, limiting the amount of text in slides or number or slides or even just banning slides entirely can also help to reduce slop. But most importantly, have a lengthy question and answer period at the end. This is where the students will actually demonstrate their own understanding as they need to actually know the material themselves to get through even very simple questions. If a student only used AI to write a presentation script even “what did you think about the book?” is a tough question for them. Usually one of the students will try using AI but will very visibly crash and burn in front of the whole class during the Q&A. The public shaming that results usually serves as a good warning to the rest.
Yes that sort of thing works well, but it takes a huge amount of extra time to actually do properly.
Heading, sentence, bullet points - this is AI slop.
Also the Washington Post actually pays its writers.
Easter Monday is part of the Easter holiday in many places.
Telling kids to wander off outside for the day used to be the norm, but that was largely ended by car traffic deaths and televised moral panics.
Doom is pretty retro for that setup. It could easily manage Half Life and Unreal, maybe even Quake 3.