CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@shriramk @csgordon @lindsey @jeremysiek @krismicinski right so to be clear on these things, the doom part is because the actions require not so trivial changes in how we do things. Within UK academia we are under lots of pressures, with not a lot of time, and not the same power and influence as 'full chairs' do in the states.

More so,

1. open book assignments do not exclude the use of GenAI, they can embrace it, and you can guard against or incorporate its use. Such assignments, in my experience are harder to design, and require training on how to do well.

2. Exam conditions are also important as we want students to not rely on GenAI, and to ensure they have the fundamentals down.

The argument with GenAI is must be how our forefathers thought about pocket calculators...and their forefathers thought about slide rules, and so on.

@csgordon @lindsey @jeremysiek @krismicinski There are two routes I have considered:

1. learn how to write more open book take home assignments;
2. get students to do programming coursework in the lab in exam conditions

Either way, we are doomed.

@csgordon @lindsey @jeremysiek @krismicinski I know it doesn’t help much, but I ask my students to produce a short report along side the technical submission.

The idea being you can eyeball the differences between written report and code submission. Identify where more interrogation isrequired. I know genai could produce these reports but every little helps.

Submission canaries, for want of a better phrase.