First time I missed hitting the publish button in a while. Turns out ‘coming back to myself’ is taking longer than it ought to. I spent today doing the last of the fantasy drafting, writing through a project, and really just sitting around. I have not touched Madden in almost a week. I haven’t touched the Xbox at all in that time. I still play quite a lot of pokemon, but that is quick and a needed distraction from the work. Ahh… the work. Today I sent the following announcement:
Multiple students have requested to change their moments. You are always welcome to change moments if you don’t feel the moment is sufficient to the task. Remember to be extremely specific in your moments when crafting this essay. Don’t rely on ChatGPT to craft moments that feel like you lived them. It isn’t very good at that, it will show in the essay, and you will fail, because you didn’t do what you were asked to do.
I am living in the ChatGPT world now. They realize as they move through the process that they need to start using it earlier in the process. The lazy just is too much for me to love. In fact, it isn’t even lazy. It is a complete disregard for the value of the work being done. Why do it if I can put the prompt in the chatgpt and it spits out an essay. Except it doesn’t. At least not a good one for this topic. It spits out a bit of fluff that is nondescript and falls under the category of easily replicated. Fortunately, I can just fail them for that. That makes my life easier too.
I wish students wanted to learn more. I wish knowledge actually held value beyond, “what will help me make money easy and fast.” Here people just want the basics they need to get into a job or get through this course so they can get to the next one and the next one untli they are done and have the credentials. The society is less fun than it once was in that sense. I wish it were better.