andrewducker | Interesting Links for 03-07-2018

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Ouch.

I mean, on the one hand, *part* of learning is indeed learning to produce an essay which looks superficially good: learning to use basically correct grammar, to produce an essay of the right length, etc, is a skill that people do need, and not everyone manages. And you can easily imagine that if you automate that sort of thing, it's a lot quicker for a human to mark. Coding has taught me that: tools that automatically force everyone to indent properly leave more time for reviewing actual code.

But on the other hand, openly saying, "lets spend fifteen years learning to write a particular essay style, completely disregarding any notion of whether you have any level of understanding whatsoever" just feels awful. No wonder people don't like school :( No wonder people read news articles that say things authoritatively that are just actual nonsense :(

I guess another way of looking at it is, "schools are so underfunded teachers already don't have time to mark 'properly', we're just acknowledging it". But even then -- even if you have extremely limited teacher time to spend, surely you could do somewhat better? :(

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Interesting Links for 03-07-2018

More States Opting to 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays by Computer (even though cheating is easy)