[beej71]

As a CS instructor, I've been thinking along these lines. Thought experiment: how do you teach your class if students have continuous and instant access to every possible exam and project question and answer?

And it leads to some interesting places. How do you motivate students to do pick up a shovel and do the work that they need to do in order to learn the material? And if they're picking up a shovel and doing the work, what's left to lecture about? We assess the work, motivate the student to fix it? How do we motivate the student who has the entirety of the world's knowledge at their fingertips? They're not skilled enough to do work that AI can't do, and AI has all the answers. And yet they have to do the work in order to learn the thing.

How to motivate the student in such circumstances, in my mind, has to move beyond fear of the exam.

And it forces to question what skills we want the students to have coming out of school.

I'm actually pretty excited about it all. And ChatGPT is a great learning tool when used correctly. (Even with 4o I get it to offer contradictory answers, though, but this is all part of educating the student on how to get the most out of the tool.)

"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something because they want to do it." --Eisenhower