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Our first-year engineering students have been exposed to higher education for a good two weeks now, and as is typical for each "virgin" semester, casualties are slowly but surely starting to appear. This year, however, as a teacher, something irritated me more than usual: the quickness of giving up.
Focus has been a worsening problem for decades now, thanks to the invention of smartphones and social media, and even though I tell myself not to pay too much attention to the slackers on the last few rows that do nothing but scroll on their phone, I always return home disappointed and annoyed. This time even more so, thanks to the speed at which students whip up answers by just asking ChatGPT to do their Python exercise.
Focus has been a worsening problem for decades now, thanks to the invention of smartphones and social media, and even though I tell myself not to pay too much attention to the slackers on the last few rows that do nothing but scroll on their phone, I always return home disappointed and annoyed. This time even more so, thanks to the speed at which students whip up answers by just asking ChatGPT to do their Python exercise[^st].
[^st]: Before it starts raining complaints: no, this isn't a generalization, it never is, and yes, there are still ample prime examples of good achievers, but that's beside the point here: please bear with me.
When I confront them with this, they quipped: "how else should I learn this?" Perhaps by trying the exercise yourself? Perhaps by getting used to failing, asking for help, studying the given material, and retrying? It dawned to me that this phenomena isn't exactly new: high school students regularly dare to outsource (and even pay for) their work, which is easy to do through the internet. It can be as simple as asking the Stack Overflow community to solve it for you.