What is homework for in an age of AI?
This is one of the first things on AI I found really interesting. It forces us to look at the holes in our current tactics—AI, like the calculator did to math, reveals that the essays we ask students to write are about checking off boxes, not engaging with the task of writing, which is also a task of thinking and communicating.
Maybe the formulaic, three-point, five-paragraph essay was never actually a good assignment.
A teenager explains why he shouldn’t have to write homework essays anymore. Is there some way for adults to force teens to still do homework? Or to convince them they should want to?