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@CoreyWriting Just like torn jeans

Wealthy parents are going to start sending their kids to "low tech" private schools while working class kids are going to be handed tablets filled with ed tech and AI. Writing by hand and turning in paper assignments will become the new upper-class cultural symbol.

@JeffAnderson_ Don’t understand the point. Find out if the distribution of the students matches family income quartiles as well. You will find it to a bigger disseminator. Few people dare to talk about socioeconomic discrimination

Yale School of Medicine Has a total of 553 students across All four classes. Total Black students: 44. That’s ~10 per class. Total Asian students: 157. That’s ~40 per class. There are nearly as many Asian students PER CLASS as there are Black students in the entire school. Black: 14% of America. Only 7% of Yale Med Asian: 7% of America. 28% of Yale Med. Who exactly is getting discriminated against here ? aamc.org/media/6131/dow…

@jayvanbavel No idea why people are getting twisted into a pretzel. I call it the #9090remedy. 90% of the courses can have in-class proctored exams for 90% of the grade. Problem solved. No need to make AI the villain. Read my blog. blog.autarkaw.com/2026/05/11/sto…

I don't think people fully realize how badly AI has damaged higher education. This is not an easy problem to fix. There are two major issues that foster cheating with AI: 1) Friction: It used to be hard to cheat. You had to find another student to copy. Now you just drop a short prompt (or the PDF of your assignment) into a chatbot and you get a complete response. This problem is not going away, it will only get worse as AI answers get harder and harder to detect 2) Social norms: Too many students are using this technology. As more and more students use AI to cut corners, it becomes easier and easier for other students to rationalize it. At some point, you reach a tipping point where cheating (rather than following the rules) feels normative. Unless you can fix both of these issues, cheating will get worse. Much worse. The problem is that the lack of friction creates worse social norms, which then makes it easier for others to justify cheating. Even students who don't want to cheat will eventually feel that it's necessary to keep up with other students. Like many professors I know, Princeton is trying to do something to protect the integrity of their educational experience. If they don't, employers will quickly figure it out and the value of a Princeton degree will eventually approximate the value of a degree from a diploma mill. I have had to change my exams and class assignments to reflect this new reality.

@KhoaVuUmn Trying to get tenure in Harvard was his first mistake. Most probably did not make the mid tenure review, that is bad! Working for the Vatican is highly lucrative, just the properties they hold must be worth a trillion!

Must have been a rough tenure track.

@MeatyClaus @sfmcguire79 And test scores made overall grades go down in my class even when 40% of grade was for out of class work - online quizzes, computation and design projects.

@sfmcguire79 From what I’ve seen looks like assignment scores are up and test scores are down

“Professors teaching AI-exposed classes gave out about 30% more A’s and fewer A-minus and B-plus grades.” AI keeps exposing and exacerbating already existing issues in higher education.

@sfmcguire79 Stop chasing AI hype and start fixing how we assess learning instead. Just wrote about why better assessments beat AI policing. Give in-class exams and push some content online. Simple solutions seldom welcome in HE blog.autarkaw.com/2026/05/11/sto… #9090remedy @EngineeringUSF

@sfmcguire79 The threat of credentialing becoming laughable did it. Top schools do not consider teaching a priority. They don’t need to as students are top notch and self motivated. Temptation is a universal issue though.

AI, but also the lack of honor, of course.

@esaagar Many here getting excited. It was the removal of #NCLB. Blaming pandemic is not true as decline started in 2013. We can do better about screen use. It does not help if S is on TikTok while in class. Don’t need research for that.

It's the screens ban them. All of them. No smartphones, no chromebooks whatsoever. Paper homework only

@TheEXECUTlONER_ The logo bothers me. The frame can be taken off and thrown away.

This woman doesn’t want the car dealership’s logo on her car that she just bought from them. She takes a heat gun and removes the logo. I thought it was just me that it drives crazy but apparently not. If people are going to be driving around advertising for a dealership, shouldn’t the dealership pay you? 💯 Many said they won’t leave the dealership unless they remove it. Also, don’t want the dealership license player frame either. Does the car dealership logo bother you? Have you ever given it much thought? Or, do you think people like that are being ridiculous?

@QueenMab87 The pace!

I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?

@scientistswrite Who is desk-rejecting? Editors are too scared to do it as the submitting authors are also making a decision on their papers or proposals somewhere. Not desk-rejecting wastes the reviewer's time and tests their patience.

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@mtrlgrrrl @bethmcmurtrie @becksup Read full blog: Stop Chasing AI – Start Fixing Assessment blog.autarkaw.com/2026/05/11/sto…

@mtrlgrrrl Too much energy and time being spent on this wild chase. The #9090remedy is - 90% of courses can choose 90% of grades from in-class exams. Align objectives though. Assign HW, make submission optional and only give feedback! Simple solutions rejected @bethmcmurtrie @becksup

it's wild how much of planning an undergrad class now revolves solely around clever tricks to circumvent ai usage

@florida_grand And why should there be no taxes on tips, please explain me the capitalism!

Sign of the economy in Florida: My son, who has worked as a server at a restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg for five years, said it was “the busiest weekend ever” for Mother’s Day weekend. He typically clears at least $1,500 in tips in a weekend but he said he “made twice that.” Take that for what it’s worth, pun intended.

@stvystv @CasuallyGreg At high-end restaurants, even if you sit for 90 minutes at the table, the server earns twice as much as the median income. I don't get it - it is the server @ihop and @DennysDiner who is struggling and getting stiffed!

@CasuallyGreg So if they serve 10 tables in say a busy lunch hour, their pay for that hour is $102.13/hr?

“Pay our employees, because we won’t.”

@Proftubelight @CasuallyGreg There is some myth that servers will treat you badly if they got a fair wage. There are many services we receive where we get good service without tips. It is a messed up system. No taxes on tips is yet another mess - does not help low income servers.

@CasuallyGreg 💡 America normalized “pay our employees for us” through tipping culture 😭 Meanwhile Japan considers tipping awkward because good service is already expected 💀💡

@johnhboyer Ask engineering students to use equation editor in a report! Should be taught though!

The number of college students I have taught who don't know how to insert a footnote in Word and Google Docs is astounding. It's gotta be between 50% to 75% of them.

@southparkcpa @MetamateDaz Do it. Based on his "so called" contribution, this person was making over the SS limit all his working life of 50 years and then he is not getting the maximum SS pays per month. Dont need CC Math 101 for that - just common sense!

@numericalguy @MetamateDaz The math is fine…VERY BASIC finance 101 at a community college can prove it

Most people don't realize but Americans only pay Social Security taxes on income under $184,500. What that means is anyone that makes over that stops paying Social Security at $184,501. If the Social Security earnings cap were removed they would have enough money for universal health care.

@NatPurser Ya, errands are better than being stuck in 3 commute hours in traffic!

talking to young people who wish their jobs were fully remote makes me feel like i’m losing my mind. you’re at the point in life where you could most benefit from in-person relationship and knowledge building … but … you wanna get some errands done,

@southparkcpa @MetamateDaz 260K would be the contribution and 520K if you include employer or if self-employed. It is an insurance, not a pension system. The benefit would be $3900 per month. So the math is not jiving!

@MetamateDaz Government is burning your money.