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My hot take on the "should students use ChatGPT for homework" thing is that it's functionally the same question as "should students do their homework", and we need to be treating it as such.

When a teacher lectures a bunch of students on why it's important to do your homework, or a parent lectures their kids on how much it matters that they do their homework, genuinely nothing out of their mouths in that moment is useful to the kid. Oftentimes it isn't just not new information, it's also actively harmful to be hearing it again- especially in a context where it feels like a threat, a guilt trip, or a punishment.

What we should be doing is asking why the kid isn't doing their homework. Is it because the workload is overwhelming? Is it because they don't understand the assignment? Is it because they don't see enough value in doing the work?

The only thing that's really "new" about ChatGPT is that it makes it harder to tell when a student isn't doing their homework than if they copied someone, paid someone, or just didn't turn anything in.

And don't get me wrong, there are ethical questions worth talking about with students as well: the environmental impact, the question of plagiarism, the quality of the work... it's relevant, it's important, and kids should learn about it! Everyone should!

But like, if a student really doesn't want to- or can't- do the work, they won't. A lecture on ChatGPT won't make them do it; or if it does, it's because they're so terrified of the impact on their grade that they're doing it out of stress and fear. Which means their learning is going to be extremely minimal, if they gain anything from the assignment at all. More likely than not, the assignment is doing more harm than good at that point anyway.

Homework should be about a student's learning, because teaching should be about students, because school should be about students.

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