Alas, I fear the number of zombie students is still growing—and at an accelerated pace
But let’s give tech companies some credit. They have improved one skill among current students—cheating, which has now reached epic proportions.
The situation is so extreme that more than 40% of students were caught cheating recently—and it happened in an ethics class!
The professor caught them in a simple way. He simply uploaded a copy of his final exam on to the web, but with wrong answers.
“Most of these answers were not just wrong, but obviously wrong to anyone who had paid attention in class,” he adds. But “40 out of 96 students looked at and used the planted final for at least a critical mass of questions.”
Another teacher shares a similar lament: “I used to teach students. Now I catch ChatGPT cheats.”
I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.
