It is not a secret that AI is wreaking havoc in the US education system. High school students and later years have easy access to apps such as chatgpt to answer any questions and even to write essays. And that implies that many will cheat to advance, allowing the algorithm to think about them and pass their exams. It is not surprising then that there are educators who prefer to return to the analog, in an effort to stop the anti -intellectual tide that is sweeping the nation.
The Wall Street Journal analyzed the issue and discovered that in the last year the sales of notebooks or blue books increased in which students write their tests or exams by hand. With data from a large number of public universities, the newspaper indicates that the purchases by lump of these notebooks have grown a lot since Chatgpt was launched in late 2022:
Blue Notebook sales in this school year increased by more than 30% at Texas A&M University, and almost 50% at the University of Florida. This unlikely growth was greater at the University of California, Berkeley. In the last two academic years, sales of them Blue Books in the Store for Students of the U. of California increased by 80%. The demand for blue notebooks increases because they help solve a problem that even existed.
Surely, those of us who are somewhat older adults remember that the notebook or blue book was something that we did not like in the pre-digital educational experience. I remember filling a good amount when I studied as a pre -university student, and I also remember that they were not easy. You were given little time to write an “analytical” essay in that notebook, to show your teacher that you “dominate” the subject. The pages, as I remember, were too small and the lines, large. The general experience was not fun at all.
A difficult fight against stupidization
Now, however, as AI is destroying the elite education system in the US, and lobotomizes the young leaders of tomorrow, perhaps those books or blue notebooks have been a little reformed to stop being the villains of the pre-one era and become heroes of our time poisoned by algorithms. More and more, it seems that they are the horsemen on horseback that the illiterate masses of Americans need. The Journal points out that Roaring Spring Paper Products, the paperwork company paper that produces most blue notebooks sold on campus, admits that the new era of the Ionically has been beneficial for its business.
However, although the return of blue books can be a successful step in the right direction, by the way they are not the panacea for the amount of evils caused by the use of AI by students. Philip D. Bunn, an attached professor of the Covenant College of Georgia, recently wrote on his blog that the traditional essay (which until the advent of Chatgpt was the great indicator of the student’s intellectual capacity and was difficult to plagiar unless you gave yourself the work of hiring a ghost writer) cannot be replaced by the essay in class. Bunn writes that “the process of writing an out of class cannot be replicated in a blue book exam, and something important is lost if we abandon traditional essays, whether analytical, argumentative, or research based.”
In fact, if the return of the paper and the pen are a sign that it promises, the educators will not have solved the problem of education in the US. A recent survey found that 89% of post-secundary students admitted to having used chatgpt to complete a task and the tools of AI designed to detect traps usually fail. Increasingly, young Americans seem to consider that their education is a risk video game that can overcome with algorithms. Perhaps more drastic measures are necessary (such as the formulation of new laws and regulations around there.
This article has been translated from Gizmoda US by Lucas Handley. Here you can find the original version.
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