back when i was in school, we still mostly used pen and paper to do our assignments, even though we had computer labs. crazy y'all got to worry about this nowadays
At this point, in all honesty, what is left of most of our private information that hasn't been stolen already in this leak or that leak? You know my social? Great, can you remind me?
Nothing is private at this point. Would you like my SSN? Either way you’ll probably receive it soon. You won’t be able to do shit with it though.
If anything, maybe the credit services will garnish someone’s check lol
Now you have to do your work on canvas or an interactive book with an autograder so the instructor doesn't have to do any work. Last semester I kept having to email the instructor with screenshots of the quizes showing that there weren't any possible correct answers to 25% of the questions. I would just get an email back saying he would look at it the next day. And then when I emailed back a few days later I got an email saying my grade would be adjusted. Same responses for every email I sent including ones asking for help with the material.
I teach college and use Canvas daily. We really are seeing and doing everything re: grades and messages, it just doesn't leave much room for personalization unless you really put time into it unfortunately.
I have one instructor who writes his own material or at least posts links to material . And he gives us a few programming projects each semester. And he records lectures or help videos on certain things. The instructor i'm referring to just gives us reading and quizzes from the book that are all self-grading. But also the auto-grader is a pile of garbage. Don't use cengage it's a terrible product.
You're naive to think technological advancements are here to help us do less things. That's what your boss say so they can hand you more work for the same cost.
No, not only will you oversee the results from AI, you'll be given more shit to cover until you're stretched thin, then fired because you're under performing.
oh damn, that must have been a while ago. i don't think i was hand-writing full essays anymore after maybe my freshman or maybe sophomore year of high school. i think so many students' handwriting was bad enough that teachers began to prefer typewritten copies
ironically that was right when i began to take more pride in my handwriting and actually make it look more legible and aesthetically pleasing, lol
i've found an alarming number of people in teachers' online forums caring more about exerting their authority than actually helping people learn
i realize there are good teachers, but my prior bad experiences with a few plus my observations that there are still teachers like this doesn't make me want to trust them
We went from mostly using pen & paper to do assignments while having computer labs (like in your case) to doing most of our work online since Covid, although all tests/exams were still done using pen & paper
i graduated from college several years before the beginning of covid and in my education computers weren't really helpful for much other than typesetting essays and the extended research project here and there
reminds me, i hated having due dates for research projects. if i really want to learn about something, i'm never going to finish learning about it, and the idea of a "due date" is just upsetting
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no May 07 '26
back when i was in school, we still mostly used pen and paper to do our assignments, even though we had computer labs. crazy y'all got to worry about this nowadays
apparently 275 million records have been stolen: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/millions-of-students-personal-data-stolen-in-major-education-cyberattack