I don't think #LLM are a crisis for teaching. I do think they will eventually force us to be frank about the difference between:
a) asking students to internalize/memorize received knowledge, and
b) asking them to do new, independent thinking, likely based on new archival / experimental evidence
Currently we can do (a) but pretend (b), because 5-page essays look and feel independent even when they're really rehearsing received ideas. Automating them will take away that dodge.
@TedUnderwood The crisis is precisely no longer being able to use ⒜ as a proxy for ⒝. I agree that it’s an opportunity, but in many contexts there is little reflection on the goals of teaching and testing, which makes it very difficult to come up with alternatives to essays.
@TedUnderwood Like, literally ;-)
@true_mxp We agree about this, I think. I'm saying "not a crisis" as a rhetorical opener ... but yeah, once you realize how self-deceived we are, it is in practice a crisis.