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You hinted to it but at what point are you basically giving individual oral exams to the entire class for every assignment? There are surveys where 80% of high school students self report using AI on assignments.

I guess we could go back to giving exams soviet Russia style where you get a couple of questions that you have to answer orally in front of the whole class and that’s your grade. Not fun…

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You don't need oral exams, you just need in-person. So a written test in the classroom, under exam conditions, would suffice.

In this particular resolution example, it would be quicker to ask the student some probing questions versus have them re-write (and potentially regurgitate) an essay.

My current idea for this is to have AI administer the 1:1 oral exam. I’m quite confident this would work through grade school at least.

For exams you’d need a proctored environment of some sort, say a row of conference booths so students can’t just bring notes.

You’d want to have some system for ephemeral recording so the teachers can do a risk-based audit and sample some %, eg one-two questions from each student.

Honestly for regular weekly assignments you might not even need the heavyweight proctoring and could maybe allow notes, since you can tell if someone knows what they are talking about in conversation , it’s impossible to crib-sheet your way to fluent conversational understanding.

These days a teacher cannot ever be with a student in a 1:1 situation. At least not in K-12.

We did this in Italy, but not in front of the whole class. It was pretty fun, it’s worth a try.

Sounds good! Why not?

Stress levels for introverts.

You’re gonna have to talk about your work to people that matter at some point in your life.

You can’t keep hiding behind being an introvert your whole life.

1. I'm not introvert :-)

2. Speaking about your work in front of 1-2-5 people is one thing, but being tested in front of an entire class (30 people?) is a totally different thing.

In high school English, someone (rotating order) had to give a 5-10 minute talk about something in front of the class every week/class. Seems like a pretty good idea in general.

It’s not that different from giving a presentation in front of your team to a stakeholder.

It’s not that different from speaking up in your neighborhood group.

Speaking in front of people and advocating for yourself is a core human skill. If you don’t practice it you’re setting yourself up for failure.

I would even say it has nothing to do with introverts and extroverts.

Who did Satoshi talk to?

Too expensive. Baumols cost disease has made teachers expensive in the US. There aren’t enough to do verbal exams

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