Can We Make Teaching Great Again?

J. Henno, H. Jaakkola, J. Mäkelä

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Abstract

Several signs suggest that the Intellectual Ability of our students may be decreasing, some even say that students are becoming 'Dumb and Dumber': the IQ is steadily declining (the reverse Flynn effect), Internet is becoming a database of enormous blobs of 'dark knowledge' with dubious truth value what students do not understand, but what they still should use, under enormous pressure of advertising students lack critical thinking ability and can manage only the imaginary world behind their mobile/console/VR headset screens; problems appear already in pre-university education, results of the last PISA tests were in many European countries much worse than in previous years. There are umpteen explanations/reasons provided - the Covid (which has not gone anywhere), proliferation of generative AI systems, especially their most common representative - the chatGPT, which undercut truth in Internet and has made questionable some of the cornerstones of university education - tests. The Covid seems to be eternal, chatGPT is already 'out of bottle' and we have to live with it and understand its inner mechanics in order to use it the best way. In the following are analyzed current problems in IT education and discussed ideas for improving the situation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 47th ICT and Electronics Convention, MIPRO 2024 - Proceedings
EditorsSnjezana Babic, Zeljka Car, Marina Cicin-Sain, Dragan Cisic, Pavle Ergovic, Tihana Galinac Grbac, Vera Gradisnik, Stjepan Gros, Andrej Jokic, Alan Jovic, Darko Jurekovic, Tihomir Katulic, Marko Koricic, Vedran Mornar, Juraj Petrovic, Karolj Skala, Dejan Skvorc, Vlado Sruk, Marko Svaco, Edvard Tijan, Neven Vrcek, Boris Vrdoljak
PublisherIEEE
Pages566-570
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350382495
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventMIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention - Opatija, Croatia
Duration: 20 May 202424 May 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Convention MIPRO
ISSN (Electronic)2623-8764

Conference

ConferenceMIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityOpatija
Period20/05/2424/05/24

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications

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