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How does making podcasts solve anything? Students can just read out what the AI writes into an audio recording.

Why is this problem being fretted over? In-class written and oral tests should be fine to assess students. If AI helps them learn or even cram the material, great!




One of the skills that students are typically terrible at is convincingly recreating the flow of a conversation that is written down. Shakespeare, spoken in meter-less monotone with none of the prosody that indicates actual speech by a human being communicating something; Prosody you can often decode even in a language you have no knowledge of. If they manage to fake it convincingly for an hour-long podcast, they have taught themselves acting on a level that is commercially useful and honestly understand much of what is being said.

If they are just working from AI notes and improvising the conversation, arguably they are simply doing the work.

What I don't know is whether an instructor would be allowed to earnestly grade an hour-long podcast subjectively.


Homework and/or project assignments are often a major component of scoring for many courses.

You can do different podcast structures than a single person reading a script, which can produce some useful social barriers to cheating.

A lot of kids also suck at cheating so the small barrier of "ask ai to generate a script and then read it" appears to stop a bunch of cheaters.

There are limitations to timed evaluations such that oral exams or blue books are not panaceas.




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