The Prudent Physics Teacher
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The Prudent Physics Teacher
@theprudentphysicst.bsky.social
Real tales from the physics classroom.

Opening doors to new adventures every day.

I teach physics so you don't have to.
Me: Yes, I understand that's the solution ChatGPT gave you.

And yet, it gave you three different answers to the same problem, didn't it? All of them wrong?

I thought so.
March 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Stu (on reviewing results of an assessment): Well, that's what I meant to write down, but I forgot it at the time. I know it now.

PPT: Excellent.😉
February 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Stu: we need more practice problems

(what the PPT hears): we want you to give us a few problems that we can memorize and repeat back on quizzes and unit assessments.
February 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I understand what you said about getting partial credit on a test question in your 9th grade physics first class for writing the known values, but you're a senior in AP Physics now.
January 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Stu: I don't understand why you marked this one wrong

PPT: You wrote two different answers

Stu: Yeah, I didn't know which was right.

PPT: Now you do 🙂
January 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM