Colman Noctor

But it's to have that forethought when that panic comes in to...

Take a breath.

And you know, people say, read the question, take a breath.

There's a real value in that.

And again, from a cramming point of view, it's still there.

That information is in there somewhere.

So if it's not coming readily, something like an exam paper and getting that recall is really, really good.

When we're teaching at the moment, we're trying to think of ways of

kind of getting around the kind of AI stuff, you know, that how do we ensure people are learning?

And I've gone back to doing table quizzes in classes, you know, to try and get people to, and it's, they're really good in terms of, you know, asking them a question, they have to confer and they go, oh, you covered that there.

So, but it's funny, like we're talking about the leaving cert and, you know, loads of people will say how archaic it is, you know, that you sit down and do a three hour exam or whatever.

And

The temptation with AI is you have to go back to pen and paper exams to prove that somebody is not using AI.

And the more crude the assessment instrument, the more robust it is in a world where AI can infiltrate all the assignments and things that people do.

So, yeah, again, an interesting time to be in academia, but certainly challenges ahead for sure.

I think while it might be the toughest exam you'll ever do, that doesn't correlate to being the most important exam you'll ever do.

And I think we probably conflate those two things.

And again, when we're trying to decide what we're going to do with the rest of our lives at 17, 18 years of age, it's preposterous that we would even suggest that we would have a clue about that.

Like what car you want to drive when you're 20 is different to the car you want to drive when you're 40.

Do you know what I mean?