00:01Well, look, the government was saying that it was hearing concerns from teachers, parents
00:05and students themselves actually about the extent to which some of these take home assignments
00:10were being outsourced to AI. Now, there's been research about the effect that that has
00:14on student learning, the fact that they miss out on critical thinking skills, they're not
00:18getting those key kind of building blocks to learning. So it's, you know, something
00:22that can be useful for sort of short term learning, but in terms of the long term outcomes,
00:26it can have quite a detrimental effect. So basically what happened was the Education
00:31Minister Pru Carr initially flagged potentially a moratorium on take home assignments as part
00:37of the HSC. But when she asked the New South Wales Education Standards Authority, which is
00:42the body that puts together the HSC and the curriculum to take a look at this issue, this
00:47is the sort of model that they came back with. So a real pull back, I guess, on the amount
00:51of assignments that students are doing at home. And this is what the Education Minister
00:55Pru Carr had to say about it. Teachers tell me that it's proving very difficult to try and
01:00ascertain the use of AI in take home assessments. So this really is based on advice from the
01:08NESA board. That doesn't mean that everything becomes an exam as well. I want to make sure
01:12that people understand that might be other school based assessments that teachers are very
01:17skilled at setting and marking. So how exactly will this work for students?
01:23So each subject, they'll have one or it'll be limited to just one take home assignment or
01:28it might be an essay or, you know, some other form of assignment, which will only be allowed
01:32to be worth a maximum of 15% of that take home assessment component. Sorry, the school assessment
01:37component of the HSC. So the way the HSC works is your final end of year HSC exams are worth
01:42about 50% of 50% of your final mark. And the stuff that you do as part of the
01:47school assessment
01:48process is worth 50%. So there'll be one assignment in that 50%, which will be worth up to, it'll
01:53actually be 7.5% of the overall HSC mark. So it's 50% of the assessment, 15% of
01:58the assessment
01:59component, which works out to be 7.5% of your overall HSC mark. So it's a considerable scaling
02:04back from where it is now. And it means that essentially more than 90% of a student's final result
02:11in the HSC will be from things that they have either done in the classroom or in the
02:16exam room at the end of the year. There will be some exemptions to this though,
02:20won't there? Can you take me through those? Yeah, that's right. So subjects where there's
02:22a major work component, so, you know, art, for example, that the people have a major work
02:27component there, drama, industrial technology, those subjects won't be under this rule, essentially
02:34because those are long term projects that students take home and then they bring back to the
02:39classroom and do in front of their teachers, they take home. It's a process where AI is
02:43less of a liability. I guess it's easier to detect when it's being used and there's less
02:47chance for it to be used to complete the whole assignment. So essentially, Nessa has said they
02:52believe this is the right balance. It still allows students to do those sorts of subjects
02:56where major works are important to them. But at the same time, you know, it means that there
03:00is some checks and balances on AI that previously weren't there before.
03:03a lot of people.
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