Are We Entering The Age Of The Digital Symposium?

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SJ Games Daily Illuminator for February 17, 2026

Are We Entering The Age Of The Digital Symposium?

I recently found "Fighting Fire with Fire" to be an interesting read - it's tempting to push our workloads onto the various powerful and easily accessible AI chatbots out there, especially for students. What's a teacher to do? Build a digital Symposium, that's what. 

 

The article gives quite a detailed breakdown of how a panel of LLMs was put together to test student knowledge. Traditionally, oral exams were exactly the method needed to verify that students actually understood the projects they were submitting, but scale has kept this ancient practice from being a practical reality for today's classroom sizes. Until now.

 

The future is looking more and more like students will carry the Symposium around with them in their pockets or backpacks and have access to a personal Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle anytime they choose. 

-- Brandon McClelland