# @feministscience on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DW10nSQlBe7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65473635-feministscience-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-07T18:44:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Feminist Science (@feministscience) — https://gondola.cc/feministscience

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I went to college and grad school in the 2010s. The last class I took in grad school (2017) was the only one I was allowed a laptop on an in-class exam. 

The Chem dept was so paranoid we would cheat we were allowed 1 pencil. Bags, coats, and large boots were dropped in the front of the classroom. 

 Basically, needing anything more than a pencil was considered cheating & lazy and unworthy of advanced STEM classes. (one teacher before every test said “all you need is your pencil and your brain!!”) 

They spent 0 time thinking or developing guidelines on how tools like calculators can aide or hinder cognition and real learning of the subject matter. 

Now they are scrambling incorporating LLMs into research & teaching b/c they were stuck in the stone age for so long but have put 0 now thought of how Generative AI can hurt or help the student learning or academic research in the long run. 

Generative AI poses a real threat to decreasing student cognition and learning based on several alarming new studies coming out.

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So I have to ask #professors what was so terrible about using a calculator in the first place? Do you not care about current students learning? Or did you want to torture us #millenials b/c calculators didn't exist when you were growing up? 

#womenhowcode #womenengineers #womeninstem #womeninsteam #feministscience #feminism #sciencefeminism #feministsciencestudies #ai #LLMs #collegelife

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womeninsteam, sciencefeminism, feminism, ai, womeninstem, womenengineers, collegelife, millenials, professors, womenhowcode, feministscience, llms, feministsciencestudies

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