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I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach.
The response from teachers and university professors was overwhelming. In my entire career, I’ve rarely gotten so many email responses to a single article, and I have never gotten so many thoughtful and comprehensive responses.
One thing is clear: teachers are not OK.
They describe trying to grade “hybrid essays half written by students and half written by robots,” trying to teach Spanish to kids who don’t know the meaning of the words they’re trying to teach them in English, and students who use AI in the middle of conversation. They describe spending hours grading papers that took their students seconds to generate: “I’ve been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher told me. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
Any ai/chatgpt gets an automatic 0 and discipline from the school for me. I don’t care how well crafted the paper or assignment is.
The problem is RELIABLY identifying fully/partially AI written work.
It can be, but there are usually some pretty obvious signs in punctuation or vocabulary use. If it looks too good, I go ask them about what they mean in different parts of their response and that’s usually enough to identify who would be able to write it vs who used ai.
Again, not 100% reliable but probably closer to 60-80. As I posted the last time this same link went around, I’m probably going to be moving to handwritten work and no phones in class to make it easier on myself.