Are teachers winning?
We teachers have been faced with not just grading writing assignments but also figuring out who or what wrote them. Our trusted Moodle plagiarism checker sometimes just refuses to work and sometimes it reports 100 percent rates. For me, this term has seen the highest rates of plagiarism ever in my classes.
This article describes the perspective of another teacher who has also been faced with grading ‘unusual’ written work.
It seems odd to just stop all projects and work done outside of class in fear of it being completed by AI so should we just think about what AI cannot do or ask students to revise in weekly study groups or even organisé them via a uni tutor. We are discussing an English club so why not incorporate that into your course ecosystem. As for assessment the simple solution is class participation grades and assessed contributions etc. A portfolio of work from each lesson perhaps. Reflective tasks, personalised self-assessment and assessing peers. Also very very specific and local tasks even. Before we asked student to discuss and analyse big companies. What did they do that most people would naturally do? Wikipedia. How about if we give tasks that demand they make new information that doesn’t exist. Also that they can then develop into articles and posts and even push into their research for dissertations. Perhaps we are finally able to get back to that creative mindset that kids have that allegedly is sometimes pushed down by a traditional education system. If AI can do the facts and basic summaries and companies and even create some new content then surely we can ask students to start at the limit of AI and push forward. We could also do an AI test and have groups use different AI. Perhaps this could even be lesson 1 then each student could be encouraged to do online training via free elearning. All of these would be valuable additions to their CVs. That opens up an important question we have to ask ourselves when course planning and that is ‘what will my students have learned and developed by the end end of this course that they didn’t have before that will help them get relevant jobs’??????????????????????
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