Maybe writing assignments should be done in class, instead of at home. Anything you let students complete in their own time has always been open to cheating, via calculators, excessive help from parents, or straight up paying someone online to write it for you. This isn’t really any different, albeit a bit faster and cheaper. You always need to stand behind a kid and watch them work if you want to be sure they’re really doing it themselves.
Yeah, there’s no way to tell if it’s been written by AI anymore. All you have to do is change the punctuation and vary sentence length…
Maybe we will move to a new radical model where students have to demonstrate understanding instead of throwing enough words at a page.
Maybe writing assignments should be done in class, instead of at home. Anything you let students complete in their own time has always been open to cheating, via calculators, excessive help from parents, or straight up paying someone online to write it for you. This isn’t really any different, albeit a bit faster and cheaper. You always need to stand behind a kid and watch them work if you want to be sure they’re really doing it themselves.