Instead of police, teachers should rediscover homework

The educational sector has slept in labor. While many high schools and colleges in California maintain academic whole policies, expecting students to present original work, a worrying reality has emerged: the generative AI has compromised the traditional essay for the home and other forms of homework that measure students’ thinking.

There is a striking bay between how teachers, professors and administrators believe that students use generative AI in writing and how we actually use it. As a student, the assumption I encountered from the figures of authority is that if the essay is written using Chatgpt, there will be some evidence – a distinctive “voice”, limited complexity or sensitivity to discovery software.

This is a dangerous delusion.

AI detection companies like Turnitin, Gptzero and others have capitalized by this misconceptionIn claiming that they can identify the AI ​​content with accuracy levels up to 98%. But these shiny statistics are based on the naive assumption that students present raw, unmodified chat reactions.

A 2023 University of Maryland He revealed that these detectors perform only a little better than the accidental guests. I studied high school students in the Bay area and found that the vast majority consistently uses AI to write tasks, regardless of the discovery measures. No student announces that he has sent an unchanged AI text. In the meantime, almost all my teachers have told me that they regularly overturn or neglect the AI ​​checks conclusions.

The reality is sobering: it is very easy for students to use AI to make the lion’s share of thinking while still sending a job that looks like our own. We can manually edit AI answers to be more ‘cracked“Hire one of the countless programs that” humanize “text or mix ideas generated by AI with their own prose.

The problem is not technological – even the perfect detection software could not prevent intellectual plagiarism when students can collect ideas from AI and put them in their own words. After all, the problem is behavioral.

When infidelity is easy and the consequences are distant, people cheat. Noor Akbari, co -founder and CEO of Rosalyn.Ai, Put it perfectly: “When enough players in a racing game can cheat high up and at low risk, other players will feel forced to cheat.”

We saw this game during Covid when online training made infidelity ridiculous easily. Study She found that the infidelity jumped by 20% during the pandemic.

Fallout is already obvious. Thehe Last Card to Restore Education It shows that American students remain almost half a level of mathematics and reading compared to the levels before the pandemic. And while California scored a lot better From the national average, this is because we were already lagging in 2019.

Of course, AI can theoretically help learn – brain attack, helping editing, helping students learn English with sentences. But come on. Most students use it because thinking is difficult and AI practically makes it unnecessary.

We are now in an absurd middle position where academic policy in response to generative and ignoring human nature. Fortunately, many teachers adapt. But we have to encounter an awkward truth that almost any form of unsupported assessment can now be compromised by AI. The only reliable solution is to rethink our approach to the assessment of students.

There are three specific changes that schools and universities can apply.

First, moving the basic evaluations of writing to a controlled environment. Whether it is an essay in a class class, provided computer laboratories or oral defense exercises, in which students should explain their reasoning, we need approaches that check that students can produce and protect original thinking.

Second, we need to integrate the oral components into large exams. Students should be able to explain and defend their written work through discussions one with one with teachers. This could help reveal gaps in understanding if they have assigned their thinking.

Third, educational institutions must transfer the emphasis on the use of AI police to explicit teaching of cognitive processes that AI cannot replace: critical thinking, creative solution to problems and effective communication. These skills are best developed through itteral practice with immediate feedback, not through homework, completed insulation.

This is not about resistance to technological progress. It is about providing educational institutions to fulfill their main mission: to teach students how to think independently and to communicate effectively. Acknowledging that traditional tasks are no longer reliably serving this purpose, we can begin to adapt our educational approaches to maintaining academic integrity and prepare students for a world where human judgment remains irreplaceable.

California voice editors have confirmed that AI has not been used to help write this comment on guests. “Every word in this piece is mine,” Liang told us. Given the topic, we had to ask.