We believe that the best outcome for educators and students arrives by working together proactively to understand the problem of AI misuse and find strategies that hone in on the human value of education. For example, educators can:
- Help students understand the risks of using AI in their work (to learn more, see this article), and value of learning to express themselves. For example, in real-life, real-time collaboration, pitching, and debate, how does your class improve their ability to communicate when AI is not available?
- Create an assessment that cannot be answered by ChatGPT or other AI. For example:
- Ask students to write about personal experiences and how they relate to the text, or reflect on their learning experience in your class.
- Ask students to critique the default answer given by ChatGPT to your question.
- Require that students cite real, primary sources of information to back up their specific claims, or ask them to write about recent events.
- Assess students based on a live discussion with their peers, and use peer assessment tools (such as the one provided by our partner, Peerceptiv).
- Ask students to complete their assignments in class or in an interactive way, and shift lectures to be take-home.
- Ask students to produce multiple drafts of their work that they can revise as peers or through the educator, to help students understand that assignments are meant to teach a learning process.
- Ask students to produce work in a medium that is difficult to generate, such as powerpoint presentations, visual displays, videos, or audio recordings.
- Set expectations for your students that you will be checking the work through an AI detector like GPTZero, to deter misuse of AI.