I caught my college students cheating with AI. Here's how I'm trying to fix the problem.
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HUFF POST — Last semester, I suspected I had a major issue with the use of generative AI in my survey courses, so I inserted what is known as a “Trojan horse” into the directions for a paper I assigned. As it turned out, I did, in fact, have a major problem, and my post on Threads about it accidentally went quasi-viral and ultimately became this HuffPost article,followed by an NPR interview.
Fellow educators and the majority of other readers were generally horrified by the results of my experiment, while a minority accused me of setting my students up for failure and creating a classroom atmosphere of distrust — as if students’ use of generative AI had not already done so.
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