“Why do they do this?” he asks. Because you don’t fail them. Give them a big fat 0 on the assignment, no need to even tell them why.
Then if they beg nicely, let the flunked students do a make-up assignment in the classroom, in front of you, with a pencil and paper and their phones turned off.
Brother-in-law teaches AP English at a fancy high school. Assigned his favorite author whom he studied extensively in grad school. Kid turns in essay with fake quotes, obviously AI. BIL meets with student. Asks if they used LLM to write paper. “No.” “Ok I’ll give you 30 seconds to find any of these quotes in the book before I call your parents and give you a zero.” Tears flow. Parents called. F obtained. Boss teacher move.
The ChatGPT rhetorical style is distinctive enough that I can catch it, but not so distinctive to be worth passing along to an honor council. Even if I did, I’m not sure the marginal gains in the integrity of the class would be worth the hours spent litigating the issue.
Arguments to be made for spending time now to set a tone of course!
“Why do they do this?” he asks. Because you don’t fail them. Give them a big fat 0 on the assignment, no need to even tell them why.
Then if they beg nicely, let the flunked students do a make-up assignment in the classroom, in front of you, with a pencil and paper and their phones turned off.
Brother-in-law teaches AP English at a fancy high school. Assigned his favorite author whom he studied extensively in grad school. Kid turns in essay with fake quotes, obviously AI. BIL meets with student. Asks if they used LLM to write paper. “No.” “Ok I’ll give you 30 seconds to find any of these quotes in the book before I call your parents and give you a zero.” Tears flow. Parents called. F obtained. Boss teacher move.
One of the best techniques for catching llm use is interviewing, which is now an approved technique in my jurisdiction.
They often don’t have any idea what it is they’ve included, and cannot explain it or offer any further detail.
This is a great example of how so-called AI is increasing the amount of work people have to do, not reducing it
Nice
Widespread interviewing as a practice would really set a tone right?
“Yeah guys you can always use ChatGPT in her class but you HAVE to read and learn all the original source material FIRST”
Teachers: hehehe yesss yess learnnnn children
(Pair with on-the-spot writing tests with some accommodation for, IDK, various scenarios… shy kids, English Language Learners (ESL), etc.)
Feel bad for the guy
Arguments to be made for spending time now to set a tone of course!