How to Tackle AI--and Cheating--in the Classroom

This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I'd never before felt at the end of a school year. By the time grades are submitted and signs of summer arrive, teachers are typically able to breathe for the first time in nine months. Instead of the relaxation, joy, and accomplishment that typically awaits the end of an academic year, I was consumed with worry that this might be the last time in a nearly two-decade career that I taught a class without having to worry about AI. I get it–AI has technically been around forever, and natural language processing tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are built on decades of research. Anyone who has used spellcheck or language translation apps or heard a spoken text message has used language processing tools driven by AI technology.