AI allows more time for students, North Dakota educators say

Rethinking Assessment in the Age of AI - Educators Technology

If machines can write essays, what’s the point of assigning them? That question, raised by Hua Hsu in his New Yorker essay What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?, lingers like a quiet challenge to every educator who still grades student papers late into the night. Hsu presents a picture of college life where ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are as common as highlighters once were. Students use them to summarize readings, organize notes, wr…

AI allows more time for students, North Dakota educators say

BISMARCK — When Connor Fitzgerald sits down to create a lesson plan for his high school English class, he goes about it a little differently than he used to. Instead of spending hours on research and coming up with ideas, he punches words into a textbox on his computer and waits just a few seconds for results. This new way of approaching lesson planning — one not using textbooks but algorithms — is just the tip of the iceberg of how artificial i…