Everyone in college is cheating? A viral piece from NYMag lays bare a somewhat bleak landscape in higher education, one in which students are spending their free time on TikTok, and using ChatGPT and similar tools to handle their coursework for them. Many are calling for a return of in-class essays as a fix, but no matter what solutions eventually come forward it’s safe to say that education — higher and lower — will be fundamentally changed by AI tools that can do much of what students have traditionally been asked to spit up.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html?_bhlid=f69afff662cb802333b4487b7e40065e8483ca19

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Everyone in college is cheating? A viral piece from NYMag lays bare a somewhat bleak landscape in higher education, one in which students are spending their free time on TikTok, and using ChatGPT and similar tools to handle their coursework for them. Many are calling for a return of in-class essays as a fix, but no matter what solutions eventually come forward it’s safe to say that education — higher and lower — will be fundamentally changed by AI tools that can do much of what students have traditionally been asked to spit up.  https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html?_bhlid=f69afff662cb802333b4487b7e40065e8483ca19   #For Teachers By Teachers   #Edtech Innovation   #ScholER

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We’ve long heard the complaints from teachers that they have to add “check if student cheated with AI” to their grading process, but with the addition of many (AI-aided) screening tools, the pendulum is swinging the other way: now honest students are going to elaborate lengths to document they really, truly did the work. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.iE8l.YCUxVWYBD2AC&smid=url-share&utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20250527&utm_content=d88c95e103f5e38e4addf4a0b9fa385f

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We’ve long heard the complaints from teachers that they have to add “check if student cheated with AI” to their grading process, but with the addition of many (AI-aided) screening tools, the pendulum is swinging the other way: now honest students are going to elaborate lengths to document they really, truly did the work.   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.iE8l.YCUxVWYBD2AC&smid=url-share&utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20250527&utm_content=d88c95e103f5e38e4addf4a0b9fa385f   #For Teachers By Teachers   #Edtech Innovation

Students are resorting to extreme measures to fend off accusations of cheating, including hourslong screen recordings of their homework sessions.

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I.

Truly, the job of teachers is not to become detectives. A teacher's role is to provide proper education and assess it fairly.

Nowadays, students rely so heavily on tools and, due to laziness and a tendency to take shortcuts, they are using them excessively. As a result, they are neither dedicating time to real learning nor gaining true knowledge. Instead, they are learning how to cheat, which can be extremely harmful to their future.

For this reason, not just educational institutions but all of us must play a conscious and responsible role.

A colleague shared an experiment that really stuck with me:
After students turn in their essays, he runs each one through AI and asks it to generate a 3-5 question quiz to test the student’s understanding of the core concepts in their own work.
The quiz becomes part of the process, not as punishment, but as a signal. It tells students: what matters most isn’t just the writing it’s the thinking behind it, the learning, the ROI of your effort.
Brilliant I think!

https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/i-want-to-be-a-teacher-not-an-ai-detective-01211ad14499

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Truly, the job of teachers is not to become detectives. A teacher's role is to provide proper education and assess it fairly.  Nowadays, students rely so heavily on tools and, due to laziness and a tendency to take shortcuts, they are using them excessively. As a result, they are neither dedicating time to real learning nor gaining true knowledge. Instead, they are learning how to cheat, which can be extremely harmful to their future.  For this reason, not just educational institutions but all of us must play a conscious and responsible role.  A colleague shared an experiment that really stuck with me: After students turn in their essays, he runs each one through AI and asks it to generate a 3-5 question quiz to test the student’s understanding of the core concepts in their own work. The quiz becomes part of the process, not as punishment, but as a signal. It tells students: what matters most isn’t just the writing it’s the thinking behind it, the learning, the ROI of your effort. Brilliant I think!  https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/i-want-to-be-a-teacher-not-an-ai-detective-01211ad14499   #Science Teachers In Asia   #For Teachers By Teachers   #Edtech Innovation

Bobby

A group of likeminded people in ScholER are talking about this.