I was just thinking...it's probably highly likely that in the near future some tool will come out for teachers and the like to attempt to mitigate the use of generative AI for writing tasks. Some kind of proprietary 'writing DRM'...I hate to say it, but I can just feel it coming. Think of a captcha but for writing...
I finished my high school teaching career 8 years ago. There were lots of reasons, but technology was one. The pace of change in technology was hard to keep up with for someone whose not a digital native, but the impact on students’ research & writing & the difficulties involved in fairly assessing their work was profound. I suspect that situation has only got much worse.
Research and writing uses all of the higher order, critical thinking skills. Quite apart from the issue of cheating, using technology to produce reports, essays etc robs students of crucial opportunities to develop and hone those skills.
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