AI (Artificial Intelligence) and AI (Academic Integrity)
27/02/25 09:10
I let my students use AI. It's a good tool and why wouldn't we want our students to learn how to use good tools? But, like all swords, this one is double edged. Some students use AI for generating ideas, studying for assessments and helping with assignments. Others use it to generate a document or a presentation and then hand it in 1. As their own work, and 2. Without even bothering to edit the work. Clearly these latter students are violating Academic Integrity guidelines. But what to do? The AI genie isn't going back into the bottle and banning its use is akin to schools attempting, back in the day, to ban calculators. I suspect the middle ground is teaching students to use AI properly, to cite their use and to make the resulting outcomes their own, AND to go back to old school type assessments - oral exams perhaps Proctored rooms? Authentic assessments are difficult to do and usually aren't scalable but the alternative is unpalatable.