1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,320 Welcome to the Teachers Need Teachers Podcasts, the podcast for teachers who don't want 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:09,960 to just survive teaching, but actually thrive. It has been a while since 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:15,439 I last posted because I got sick, And what's kind of interesting is that 4 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:21,359 I posted my last episode about how to prepare for substitute days, and then 5 00:00:21,399 --> 00:00:26,120 I got sick and I used all that information because I was out for a 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,719 while. So if you haven't checked out that episode, be sure to do 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,560 that. And I'm really excited about today's episode because I've been reading a lot 8 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,960 of information lately about students cheating with AI, and I definitely wanted to address 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,679 it. Even though it's only banned about a year. Since chat GPT was 10 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:47,719 unveiled to the public, AI has permeated pretty much every aspect of our lives. 11 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,600 It has been useful in so many different ways than people could have even 12 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:55,479 dreamed of, but it's also become quite a headache in the education space. 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,200 It seems like people are on either side of the fence when it comes to 14 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,520 AI. They're all in and super excited about using it and their teaching in 15 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,560 their classrooms, or they're assembling teams to try to find out ways to battle 16 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:12,719 this technology in education. I absolutely love AI and specifically things like chat GPT, 17 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:18,159 but I do acknowledge that students aren't using it effectively and are frankly being 18 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,159 pretty lazy about it. They're just asking AI to write their assignments for them 19 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,079 and just pass it off as their own, which ill So in this episode, 20 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,000 I'm discussing five hacks that will make it harder for your students to cheat 21 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,719 in the age of AI. Stay until the end because I have a bonus 22 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:36,760 tip that's going to work for a lot of you, and you don't want 23 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,680 to miss out. The first step to making your assignments more cheap proof is 24 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:44,719 to get a baseline of your student's work. I would suggest that you do 25 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,799 some kind of paper and pencil assignment to make sure that it's authentic, and 26 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,599 I would make it really low stakes. In fact, I wouldn't even grade 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,120 this initial assignment. You would be more along the lines of show me what 28 00:01:56,159 --> 00:01:59,480 your teacher taught you last year, show me what you know in my particular 29 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:02,599 subject, and just make it so that the students don't necessarily feel compelled to 30 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,280 cheat in any way and they don't freeze, and they'll actually show you what 31 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:09,280 it is that they can do. You could even make it a group assignment 32 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,479 if that makes it easier for the students, But I would suggest giving them 33 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,199 some easier material, something that they should have already learned by the time that 34 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:21,199 they've got to you, and then have them work through that and write out 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,319 their answers, whether it's math or science or any subject, just basically what 36 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:28,240 is it that they're coming to you with and so that they can give you 37 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:31,000 authentic work. And if you teach a subject where students are going to have 38 00:02:31,039 --> 00:02:35,240 to site sources or anything like that, go ahead and ask them to do 39 00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:38,319 that as well. Now, one of the reasons why I like to do 40 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,439 this is because the different programs that use AI, like chat, GPT or 41 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,439 Bard, they have their own voice. They have a particular syntax and cadence 42 00:02:47,479 --> 00:02:51,479 that after a while of using them, you kind of get used to the 43 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,280 way that it sounds. So having a baseline of how they actually write or 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:03:00,360 how they actually work their thought process, you can compare something that they in 45 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,479 that maybe doesn't seem like it's really there, You can compare it to the 46 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,319 baseline, and that can be further proof that they probably cheated on it. 47 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:12,000 It's actually pretty interesting to see how each AI functions. For example, what 48 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,599 chat GPT, when you ask them a question, they will repeat the question 49 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:20,719 in the introductory sentence, and then they'll give you the answer, and then 50 00:03:20,719 --> 00:03:23,439 they'll have a conclusion, and a lot of times Google Bard, they like 51 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:27,879 to give you things in bullet points, and they also kind of summarize what 52 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,319 you just said, and they don't necessarily provide you with as much of a 53 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,680 conclusion, but just the way, it's kind of like having a conversation with 54 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:37,599 different people, you can just kind of tell, or even like if you 55 00:03:37,639 --> 00:03:39,639 text someone, you can tell just by the way that they text who they 56 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,039 are. So next, you're definitely going to have to tweak some of your 57 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:49,280 assignments and create more specifications and requirements. So this is really important because the 58 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:54,319 AI isn't capable of fulfilling all of the requirements for your assignment, especially if 59 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:59,360 you're picky. So what this could look like is requiring a certain format for 60 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:02,960 your submission. For example, my PLC, we teach seventh grade English, 61 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:09,360 we require what we call the race paragraph format, and so race is R 62 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:14,520 for rey, A is answer, C is site, and E is explained. 63 00:04:14,759 --> 00:04:18,519 Although it's more like racist is because I do cite and explain twice, 64 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,879 plus I require a summarizing sentence. So if a student goes into chat GPT 65 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:28,879 or Bard and asks it to write a race paragraph about a particular subject, 66 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,560 most of the time when those paragraphs come back, it's not in the proper 67 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,079 format. It doesn't fulfill my particular requirements. For example, when they cite 68 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:40,560 their evidence for me, they have to use direct quotes. Also for their 69 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,839 explanations, they need two sentences, and those sentences cannot paraphrase or summarize the 70 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,639 quotes. Sometimes I even require that they use certain transition words or certain phrases. 71 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:55,319 And so the more specific that you can be in terms of your requirements 72 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:58,399 in which you put on the rubric, the harder it is for them to 73 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:01,040 use AI to cheat. For math, you could do something that require that 74 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,680 they divide their work up into certain sections they number or label each step. 75 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:11,199 Maybe they have a more metacognitive area where they have to write out their thinking 76 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,279 process on that and it has to be like on a certain area of the 77 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:16,519 page. It just makes it a little bit harder for them to do copying 78 00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:21,079 and pasting. And I would definitely deduct points from any deviation from your format, 79 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,480 so that students learn that they have to do it precisely and in this 80 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,240 way, and they're going to find that it's actually more work for them to 81 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:32,680 use AI to help them with the assignment than to just figure it out on 82 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,040 their own. It's gotten to the point where when I'm using AI to create 83 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,680 multiple choice quizzes, it can't even give me the exact format that I need 84 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:46,040 in order to import it into my learning management system, and so I still 85 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,040 have to go in and tweak some things. It's also given me incorrect multiple 86 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:55,000 choice answers when I've asked it about a particular story, and so you still 87 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,959 have to go back and check your work to make sure that the AI is 88 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:02,079 correct. And I've had even students submit assignments using AI. The quotes that 89 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:08,160 they use in there didn't even exist in the story, and so everyone pretty 90 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,360 much has to be careful when they're using it because AI isn't full proof. 91 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,879 Something that I would also consider is your revision, redo retake policy. Now 92 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:19,240 there's going to be a subset of kids who are going to cheat regardless of 93 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,600 what your policy is because they just don't want to do the work. They're 94 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:26,199 just lazy, they don't want to do the work. But at the same 95 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:29,160 time, they don't want to be hassled by their parents because they have an 96 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,079 F in your class, So they're going to use AI to cheat. But 97 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,319 then there's also those students who because they want to go to a higher level 98 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:42,120 college or university and grades really matter for them because of that, they are 99 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:45,120 cheating so that they don't get a bad grade in your class. And so 100 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,120 sometimes if you have a really strict policy where you don't allow revisions or any 101 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:51,959 kind of retakes, you're more likely to get students who are going to cheat. 102 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,759 The next thing that you can do that will definitely forward any attempts to 103 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,639 just copy and paste from AI is to require and proof. So what this 104 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,759 would look like for a writing assignment is you would require sources and citations for 105 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,920 the assignments. And I know it doesn't apply to every situation, but if 106 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,920 you can make it apply to writing assignments specifically, you're going to find that 107 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:16,959 students are going to be less likely to cheat if you do this. So 108 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,800 one thing that you could do is create a minimum number of citations, say 109 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:26,959 five to ten per assignment, and then I would ask students for screenshots of 110 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,160 the sources. So let's say that they had to read a nonfiction article and 111 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,720 then they had to do some kind of write up about it, and they 112 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,600 would have to include a quote from the article. What I would want them 113 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:40,839 to do is not only quote it, but also screenshot it. That way, 114 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:45,199 you know for sure that they know where that quote is in the article 115 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:47,519 and that they didn't just pull it from AI. And then if you do 116 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:53,079 allow them to paraphrase the evidence, they still need to include a screenshot of 117 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,240 the actual quote. And here's why I took a class for my own professional 118 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:01,399 development, and I decided that I was going to see if I could use 119 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:03,839 AI to help me with my assignments and what that would look like and what 120 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:07,519 would happen, because honestly, I was just curious, not that I needed 121 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,120 the help because I am an English teacher, but I just wanted to see 122 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,399 what it could do. I have to tell you that in many ways, 123 00:08:15,959 --> 00:08:20,160 it kind of sucked. So something that I tried doing was copying a chapter 124 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,079 from the textbook and pasting it into the AI and then asking it to pull 125 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,800 quotes to support a certain claim. Something that I like to do is the 126 00:08:28,879 --> 00:08:31,559 double check and find where that quote is in the text. And I would 127 00:08:31,559 --> 00:08:35,519 go back and I couldn't find that quote in the text. I would do 128 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:39,399 a control F and search specific words in the quote that it gave me, 129 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:43,039 and it didn't exist. So then I thought, well, maybe just paraphrase 130 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,840 it for me. So then I still had to dig through the chapter to 131 00:08:46,919 --> 00:08:50,600 find that particular quote that it was pulling from, and it was just the 132 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:52,720 same amount of work as if I had just done it myself. If anything, 133 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,679 it took longer. I've also found that sometimes the AI just makes up 134 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,200 things. So if you're asking students to give you the original quote, if 135 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,679 you're asking them to give you the original citation, then they are less likely 136 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:09,639 to cheat because it doesn't do them any good. It's easier if they just 137 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,799 go and find the quote themselves, rather than having chat GPT you write it 138 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:16,639 out for them and then have to go back and find where it lines up 139 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,600 with the quote. I also asked various AI programs to give me a list 140 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,320 of studies that I needed for a research paper. So I just wanted to 141 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,039 see if you could give me websites or scientific studies so that I wouldn't have 142 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:31,519 to look it up myself. But here's what I did. I took the 143 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,600 ten studies that it gave me, and I actually search for those. And 144 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:39,120 I'm a fairly good googler, So if I don't find something on the first 145 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:41,679 try, I know how to tweak it so that I can really find what 146 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,159 it is that I'm looking for. And I would say that only about half 147 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,759 of those sources actually existed. It's like it made up these articles or journals 148 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,200 or studies. I don't know what it was, but I couldn't find at 149 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:58,879 least half of them. So then I had to still go to like Google 150 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:03,000 scholar and find our goals on my own. But it's not necessarily the most 151 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:07,200 reliable thing. So if you have something like that where the students have to 152 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:11,120 prove to you that something exists, or that they have to prove where they 153 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,399 found something, it's going to be a lot harder for them to cheat. 154 00:10:15,519 --> 00:10:18,000 So then I mentioned for writing assignments that they would have to cite sources, 155 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:22,320 but this also works for something like science. So if they're doing elaborator, 156 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,679 there's a good chance that you're having them apply something that they learned in the 157 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,960 textbook. So what you could do is require them to cite sources from the 158 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,320 textbook or cite information from the textbook to back up their claims. What this 159 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,080 could look like in math is asking them to show their work and again to 160 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,960 be really metacognitive in terms of putting out their thought process of Okay, why 161 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,360 did I do that next step? Why did I do that other stuff? 162 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:52,720 And also properly labeling it. You could also incentivize them not cheating by allowing 163 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:58,159 them to get full points if they do test corrections or if they go back 164 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:03,519 and fix certain answers, but they have to explain where their faulty thinking was, 165 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,000 and then they could still get full points, or at least they could 166 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,399 earn back some of the points that they lost. If students are struggling in 167 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,679 your class and they're doing poorly on the homework, and then they can go 168 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:16,960 back and fix it by just telling you what it is that they got wrong, 169 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,840 then they're less likely to cheat because you're letting them take risks and you're 170 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,360 encouraging that learning process for them. You know, in extreme cases of cheating 171 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,000 and math, something else that you could consider doing, which could seem like 172 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:31,240 a little more work, is to do an oral exam, So you could 173 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:35,879 give kids the types of questions that you're going to ask them ahead of time, 174 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,399 let's say like ten to twenty questions, and then on the day of 175 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,039 their oral exam they pull out a question from a JAR and that's someone that 176 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,600 they're going to have to work out in front of you and again be metacognitive 177 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:50,679 and think out loud, and their whole exam grade just kind of rides on 178 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:54,039 that one question. I mean, even if you gave them the questions ahead 179 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:56,720 of time, if they use AI to help them with that, they're not 180 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:01,000 really going to do so well in person on that exam. You can figure 181 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,440 out who needs reteaching or some remediation, and then you can help them catch 182 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,080 up later on. Now this next part will be a little bit controversial, 183 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,320 but you can kind of take the wind out of your student sales by actually 184 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:18,159 requiring them to use AI. I mean, if you can't beat them, 185 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,399 join them. And what's great about this is that you can actually show them 186 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,720 the limitations of AI so that they are less likely to depend on it. 187 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,840 So, for example, you could do a before and after assignment, so 188 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:35,360 students have to write out their assignment. Let's say in class paper and pencil. 189 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:39,000 You give them a prompt and they just have to write it out and 190 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,000 then they have to go in and type that into the AI and ask for 191 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,200 feedback. All the programs will give them feedback on their writing, and then 192 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:50,399 they have to revise their writing based on that feedback. And I would add 193 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,639 the additional step of having them highlight what it is that they fix. So 194 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,279 if they fix sentence structure or grammar or whatever it is that they fix that 195 00:13:00,399 --> 00:13:03,080 chat GPT told them to do, they have to actually highlight that. So 196 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,919 again, yes they could copy and paste it being rewritten in AI, but 197 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,200 they have to take that extra step of going through it anyway to highlight where 198 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,720 it was fixed. And of course I would ask for screenshots of all of 199 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:20,240 the steps to prove that they actually started out on their own, they went 200 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:24,320 to chat GPT, they read the feedback, and they revised it. Another 201 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,279 fun assignment, maybe if you teach science or social studies is to have them 202 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:33,440 ask AI for information. Maybe you can give them certain questions that they're going 203 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,799 to ask the AI, and then they have to fact check the answers that 204 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:41,159 they get. That could really turn it into a great conversation because they'll see 205 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,159 that AI is wrong a lot of times, and like I did with that 206 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,519 one class that I was taking, you can have them ask the AI for 207 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:54,200 ten sources for a research paper, just ten sources for something in general, 208 00:13:54,519 --> 00:13:56,519 and then they could go and look up those sources and decide, Okay, 209 00:13:56,519 --> 00:14:01,759 would those actually be something that I would use in my assignment or does it 210 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:05,559 even exist in math? You could give them a concept that they have never 211 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:09,799 learned before and have them ask chat GPT or Bart or any other AI to 212 00:14:09,919 --> 00:14:13,000 teach it to them, and then you could give them a quiz later on 213 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:16,399 to see just how well the AI taught it to them, and then you 214 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,919 could have a discussion about that, like how did it teach you how to 215 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,919 solve this? What types of examples did it give you so that you could 216 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,639 learn this concept? And then you could also then just teach a regular lesson. 217 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:31,320 But it's a really good learning experience for them to see what the AI 218 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:35,559 can and cannot do and that it's definitely not a replacement for you as a 219 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,399 teacher or for them, and they're thinking as a student to come up with 220 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,799 these types of assignments where they have to use AI, I would think, 221 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,399 like a student in your class, what would compel them to cheat, but 222 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:52,320 would compel them to use the AI in your class and then actually have them 223 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,440 do that. So again, if I have a race paragraph, I would 224 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,240 have my students ask the AI to write a race paragraph about a certain topic 225 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,000 and then have a discussion with each other about just how good or bad that 226 00:15:05,159 --> 00:15:09,039 race paragraph. Adding these requirements where they do have to use the AI, 227 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,799 they're still learning along the way. They're learning during the process so that they 228 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,559 can see what it is not only that the AI can do, but also 229 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,480 they are validating the information that's coming out, and they're still absorbing the concept 230 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:26,200 or whatever it is that you want them to learn in that process. I 231 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,440 mean, I have to tell you I've used it, like I said, 232 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,240 for multiple choice questions and things like that, a lot of the answers were 233 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,679 wrong, and you might be telling me that my prompt isn't good or that 234 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,240 I'm using it incorrectly. But if I'm using it incorrectly and I like to 235 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,759 use AI, you can just imagine how your students are using it. And 236 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:46,639 finally, I think it would be time well spent if you had an honest 237 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:50,600 conversation with your students about how AI is it going to replace them or they're 238 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:54,159 thinking Now, you want to make sure that you have this conversation from more 239 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,759 of a sympathetic place. I mean, people have been cheating on assignments for 240 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,200 ever. They've just gotten more sophisticated in their methods. I mean I remember 241 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:07,159 kids sitting outside of their lockers copying each other's work, or hiding in the 242 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,360 bathroom copying each other's work. And then when they had cell phone cameras, 243 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,360 they were taking pictures and sending it to each other, or they were taking 244 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:18,720 screenshots on their iPads. I mean, the kids have just gotten really savvy 245 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:22,639 in terms of how they cheat. But just remember they've always cheated, So 246 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:26,320 we don't want this to be a lecture about how they shouldn't cheat or use 247 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,240 AI to cheat. That's not the point. And then you're just going to 248 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,879 tune you out if you come at it from that angle. You need to 249 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:37,080 know that students are willing to die on this hill in terms of using AI 250 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,039 as a tool, and no matter how much you try to fight it, 251 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,120 if they want to use it, they're going to use it. So let's 252 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:48,399 try to come at it from a different way. Let's communicate to them that 253 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:52,000 the students still need to learn the material and it's really important for them, 254 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,679 especially if they're going to have a conversation with their peers in class about this. 255 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,559 If they didn't learn the material, frankly, they're going to look dumb. 256 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,399 I mean, they know what it's like to be in a group and 257 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:06,039 not know the material. They didn't do the work, and they're just sitting 258 00:17:06,039 --> 00:17:10,079 there while everyone else is frustrated with them. If they rely on the AI 259 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,720 to always do their homework for them or their assignments, they're not going to 260 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:17,799 learn. AI can't build a better body for us in a gym anymore then 261 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:22,160 it can build our brains. So our brains should be doing the heavy lifting 262 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,640 and not the AI. The AI should absolutely be a tool that we could 263 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,400 all use. The way that I like to use AI honestly is to use 264 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,000 it as a launching point to give me ideas, to help me get unstuck, 265 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:37,559 to help me phrase something when it's coming out pretty ugly and clunky, 266 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,519 and so I put down that ugly, clunky sentence and it just kind of 267 00:17:41,559 --> 00:17:45,880 cleans it up for me. I feel like students should want their authentic voices 268 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:51,200 to be heard, and that what they present to you as a student should 269 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,079 be the best that they have. It should be this is the best that 270 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,000 I can do. Take it or leave it. I'm willing to improve it 271 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:02,359 and make it better if you help me. But this is really what I 272 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,640 know. I just feel like as students, as they're getting older, they 273 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,319 have their right and the responsibility to make sure that we know who they are 274 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:14,039 and that we know what they're capable of doing, and not try to hide 275 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,359 behind a robot something along those lines when you're having this conversation with your students. 276 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,200 Because I've told my students how much I do like AI. I've written 277 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:26,839 articles for them to analyze and rate and answer questions and annotate with the help 278 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,200 of AI, and I'm really open about it. And so I think if 279 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,720 you come from more of a hey, this is a really cool tool, 280 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:37,200 and I think you can help them see how using it to cheat is not 281 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,440 going to help them in the long run. Now, as promised, my 282 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:45,440 bonus tip is to use a lockdown browser. Now, your school or district 283 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,839 will probably have to purchase this, but this is something that is being used 284 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:55,839 by California and when it gives its standardized testing every year, and basically it 285 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,640 locks down the student's device, whether it's an iPad or if it's a tablet, 286 00:18:59,799 --> 00:19:03,200 or if it's a computer, it locks it down so that they can't 287 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,799 go to any other tab or window or app or program or anything. It 288 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,039 literally locks them into that exam. So if you have a lot of cheating 289 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:18,079 when it comes to online exams and kids are using AI or just using study 290 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:22,920 guides or whatever, then purchasing a lockdown browser is really going to help curb 291 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,440 that. Now, if you haven't played with AI yet but you want to, 292 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:30,880 and you don't know where to start, then I would definitely suggest checking 293 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,440 out episode one ten or I do give you some prompts and also show you 294 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:40,680 how to better craft your prompts when you're asking AI to do things for you. 295 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,759 And so go ahead and check that out so that you can kind of 296 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,839 start to play with it and get an understanding of how it works. Thanks 297 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,680 for hanging out today with me, and I will see you next time.