VER-XIV-0014
“I'm a teacher and half my students submit AI-generated work.”
The assignment didn't fail. The model failed. If a student can replace the assignment with AI and still get credit, the assignment was measuring output, not thinking. The best teachers in the AI age won't fight the tool, they'll redesign the work to be impossible without genuine understanding. This isn't a crisis. It's an invitation to teach differently.
Your Practice
Redesign one assignment this week so that the process matters more than the product. Require students to show their thinking, drafts, decisions, reflections. Better yet: have them use AI openly as a tool, then critique and improve its output. Teach them to build with, not hide under.
The Architects
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch, Plutarch, Moralia, 'On Listening to Lectures' (De auditu / De recta ratione audiendi), section 48