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