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The Undergraduate Essay Is About to Die
Orchestrating Authentic Student Writing in the Age of AI
“Assigning traditional essays is unethical in the age of AI,” say Scott Carlson and Matthew Brophy in The Chronicle of Higher Education . That’s because the use of AI tools to write essays with little or no student effort has become a “subversive epidemic,” with the true victims being... See more
“Assigning traditional essays is unethical in the age of AI,” say Scott Carlson and Matthew Brophy in The Chronicle of Higher Education . That’s because the use of AI tools to write essays with little or no student effort has become a “subversive epidemic,” with the true victims being... See more
The Marshall Memo Admin - Issues
Artificial intelligence is already killing off important parts of the human experience. But one of its most consequential murders—so far—is the demise of a longstanding rite of passage for students worldwide: an attempt to synthesize complex information and condense it into compelling analytical prose. It’s a training ground for the most... See more
Brian Klaas • The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
It’s official. Traditional assessment tools like homework essays and papers were designed for a different era. So how do you gauge students’ comprehension and critical thinking when AI can produce a convincing essay in seconds?