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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 2, 20242 min read
AI is winning the war on cheating
A majority of students use AI to help write papers, and AI detection tools remain unreliable.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 5, 20242 min read
The college pitch: How students write personal essays
Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays, according to...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20242 min read
If teachers ban AI for students, can they use it for grading?
Can teachers ban AI for students' writing but use it for grading?
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 23, 20232 min read
AI will change testing: Can it grade essays?
Number 2 pencils and fill-in-the-bubble are out, writes Matteo Wong in The Atlantic. Standardized tests are going digital. In a few...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Let AI do it: High schoolers don't need to write essays any more
"Good-bye and good riddance" to teaching students to write essays, writes Daniel Herman in The Atlantic. Herman, who teaches English at a...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20232 min read
No tests, inflated grades and now AI is writing admissions essays (instead of Mom)
Colleges are trying to figure out whether to ban chatbots or see AI as a way to level the playing field for students who don't have Mom...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Back to handwriting?
I don't write much by hand these days, and when I do it's a chore. Even writing a few lines on Christmas cards seems like hard work....
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 11, 20222 min read
ChatGPT writes better than most students: What next?
Is writing over? The ability to write clearly and cogently has been seen as "a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill,"...
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