How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

Cheshire Academy trains teachers in general AI literacy and uses a traffic-light system to clarify when students may use AI, while encouraging critical reflection through AI-focused assignments. Teachers mainly use AI for planning and resource creation, but human review remains …

As students embrace AI, universities scramble to keep up

AI is forcing universities to redesign teaching and assessment so students must demonstrate independent reasoning through supervised, oral, and collaborative work.

The deeper challenge is preserving education’s human purpose: developing judgment, character, intellectual resilience, and responsibility, not merely delivering information.…

Universities Experiment with Hidden Grades

The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts is trying out something new this coming term: a dual grading system in which professors give students ordinary letter grades based on the quality of their work, but what …

This Essay is 10% AI Generated

People still deeply value authorship, even as AI challenges traditional ideas about who “creates” a text; labeling something “AI-generated” now serves a social function. It also suggests AI prose has recognizable stylistic patterns, overconfident connections, odd phrasing, and synthetic “authorial”