I heard an in interview with a head-teacher earlier. It revealed that it seems like most students' essays are AI assisted these days and it is so convincing that the teachers are unable to tell. But I believe AI is able to tell if a piece of work is original or not, pretty quickly. AI gives me a quick and helpful summary of my mood and style if I produce 750 Morning Words daily. I'm sure more detailed analyses are available.
What would help, I believe, is for the start of each term to begin with essay day. Every pupil who will expect to submit a piece of written work for assessment during the term has to provide an example of, say, 1000 words of writing. These words should be written in a supervised classroom situation without any external assistance, perhaps on a tablet without internet access to save time for the teachers in the future.
Pupils could leave as soon as they finished. Yeah. Make it a bit competitive. In fact the faster the task is achieved the more likely it is that the results will be helpful.
Very minimal instructions should be given. The writing can be on any subject. It could be a story, a stream of consciousness (as this almost is), a comment piece of journalism or a narrative. Or something else.
The point should be that AI can then bank the piece and make an assessment of future work based on whether the student can write to that standard or not.
The piece would not be marked or assessed in any way towards any examination or course work. But after a few terms a style assessment could be built up. You could see the student making progress, or otherwise (which might help with interventions in the future), and you could compare future written work with the style displayed at the start of term. Has the student made unbelievable progress in grammar, style or vocabulary?
Perhaps some teachers or IT specialists might run with this, or tell me why it's stupid. I have more kites.
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