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The IB Diploma: Show Me What You Know

Why would we choose to be disadvantaged? I was talking to a group of Grade 12 students last week about how they were feeling about AI. More specifically, we were talking about the IB Diploma and the increasingly complicated business of deciding what students should and shouldn’t use gen-AI to do. The question wasn’t whether […]

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Is It Time to Turn It In?

AI detection is dead. Long live authentication. I came through airport security yesterday. He let me keep my flip-flops on, but he was determined to have my fabric belt and watch off before I dutifully laid out my laptop, chargers, liquids, glasses, coins, and mints in the tray, raised my arms to the correct angles […]

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AI Breaks The Psychological Contract of Essay Writing

Another invitation arrived this weekend (compliments of the bots feeding my social media feed) offering me another packaged AI solution to mark all my student essays. Here’s the title: The #1 AI Essay Grader for Teachers And here’s the hook: Reduce grading time by 80%. Grade your entire class’s essays in 2 minutes or less and […]