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Odds are, you can’t tell whether this sentence was written by artificial intelligence. Schools across Canada face the same problem. And happily, some are finding simple solutions.
Manitoba’s Franco-Manitoban School Division (Division scolaire franco-manitobaine) recently issued new AI guidelines for teachers: to only assign optional homework and reading in grades kindergarten to 6, and limit homework in grades 7 to 12. The reason? The proliferation of generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT make it very difficult for teachers, juggling a heavy workload, to discern genuine student work from AI-generated text. In fact, according to the school’s superintendent, Alain Laberge, “Most of the [after-school assignment] submissions, we find, are coming from AI, to be quite honest.”…