How do HS ELA teachers navigate students’ plagiarism with AI?
I have taught English to college freshman overseas, and just accepted a HS ELA position in the States. I’m returning to the classroom full time after scaling back for 5 years, but have been subbing for the last year.
The overuse of tech and AI seems to have greatly shifted how ELA is taught. I’m worried that most of my time will be spent on deciphering if students’ writing was AI generated. Are there actually efficient and reliable programs that aren’t incredibly time consuming for the teacher?
Seems to me the best way around it is to have students do as much in-class writing as possible. My classes will be 90 minute blocks, so I think it may be doable. I’d even go old school and offer paper thesauruses. But how are teachers assigning research papers and not getting everything copied and pasted?
Has AI made teaching writing and ELA miserable?
Btw I’m all for teaching students how to effectively use AI, but I don’t see how that can be added to a course that’s full of standards to meet. High schools should be including entire courses about how to use AI, if they haven’t already.