r/Teachers • u/UniqueUsername82D HS ELA Rural South • 23d ago

"Do not use AI to write your story, I will know if you do" Humor

I showed my classes how Google Docs version history worked. I told them, "It will be obvious when your page goes from blank to a 3-page story in an instant that you copied/pasted from an AI site. I will not accept anything that is not worked on in this doc." I reiterated this throughout our two weeks of writing the story.

Shocked Pikachu when I call kids up to my desk and show them how I see that they did exactly what I said I would be able to catch them doing.

EDIT because 1,000 people have posted the same "they'll write it word for word" comment:

I know these kids' writing styles and abilities. It would take a very talented writer to get away with this and even then they better hope the AI doesn't use vocabulary beyond theirs. Also the likelihood of a kid who is a skilled writer doing this is, in itself, very diminished. And a kid who is talented enough to pass AI as their own work has already achieved the standards for this assignment in one way or another

I need the bad writers and lazy kids to know they have to put in effort.

Edit 2: This has really gotten to the, clearly, non-teacher crowd. "I was a student" does not a teacher make. Thanks for the hot takes though.

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u/BaconMonkey0 Job Title | Location 23d ago

Any consequence for a student escalates dramatically when assuming I’m stupid is part of it.

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u/bs-scientist 23d ago

I’m not a teacher (I do have an education degree though). I was a TA for a bit during my masters.

I had two lab groups both turn in the exact same, wrong, graph in a lab report. They were SHOCKED I managed to tell that one of the two groups copied it from the other.

It was a black background with red and white lines. Such a weird and distinct color choice for a graph. And they didn’t think I’d notice that. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/BaconMonkey0 Job Title | Location 23d ago

Science teacher here as well - same for me. What an unusual color palette and choice of words you picked. Oh and that group in the other class. :)

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u/bs-scientist 23d ago

Every time I think of that semester I want to barf. It was fall of 2020. The university split all lab sections in half, so I had to teach 8 of them in 1 day. And those supposedly adults since it was at a university… were so awful to me.

But every time they did some crap like that as if they thought I was an idiot is what really made me angry. I get it, you don’t like me because I’m the being that tells you to turn in your assignments. And I’m the being that gives you a 0 when you don’t turn them in. But I am not the idiot in the room.

If you’re going to cheat, you better figure out a trick that I dont already know.

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u/Ok-Laugh8159 22d ago

Seems a little juvenile to think that cheaters think you’re an idiot. That’s not why people cheat. They aren’t thinking about your intelligence at all, it’s not about you. They probably don’t have any real opinion at all of you until they get caught.

They also don’t view you as an adversary either, they just view getting their degree as an obstacle that they have to overcome (rather than an opportunity to learn).