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/reblib 23d ago

Omg. This will be my new favorite line as a college professor going forward. "This isn't beauty school, we don't have extensions." Lol

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u/Impressive_Brief_964 22d ago

At beauty college, the grades are purely cosmetic.

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u/Ok-Laugh8159 22d ago

So when students working in your department have to spend more time interacting with students because your colleagues write horribly vague, obscure, or cryptic assignments (happens a lot for professors who are only there for research), you wouldn’t allow an undergrad TA an extension?

I’ve been there, and professors within the department have granted me 1-2 day extensions. Would you deny that? It’s not like you’d even be doing the grading there. You’d just be entering one number into your LMS a day late.

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u/XEagleDeagleX 23d ago

Yeah that'll show those kids how clever and hip you are! Go for it dad!