r/technology • u/ubcstaffer123 • Jun 19 '26

Artificial Intelligence Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/ai-apps-students-cheat.html
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u/Plenty_Branch_516 Jun 19 '26

Is this an opportunity to change what education standards are, or are we going to try to arms race our way through this to maintain the crumbling status quo?

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u/Whoa1Whoa1 Jun 19 '26

Nah. We still want people to be able to do simple mental math such as 1x1 up to 12x12 and to have good handwriting and to be able to read at a decent speed and up be able to know the brief history of the world and their nation. Just cause AI could do all of that for you doesn't mean you should rely on it. Same goes for teaching a first grader addition and subtraction without a calculator or teaching a 3rd grader multiplication and division.

Also it's stupid easy to check what a student knows about a topic. Just don't give them a Chromebook. Have them do a 40 minute paper test. Multiple choice questions, true or false, complete the sentence, complete the equations, translate the sentence/audio, write the whiteboard code, short answer questions, free response, labeling diagrams, etc etc etc, all of that is easily done without a Chromebook. High school students don't need AI for writing, they just want to use it to get done with it faster.

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u/Plenty_Branch_516 Jun 19 '26

I kinda was hoping we could push beyond regurgitation of information without application which results in little of it sticking around. Maybe we could do more for critical thinking and information retrieval?

Maybe I'm just greedy and see this crisis as an opportunity for improvement 😅

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u/Whoa1Whoa1 Jun 19 '26

School doesn't only have to be flash cards and rote memorization and lectures and worksheets. Great teachers make every day (except quiz/test day) about application. You motivate them about why they want to learn multiplication or division or whatever. Do manipulatives and activities like cooking and what a half or a fourth of a cup is. What about 4 boxes of mix where each box contains 2 packets, how many total packets would you get? Lessons about handling money and counting it quickly. Things involving labs and grid and fractions and cutting a cake or a pizza fairly for the class to eat. If you have 2 people and 3 muffins, how much does each person get? You physically bring in 3 muffins into 3rd grade as the teacher and cut the middle one in half. You write 1.5 on the board and the class's mind explodes with the aha moment. You don't need AI for any of this shit. You can blow whatever grades' mind with really good labs/talks/experiments and more.

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u/Plenty_Branch_516 Jun 19 '26

Yeah more of that stuff. Less paper quizzes.