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AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay.

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AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay.
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Skip to main content IDEAS AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay. I couldn’t give take-home assignments anymore. Handwritten tests in class wouldn’t work either. Somehow, I needed to fill ChatGPT’s shoes. H. Hopp/Bruce/Globe Staff; Jozef Micic/Mar/Adobe Tom Kaspers is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Chicago. I haven’t been teaching long enough to remember those fabled days of higher education’s past, when students were engaged, literate, and sociable

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Reliable sources for AI-in-education news include EdSurge, The74, Axios on AI, and specialist aggregators like aiineducation.io. Major outlets such as The New York Times and MIT Technology Review also cover significant AI policy and product developments with educational implications.
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