Teaching in the Time of ChatGPT

Original link This Ars Technica article has been breezing around the Internet for a couple days and I finally had some time to sit and read it this morning. It's full of very quotable nuggets that, more than anything, communicate the frustration teachers all over the world are feeling. But since the appearance of ChatGPT, the instructor’s job isn’t just to teach the subject and frantically attempt to keep every student’s plate spinning. Increasingly, it’s to moonlight as a detective and prosecutor because students without the motivation to do the work don’t have to skip it anymore. This kind of sums up the essay - there's an enhanced air of suspicion about every piece of work that comes in from students these days. My situation is quite different - I'm face to face with a much smaller number of students. However, using standards based grading, I still look at a lot of student work. I have to see evidence of understanding - can they do the thing described by the current learning goal?…