The Hechinger Report

Students try using AI to write scholarship essays — with little luck

High school students who use artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT to write college application or scholarship essays may not have the best chance at being selected, experts say, because the ...

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

A pilot study analyzing college students’ writing with AI shows an interactive process, from brainstorming to editing the ...
The Hechinger Report

How AI can teach kids to write – not just cheat

Experts say that, if done right, generative AI could be a useful tool in helping students improve their writing. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Want Your Students to Write Better? Assign Video Essays.

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...
Education Week

AI Can Mimic Students’ Writing Styles. How Are Teachers Supposed to Catch Cheaters Now?

When Jeremy Sell saw the word “poignant” spelled correctly in an essay, the jig was up. Sell, a high school English teacher in California, already suspected that his student had used a generative AI ...