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Hacker News<p>What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07</span><span class="invisible">/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIDestroyingWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIDestroyingWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CollegeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutureOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIImpact</span></a></p>
Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉<p>I'm teaching first year writing this semester. Their first major paper was due last week and four out of fourteen clearly used AI to write their papers. This after I had them write repeated drafts by hand in class so I could get a sense of their actual style. But the final version was typed, and that's when they had the computer do it.</p><p>It's obvious to me that none of them could have written what they turned in, but this is hard to explain to students and it's not great to challenge them without evidence. Of course the AI never writes the same thing twice, so the submissions aren't reproducible. TurnItIn is reprehensible and not very accurate, so that's out. But it turns out that asking ChatGPT to "finish this paragraph" along with a suspicious first sentence from their papers gets close enough to convince them to admit that they used it. </p><p>It returns different sentences and mostly similar or identical words, but the flow of ideas and the content is pretty much the same. This worked reliably. They're all new to college and I'm opposed to it anyway, so I'm not willing to report them, but they're all redoing the assignment.</p><p>Oh also, in order to encourage them to take the risk of doing their own writing I'm only grading them on whether they turn in all the assignments, including drafts and revisions, so there's nothing to gain grade wise by using AI, but I guess the temptation was too much. 🤷🏻</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstYearWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstYearWriting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollegeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeWriting</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurnItIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurnItIn</span></a></p>
traviseross<p>As a college professor, I have no interest in trying to catch AI cheaters. The arms race between LLMs and AI detectors misses the point. </p><p>I created a new statement on AI usage in my courses. </p><p>Now if I can just get them to read the syllabus...</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/syntheticreasoning/p/why-i-have-no-interest-in-catching?r=366lm6&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/syntheti</span><span class="invisible">creasoning/p/why-i-have-no-interest-in-catching?r=366lm6&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/college" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>college</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/collegewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collegewriting</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/highereducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highereducation</span></a></p>
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Mark C Marino<p>Reminder: Feb. 2 USC is hosting a free online symposium about teaching writing. I will be running a workshop on using generative AI in the writing classroom at 11am pst. Come join. Org by Tamara Luque Black &amp; Elizabeth Durst</p><p><a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-program/2024-advanced-writing-symposium/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-p</span><span class="invisible">rogram/2024-advanced-writing-symposium/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teachingwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachingwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collegewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collegewriting</span></a></p>
Mark C Marino<p>Feb. 2 USC is hosting a free online symposium about teaching writing. I will be running a workshop on using generative AI in the writing classroom at 11am pst. Come join. Org by Tamara Black &amp; Elizabeth Durst</p><p><a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-program/2024-advanced-writing-symposium/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-p</span><span class="invisible">rogram/2024-advanced-writing-symposium/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teachingwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachingwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collegewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collegewriting</span></a></p>
Ryan Randall<p>For my first "weekly assemblage" post of the new year, I enthuse quite a bit about this week's "<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and Teaching <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CollegeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeWriting</span></a>" session of the Future Trends Forum ( hosted by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.education/@bryanalexandee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bryanalexandee</span></a></span> ) <a href="https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-assemblage/wa-2024-week-01" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ryanpatrickrandall.com/weekly-</span><span class="invisible">assemblage/wa-2024-week-01</span></a></p><p>There's also mentions of my site's home page redesign and the semester that starts tomorrow. </p><p>Plus, I should now have the Giscus comments loading "preferred color scheme" correctly! Cheers if you feel like testing that section out! <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/weekNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weekNotes</span></a></p>
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Mark C Marino<p>Meet CoachTutor a bot I made through Poe.com that offers feedback on writing... for my college writing course.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machineassistedwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machineassistedwriting</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teachingwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachingwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collegewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collegewriting</span></a></p>
Ken<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@Jelaniya" class="u-url mention">@<span>Jelaniya</span></a></span> saw your keynote at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OregonStateUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OregonStateUniversity</span></a> 🟧⬛🦫 on Wednesday evening for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> and in honor of Dr. King. Thank you for your insightful words and perspective. I hope you enjoyed your time in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oregon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CRTbans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CRTbans</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ApBansFlorida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ApBansFlorida</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CollegeWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CollegeWriting</span></a></p>