A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

Unfortunately, this kind of story will continue to be a popular one in newspapers and magazines, garnering lots of clicks. It feeds into the "everything is different now" sort of desperate helplessness people seem primed to adopt with respect to AI sometimes.

Obviously the answer to testing and grading is to do it in the classroom. If a computer is required, it can't connect to the internet.

Caught with a cellphone, you fail the test. Caught twice you fail the class.

The non-story beatings will continue until morale and common sense improve.

From The New York Times 1996, the internet is ruining education:

https://archive.is/qTAXR

It's an easy win for a journalist.

I mean, it kind of did...

Look at our political leaders now vs in the 1990s as an example of how poorly educated we are now