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AI essays aren't the problem - we're grading the wrong things entirely

Building Great Tech · Is AI Breaking Our Education System? - With Shannon Seaver

“also, is the essay written for the correct person that's listening to the correct audience?”

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also, is the essay written for the correct person that's listening to the correct audience? How do we should be grading on those things now. Is this geared towards the right social media outlet? Is I mean, how would you use it in business now? And so now that we are not having to write our complete essays anymore, you need to be able to write go through it. Is it hallucinating?

About this clip

Shannon Seaver argues that educators need to completely rethink how they evaluate student writing in the AI era. Instead of focusing on essay completion, teachers should assess whether students understand audience targeting, platform appropriateness, and can identify AI hallucinations.

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Presents a concrete framework for how educators should adapt their grading criteria to remain relevant in an AI-powered world.

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