moorethanmachine

Let’s start by taking a look at what the first pillar of an AI-resistant assessment looks like, and that first of the five pillars is presence. In the absolute simplest terms, functionally speaking, given what modern technology can do, the only way you can guarantee that a student actually did the work they supposedly did is if they actually did it in front of you. In the short term, things like videos showing them doing the work might still seem viable, but even those are rapidly losing...

Let’s take a look at the second pillar of AI-resistant assessment: Production. When we talk about production in the context of the Five Pillars of AI-Resistant Academics, we must be clear about what we mean. Production is the thing itself. It is the academic artifact, action, or performance that the student ultimately brings forward to demonstrate their learning. Presence is being there for it. Personalization is what they bring of themselves into it. Permutation is the shifting of that...

Taking a brief break from the series on the pillars of AI-resistant assessment, I wanted to make a quick segue into an observation I recently had and ask whether anyone else has been noticing the same thing. Recently we had a teacher workday, and I was going through and grading my students’ latest writing project. The assignment was to write a poem with the focus of the prompt being “Home is where the heart is.” In short, students had to write a poem about the place that feels most like home...