New post: When Students Confess They Used AI, You Are Holding a Teaching Moment
An MIT fiction professor walked into class one Tuesday, asked his students to write by hand with no devices, and what followed changed how he teaches.
One by one, his students started confessing what they had been turning in for months. Most of them had been using AI. Some for ideas. Some for outlines. Some for entire essays.
The instinct in that moment is to read it as a discipline event. The teacher who made the difference read it as something else: the first authentic engagement of the semester. A curriculum opportunity walking through the door.
This week's post unpacks what he did next, why the "gloriously flawed" student sentence still matters, and three concrete moves any teacher can make Monday morning to turn confession into curriculum.
What is your default reaction when a student admits to AI use? Drop a comment below.