Today's Discussion: The Confession Moment

A student tells you they used AI on the paper you just graded. What is your honest first reaction?

For most teachers I talk to, the default is some flavor of "uh oh." Disappointment. The discipline question. Wondering if you missed the signs.

One MIT writing professor recently flipped that script and turned a wave of student confessions into the most productive month of his semester. Today's blog post walks through what he did, why it worked, and what any of us can borrow from it.

So here is the prompt for today's conversation:

Have you ever had a student confess to AI use? What did you do in the next 30 seconds? Looking back, would you do it differently now?

Drop your story below. The good, the awkward, the one you are still thinking about. The community gets sharper every time we share these honestly.