So this fall, he plans to scrap many of his writing assignments, including the experiential-learning one that was once so meaningful to many of his students. “Because of those people at the bottom of the scale making it impossible for me to do my work,” he says of AI users, “all those people at the upper end of the scale will never have that good experience.” Some of those better students might even have chosen to become religious-studies majors.
It is not fair to the students who want to learn and develop their writing skills. There have always been students who will cheat and there always will be, just because there is a new way to do it does not mean that we have to scrap good assignments.