This is a great approach not only to working around AI, but also a great strategy to increase student engagement and reduce student apathy. In my experience when students can see real world or authentic value in an assignment, they tend to care more and give more effort toward the assignment. For example, during my economics unit I have the students do a "shark tank" like project where they create a product or a business to pitch to their classmates to invest in. The students are way more engaged in that project than when I lecture about the role than when they are lectured about the role that entrepreneurs play in the economy because it makes the topic more "real world" and meaningful.

I truly do not think banning AI is the way to go in schools. I think that it is our responsibility as educators to prepare students to go out into the world. The fact is, AI is going to be a part of their lives in careers regardless of what field they choose to go into. I by no means am saying that we should let kids use AI whenever and in any situation, but I do think we need to embrace it and teach students how to responsibly use it. This will not be easy, and we will run into road blocks, but I do feel that outright banning it is not the way to go.

This is a topic that has been a discussion point for the teachers at my school. We know that AI is here and the students are using it, but many are concerned with students using it to cheat. A solution that some proposed is mentioned here in this article, with using AI detectors. But, as the article mentions there is a problem with reliability of these models. The more I learn about these tools, the more I feel that they can not be put out there as a catch all solution to students using AI to cheat. It seems like it has the potential for false positives, leading to unearned consequences for students.