“Gotcha!” to “Taught Ya!” Rethinking Assessments in the AI Era

Outline

I. Introduction/Accessing Relevant Knowledge (~ 5 mins.)

A. Spot the Bot (*Participants will compete to try to distinguish between bot and student writing)

II. The AI Divide in Education (~ 5 Mins)

A. Statistics on current teacher readiness vs. current knowledge worker experience
B. Addressing that Gap

*Peer-to-peer interaction to guess some of the statistics presented to engage the audience

III. What About Student Cheating? (15 Mins)
*Participants will follow steps to fool an AI detector

A. Statistics on Student Use
B. Why AI Detectors Don't Work (Demo)
C. Shift from "Gotcha! to "Taught Ya!"

IV. Unconventional Assessment Techniques That Value the Process Over the Final Product (15 mins)

A. Using Animated Intros
*Participants will create an Animated Intro Using Adobe Express

B. "Too-Short" Video Responses
*Participants will post a video discussion thread on Padlet and/or Screencastify

C. Zero Word Presentations
*Participants will get a template to adapt

D. Play-Doh Sculptures
*Participants will get a template to adapt

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with practical strategies (and ready-to-use templates) for enhancing student engagement and fostering a culture of ethical AI use. They will get, plug-and-play, classroom-tested, and ready-to-implement activities that rethink assessments for the AI era through fostering creativity, digital storytelling, and other unconventional techniques focused on the learning process (higher order thinking skills) rather than merely valuing the end product.

Supporting research

https://www.lacoe.edu/content/dam/lacoeedu/documents/technologyservices/tlss/LACOEGenAIGuidelines.pdf

https://news.microsoft.com/2024/05/08/microsoft-and-linkedin-release-the-2024-work-trend-index-on-the-state-of-ai-at-work/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bS8_VXPpxZq_mIhhrbgOqlAdTvK_WZz1/view?usp=sharing

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-non-native-english-writers

https://catlintucker.com/2024/10/ai-resistant-tasks/?mcp_token=eyJwaWQiOjEyMzAyMjEsInNpZCI6MTEzNzQ5MDYzOSwiYXgiOiI5OGM3NGVlNmU2NzA2M2M5Njc3ZDE4MzZkZTc0MjRkOSIsInRzIjoxNzI3ODQ4MzEwLCJleHAiOjE3MzAyNjc1MTB9._QsksF0boM8Oto75I6E0LApvD4CMEJS2zof9xleMd08