Human Intelligence, AI, and the Problem I Think We’re Missing
I can vividly remember teaching my AP English class in 1999 when I first heard of “Turnitin.com”; my first thought was “how am I going to scan all of these pages into that thing?” Back then I graded papers on a first pass with my trusty No. 2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. Now what was I going to do? For years I used my pencil as a key aid in the writing process with my students. It was collaborative because we worked together – I would suggest ideas an reframe sentences and thoughts to model writing in line with whatever rubric my assignment called for. Often times students adopted my suggestions whole-cloth, other times we would workshop different stylistic choices. My students and I shared in the rhetorical process. If they chose to use my margin note “try something like this,” are they not ...









