Education needs to stop Banning and Punishing AI Use

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Encourage students to use AI tools openly instead

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Too many educators and institutions are building a Maginot line to catch AI-generated work in student submissions. This is a foolish waste of effort that can only fail to reliably detect AI, and at the same time, it harms student growth.

Educators should encourage students to use AI for maximal benefit instead.

In the real-world economy, the winners will be using AI. Many already are.

The amazing recent wave of AI is already better at writing, drawing, and coding than the average wage earner. And these AI tools, in many cases, work for free or for pennies.

Think of these AI tools as arms in an economic conflict; people, no matter how smart or gifted, will soon be slaughtered when they come up against a competitor that has mastered the productivity gains of using a prompt to create a sizable chunk of a product.

Ancient Internet History

Way back in the year 2000, I was a part-time college professor teaching Java programming courses. Google search was still new enough that not everyone had tried it.

There were educators at the time who sounded an alarm: students might use this search technology to find answers and examples to use in their own work. And there were efforts to stop it. Seem familiar in some way?

I went in a different direction — I made search and result-copy-paste an integral part of my classes. Students were tested to make sure they were maximizing the benefits of quickly finding answers using Google search ( the best at that time ) to create their Java programs.

I equipped them to be successful in the new reality.

Today it’s obvious that is the way to build programs. You can’t compete without good search skills.

But search skills are no longer enough.