Educators are reaching into their toolbox in an effort to adapt their instruction to a world where students can use ChatGPT to pull out a five-page essay in under an hour.

Teachers are working to make artificial intelligence (AI) a force for good in the classroom instead of an easy way to cheat as they balance teaching the new technology with honing students’ critical thinking skills.

“Even before the AI era, the most important grades that we'd give at the school that I led and when I was a teacher, were the in-class writing assignments,” said Adeel Khan, CEO and founder of MagicSchool and former school principal, noting the assignments worth the most are normally final exams or end-of-unit tests.

Khan predicts those sorts of exams that have no access to AI will be weighted more heavily for students’ grades in the future.

“So, if you're using AI for all of the formative assignments that are helping you practice to get to that final exam or that final writing test ... then it's going to be really hard to do it when you don't have AI in those moments,” he added.

The boom of generative AI began shortly after students got back in the classrooms after the pandemic, with educators going from banning ChatGPT in schools in 2023 to taking........

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