A Houston County teacher says she noticed an increase in students using Chat GPT to write papers. A program called Writable helps her detect which ones.
HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — Artificial intelligence apps are spreading to classrooms across the country, but so are the new tools to help manage it.
At Houston County High School, American literature teacher Madeline Peacock said she allows students to use the Chat GPT app to come up with ideas, statistics and better sentence structure, but their final work must reflect their original thoughts.
“If they know how to use it properly, it’s being done well, and if they’re just using it to get out of the work, then we’re not seeing it being done well,” Peacock said.
She said last year she and other teachers noticed a huge increase in the number of students using Chat GPT to write papers. A program called Writable helps her detect which ones.
“Once …