For assessments to play this role, they must be aligned with a learning objective and constructed in a way that allows them to determine whether the mastery threshold has been met.

Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with the following opening paragraph: The construct of “learning styles” is ...

Write me a 100-word essay in the voice of a high school student explaining why I would love to attend Dartmouth to pursue a double major in biology and computer science.

She uses the example of having students who are learning how to write practice writing words in shaving cream. It’s messy, but it’s an activity that most children will want to do.

We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.