{"id":28627,"date":"2026-08-03T15:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:57:33","slug":"ai-for-students-to-check-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28627","title":{"rendered":"AI for students to check their work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want my students using AI to do their homework. That would defeat much of the purpose of learning to do things for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But I am starting to think that it would be beneficial for students to use AI to help them evaluate their work. Given that AI is (at least in its current form) essentially a patchwork gathering of the expertise of many humans, students could benefit from what those many human experts think of their work.<\/p>\n<p>The trick will be to figure out how to invite students to use that resource without implicitly inviting them to use AI in the work itself. I wonder whether it would be possible to design homework assignments in a way that encourages the former while discouraging the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want my students using AI to do their homework. That would defeat much of the purpose of learning to do things for yourself. But I am starting to think that it would be beneficial for students to use AI to help them evaluate their work. Given that AI is (at least in its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI for students to check their work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28628,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions\/28628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}