How teachers are remaking classrooms for the AI age
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-10-28 10:31
Oct 28 (Reuters) - In the AI capital of the world, sixth-grade humanities teacher Tristen Chang is designing her classroom so students can't rely on chatbots. Starting last year, Chang did away with take-home essays and began using oral exams to test students at her San Francisco school. She asks students 15 questions about character, plot, theme and metaphor, which they can answer in as little as five minutes. "There's been a long march of technology changing teaching, but AI is the most drastic," Chang said. "Everything's out the window." As generative AI becomes ubiquitous, US middle and high school teachers are rethinking how they assess learning. Educators are assigning less take-home work, increasing in-class writing and discussion, and redesigning assignments to measure students' thinking rather than simply their answers, according to Reuters interviews with a dozen teachers ...
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