Ep 7 ⎸ The AI Elephant in the Room: Cheating, Learning and Preparing Students

AI isn't just the elephant in the room anymore—it's in your students' backpacks, browsers, and late-night essay drafts. So how do we shift from "catching cheaters" to preparing students for real learning in an AI-driven world? In this episode of Schoolwide Download, Dave Clark and Robin Szary reframe the "perfect essay" as a design problem for 2025 and share simple, practical moves you can use right away. You'll hear: ✅ Why detection tools aren't enough—and what to focus on instead ✅ How to draw clear, equitable lines for AI use in the classroom ✅ Ways to redesign tasks so student thinking is visible ✅ Practical strategies like adding a one-line disclosure, swapping one homework for process evidence, and running a "Check the Bot" routine with your students 💡 Try This Tomorrow: Use one quick AI move—add a disclosure line to your next assignment or invite students to run their draft through a "Check the Bot" reflection. Leave with three anchors for your AI-ready classroom: Make thinking visible Teach disclosure Design tasks for the AI era Resources & Links: 🌐 Learn more → bcesc.org/schoolwidedownload 📅 Register for the Schoolwide AI Conference → bcesc.org/schoolwideai