College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong—and not like them

College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong—and not like them

Generative AI has become a part of everyday student life in Canada. While institutions focus on misconduct and detection, a deeper shift is happening, one that concerns identity.

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

(NYT) – High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. The New York Times heard from nearly 400 college and high school educators who responded to a callout about how generative A.I. is changing writing instruction. Almost all described a deep rethinking of how to teach writing — and whether it still matters, since A.I. has become a better writ…

How can AI change students’ writing identity?

AI’s “smooth” writing shift is becoming an identity issue College students are increasingly noticing a paradox in their own work: when generative AI helps revise or “polish” their writing, the result often sounds stronger, but less like them. The reports emerging from Canadian campuses point to a…