Kicking the Copier #1: Don't Try to Catch Your Students Cheating

This is the first episode “Kicking the Copier”: a series of shorter solo episodes where we offer not a solution necessarily but rather an idea for teachers, akin to a copier kick, based on our own experience and thinking. These won’t be long, under 10 minutes, but we hope they can be valuable in offering ideas and also potentially beginning conversations around topics worth having conversations about. Because sometimes kicking the broken copier works, right? 

Today’s topic: a reflection by Marcus on why being overly concerned with trying to catch students cheating—particularly with the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence tools in education—might not be the best mindset for teachers to hold.

As always, thanks to the following: Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.

Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro. 

Email thoughts to thebrokencopier@substack.com.

Thanks for listening!