For teachers

You didn’t ask for this. A tool arrived that can produce a competent five-paragraph essay in nine seconds, and the professional development session about it was forty minutes long and mostly about the district’s licence agreement.

This section skips the panic and the evangelism. The premise: you can’t detect your way out of this, and you were never going to. The evidence on AI detectors is worse than most vendors admit, and the students most likely to be wrongly flagged are the ones with the least ability to defend themselves. What works is changing what you ask for.

So: designing assignments AI can’t just finish — the practical moves, ranked by how much prep they cost you. Writing a classroom AI policy — with a template you can adapt in ten minutes. Detecting AI work honestly — what a flag is worth and what to do with one. Rubrics in the AI era — because a rubric that rewards fluent prose now rewards a prompt. And using AI for feedback — the one place the technology gives you time back rather than taking it.

Everything here assumes your scarcest resource is time, not enthusiasm.