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Stop using AI detectors: what works instead

Why detection software is the wrong basis for an integrity decision, the three kinds of evidence that hold up instead, and what to say when a parent raises false positives.

In preparation

Marking the process instead of the product, and what the 40-40-20 weighting looks like in a real Grade 10 course. Running an oral defence in a class of thirty without losing a week. Writing an AI use policy for a course outline that students will follow.

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George O'Toole

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George O'Toole is a retired Head of Department with over 35 years experience in secondary English classrooms, a former Educational Technology Coach, and a former instructor with the Queen's University Faculty of Education. He holds a Master of Education in Language and Literacy from the University of Toronto and writes from Whitby, Ontario.

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