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Found a couple articles about blunting AI's impact on education (got them off of Audrey Watters' blog, for the record).
The first is a New York Times guest essay by NYU vice provost Clay Shirky, which recommends "moving away from take-home assignments and essays and toward [...] assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time."
The second is an article by Kate Manne calling for professors to prevent cheating via AI, which details her efforts in doing so:
Manne does note the problems with this (outing disabled students, class time spent writing, and difficulties in editing, rewriting, and make-up work), but still believes "it is better, on balance, to take this approach rather than risk a significant proportion of students using AI to write their essays."
what worked for me teaching an undergrad course last year was to have
it's a completion grade after all) and i let students know that if they wanted direct feedback they could bring their solutions to office hours
it ended up working pretty well. an added benefit was that my TAs didn't have to deal with the nightmare of grading 120 very poorly written homeworks every four weeks. my students also stopped obsessing about the grades they would receive on their homeworks and instead focused on ~~learning~~ the grades they would receive on their exams
however, at the k-12 level, it feels like a much harder problem to tackle. parental involvement is the only solution i can think of, and that's already kind of a nightmare (at least here in the us)