Abstract
There have been many successes for technology application in education, from the most basic document spelling check to the more sophisticated online learning platforms. Contextual pressures and human weakness have broken through ideals of an electronic age, digital age, quantum age, with pervasive imposter learning. The purpose of this work is to underscore today’s crisis of e-cheating and the continued lack of effective institutional policies to keep up with the technological creativity of e-cheating. What is going on in the bigger picture of life that propagates this tech phenomena? Can we US educators steer the curriculum ship better when we are already paddling our hardest while universities reduce resources, erase departments, navigate threats? From the point of view of senior US educators in higher education, we pull from experience and literature to discuss: 1) keeping ideals of leveling the information field for all citizens; 2) commercial tech “gremlins” (e.g. chatbots, paper mills) growing endlessly; 3) student angst, emotions, and decision-making about their learning; 4) context and questionable ethics among political and economic leaders-role models; 5) the extreme role of panopticon-like, institutional monitoring for control of persons and materials; 6) revisiting classic paper and pencil booklet objective tests and authentic human essays; 7) educators selecting more curriculum apps to steer students better; 8) the consequences of doing nothing; 9) the crucial need for coordinated, all-academic unit policies of significance. Overall, we must continue to manage e-cheating, AI gremlins, while we interconnect with and inform national and global educators/scholars.
Presenters
Graciela Quinones-RodriguezPsychiatric Social Worker-Mental Health Clinician, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Quinones Consulting and Psychotherapy, Connecticut, United States Mary Helen Millham
Contributing Faculty, School of Communication, University of Hartford, Connecticut, United States Diana Rios
Faculty Communication and EL Instituto: Latino-Latin American Caribbean Studies, Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, United States
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E-CHEATING, WRITING, BOTS, STUDENT, ANGST, CURRICULUM, MONITORING, LEADER, ETHICS, US
