Why I Am Not Threatened By ChatGPT…At Least Not In My Classroom

As it turns out, many of my classes are hard to cheat in.

This is because many of my classes engage my students in projects that they work on with their own hands, and that bear fruit (often literal fruit) that is easy to judge.

For instance, students working in our campus gardens know they can’t cheat if they want their plants to live. We work the gardens together and we know how the plants are doing. If the students don’t do the work, they won’t have produce…