Teachers: Can we embrace AI?

Michele Bigley
6 min readJan 26, 2023

Recently in a faculty meeting at my university, our academic integrity representative, I’ll call her T., said her biggest job is talking teachers down from the ledge. T. explained that educators get so worked up about plagiarism, as if a student buying a paper online, or having some bot do their work has anything to do with their opinion about us.

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Michele Bigley

Award-winning writer specializing in regenerative travel, environmental solutions and parenting. Michele’s writing a book about mothering in the Anthropocene.