Redefining Authenticity in Education

Schools spent 200 years teaching kids to memorize facts and prove they know things,

but AI just made that completely worthless. Nearly 7,000 UK students got caught

using AI to cheat last year, triple the previous rate. Here's the twist:

cheating rates haven't actually increased, students just swapped copying from friends to copying from

ChatGPT. Teachers are using AI detectors that wrongly accuse innocent students,

destroying trust in the process. The real crisis isn't cheating, it's that we're

teaching an entire generation that appearing authentic matters more than being authentic.

We're not preparing kids for tests anymore, we're preparing them to verify what's real in a world