You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead.
Emma Whitford
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs12/17/2025·Read paper
Abstract
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI. Blue books made a comeback in 2025. In an effort to prevent students from feeding final essay prompts into ChatGPT, some professors asked their students to sit down and write in-person in the lined, sky-blue booklets that served as the college standard for written assessments in the pre-laptop era.
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