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Hempfield Area Senior High School teacher Denine Frye kicked off a recent 10th-grade literature class by asking students to write a short journal entry as Holden Caulfield of “The Catcher in The Rye” — using AI chatbots. She prompted them to evaluate the tool’s accuracy and then write their own analysis.
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“I had to reinvent the wheel, and that’s why we do a lot of projects, and we do a lot of Socratic seminars, and we do a lot of reflections, where they have to actually show their knowledge in the reflection,” she said. “They can’t just go to ChatGPT and copy and paste ([link removed]) .”
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