10/07/2026
I have a senior graduating this year and she and several other students and moms have been telling me how so many teachers and professors (yes, even composition teachers!) have encouraged them to use AI with no guardrails.
At Maple Key we are old school in that we compose with paper, pencils, and Word documents. We have students who desire to be better writers and communicators through seeing what they are saying on paper.
Please read this incredible reflection on the human-ness of grading papers from Elissa. Covenant College is lucky to have a professor who cares this much.
"One positive thing to come out of the current panic over AI and its uses and abuses in higher education is that I am more appreciative--really!--of every human-written paper I get to read.
An essay that is carefully crafted with a distinctive voice and point of view? Grateful.
But also…an essay that folds onto itself before veering sharply in a new direction? Grateful. An essay that scatters sharp observations throughout but never builds them into an argument? Grateful. An essay that strains and stretches to reach the finish line, but assumes too much of the reader? Grateful.
Because if a human labored to wrap words around their ideas, then there is actually someone I can come alongside in that work. In a world where it’s possible to easily manufacture a paper that could tick boxes, I am acutely aware of the risk students take when they submit their own work for scrutiny. To give me their own words can be a gift…even if they don’t necessarily recognize it as such."
(And an audiobook giveaway, so read to the end!)
