Generative AI is changing the education landscape — and a new book is helping educators navigate it.
Written by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) instructor Alym Amlani with his former student Paul Davis, ChatGPT Ate My Homework: What Educators Need to Know About Generative AI aims to help teachers and administrators understand and navigate artificial intelligence tools.
“Generative AI is the most profound shift in education in decades. If educators don’t respond appropriately, students will reshape the future of education on their own terms,” says Amlani, an accounting instructor in the Melville School of Business at KPU.
The authors encourage educators not to prohibit AI, but embrace it. Amlani says learning about AI, and being competent in using it, is important for students preparing to enter the workforce. The book contains extensive guidance on how to teach AI skills including prompt engineering.
“This new technology has arrived at lightning speed. We need to rethink our teaching and assessment practices,” says Amlani. “AI isn’t the end of education — it’s the next frontier.”
ChatGPT Ate My Homework explores in depth how students are using generative AI and addresses the “blurred line” between helping students with research and helping them cheat. Included are practical tools and frameworks to assist educators in managing the technology, such as the “3Ms framework” — an academic integrity violation decision tree to assess misunderstanding, misuse and misconduct — and a checklist to determine the undisclosed use of AI.
The book also examines institutional and governmental responses to the technology, arguing for consistency across education in Canada.
ChatGPT Ate My Homework: What Educators Need to Know About Generative AI is self-published and available in print from Lulu Press, and in digital (Kindle) format.
