K-12 Community Challenge
🛡️ Outsmarting the Copy-Paste: Designing AI-Resistant Assessments
Using Gemini under the hood to design process-based learning experiences.
📌 The Pedagogy-First Rule: We don't need to put students in front of chatbots to teach AI literacy. Instead, use Gemini behind the scenes to build robust offline assessments that grade the student's journey, not just the destination.
🧬 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Alignment:
This strategy aligns with the CAST UDL Action & Expression Guidelines by offering students multiple physical media options to demonstrate their comprehension, while managing cognitive load through structured executive function support.
By shifting our assessments to evaluate the process of learning, copy-pasting answers becomes nearly impossible. Below is our community's active learning cycle. Jump in, learn the method, try the prompt, and share your takeaways!
Your Active Learning Steps
1️⃣ LEARN: Complete These 2 Free Modules (15 mins)
Log in to the Google Certification Launchpad to earn your micro-credentials for these two core sessions:
🎓 Design assessments that capture student thinking
Build process-based check-ins that evaluate drafting, feedback, and student reflection.
Launch Module (GES 2.6) ↗
🎓 Introduction to Gemini for Education
Master prompt-engineering basics to let Gemini do the heavy administrative lifting.
Launch Module (GES 1.1) ↗
2️⃣ TRY: Build a "Connect, Extend, Challenge" Activity
We're leveraging Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero and their official Connect, Extend, Challenge thinking routine. Instead of grading an easily-outsourced final essay, have students track their developmental learning journey on paper using this structured loop.
📋 Copy and paste this prompt template into Gemini:
"Act as an instructional designer. I want to build a process-focused offline assessment for my [Grade Level] students on [Your Topic]. Draft a student-facing reflection guide that utilizes Harvard Project Zero's 'Connect, Extend, Challenge' thinking routine. Formulate clear reflection questions for each of the three steps to guide their thinking during the project."
3️⃣ REFLECT: Share Your Experience Below
Once you have run your lesson, let's learn together! Scroll down to our community comments at the bottom of this page and post your reflection using Harvard Project Zero’s classic "I Used to Think... Now I Think..." routine.
✏️ Copy-Paste Template for Comments:
🤔 I used to think: [Your old approach to grading or dealing with AI tools]
💡 Now I think: [How grading the student's process has changed your perspective]
Explore more methods in the Harvard PZ Thinking Routines Toolbox.
