Hello and welcome back to the Daily Tech News Show weekend edition. I'm Tom Merritt. And as promised,

joining me again is Kevin Metcalf, Associate Vice Chancellor in IT at Foothill De Anza. Kevin, welcome back.

Hey, thanks for having me again. Appreciate it. Thanks for being willing to do all the positive good stuff in one episode and then addressing all of the controversies in another. I appreciate it.

Yeah, no worries.

So if you missed the first episode, Kevin, let's just do a real quick who you are for somebody who might be new.

Sure. So I'm an associate vice

chancellor at the Foothill Deenza Community College District. I've been in education for a little

over two decades now and have a little over a decade of experience in the classroom as well.

All right. So we moved all of the questions about cheating and controversies in education to this episode

so we could give them our full attention. We've got a couple of questions to kick us off here. Zero

asked, how has AI impacted cheating? How do you plan on combating cheating with AI? And then Zio wanted

to know if there's pushback from faculty members and how you deal with that.

Yeah.

No, those are great questions.

I mean, on the teaching front, the elephant in the room is cheating, right?

You know, if I ask a student to write a five-page paper on Moby Dick, can they just ask the AI to give it to them, right? And, you know, this is sort of the modern spin on asking your buddy who passed the class last year, you know, to write the paper for you or paying somebody online to do it.

Or in my day, going to the world book and just copying the entry, right? Yeah, exactly.

It's always weird. You know, after being in higher ed as long as I have, I'm still always

surprised when I find out someone is willing to pay for an

education, but not get the education they paid for. So it's always been possible to cheat. But yeah,

the LLMs make it quite a bit easier. It really lowers that barrier to entry. And so, you know,

faculty are having to get creative with assignments. You know, maybe that looks like designing an assignment around applying course material to an experience

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