Washington Post gift article – A growing number of educators are finding that oral exams allow them to test their students’ learning without the benefit of AI platforms such as ChatGPT: “…Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT. Such tools can be used to cheat on take-home exams or essays and to complete all manner of assignments, part of a broader phenomenon known as “cognitive off-loading.” Catherine Hartmann’s honors seminar at the University of Wyoming Hartman…she tells her students that using AI is like bringing a forklift to the gym when your goal is to build muscle. “The classroom is a gymnasium, and I am your personal trainer,” she explains. “I want you to lift the weights.” So far, her students have embraced the training regimen. Lily Leman, 20, a double major in Spanish and history, took her final exam last week. Leman admits to being “pretty freaked out” at first by the idea of an oral exam. Now she wishes she had more of them. “With this exam, I don’t know how you would use AI, frankly,” Leman said. Ever since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, educators have been grappling with the challenge AI represents for existing methods of learning. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.)..”