By Cass Vega. DC Additive Pros is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google; product names are used only to describe what students actually do.
How do I stop students from using ChatGPT to do their homework?
You mostly can't, and detection tools are unreliable enough that accusing students based on them is risky. What works is changing the format of the work so that a pasted AI answer earns nothing: positions defended aloud, rankings justified in person, arguments the student must make against their own view, and evidence drawn from the student's own life, book, town, or classroom. An AI can produce fluent text; it cannot sit in your classroom and defend that text under questioning.
What is an AI-proof or AI-resistant assignment?
An honest definition: no assignment is truly AI-proof. An AI-resistant assignment is one where the graded moment happens live or by hand, and where the question demands something an outside tool does not have, like the student's own reasoning under challenge, their own experience as evidence, or a defense of the position they personally reject. Discussion, debate, Socratic seminar, and handwritten defense are the formats where a chatbot stops being a shortcut.
What are examples of discussion questions ChatGPT can't answer for a student?
Questions like these, drawn from our subject sets: Is 0.999... exactly equal to 1? Defend your position, then find the strongest argument against it and answer that too. (Math.) Audit your own textbook's chapter on any war: whose experience got the fewest sentences, and why? (U.S. History.) Interview an elder about an event you studied and report where memory and textbook diverge. (History.) Compute the true price of your last hour of scrolling. (Economics.) A chatbot can discuss these topics, but it cannot be the student in the room doing the defending, auditing, interviewing, or confessing.
Where can I get ready-made AI-resistant questions for my subject?
We publish AI-Resistant Critical Thinking Questions, 36 questions per subject with a teacher note under every question, a seminar and debate guide, and a written defense template, for grades 8-12 at $3.99 per subject:
Should I ban AI tools in my classroom instead?
Bans push use underground and skip the more durable lesson: students will work alongside these tools for the rest of their lives. The teachers getting the best results in 2026 do both things at once: they use AI openly for what it is good at, and they grade the human part, the reasoning, the defense, the revision, in formats where it cannot be delegated. If you want the full first-week framework for that conversation, see our classroom AI resources.
Do these questions come with answer keys?
No, deliberately. These are judgment questions, not lookup questions. The rubric is the quality of reasoning: did the student state a position, support it, fairly state the strongest objection, and answer it? The teacher notes under each question flag the trap, the concept, and the follow-up so you can run the room with confidence even outside your specialty.