From Korea
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Testing Three AI Detectors on Primary-School Writing
I gave 41 handwritten essays by Korean fifth-graders, and 20 AI-written essays on the same prompts, to three AI detectors. One flagged 15 of the children as AI. Another let almost every AI essay through.
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Banning Advanced Instruction, but Not at Private Academies
South Korea's Public Education Normalization Act stops schools from teaching ahead of the curriculum. Twelve years on, private academies still can — and that asymmetry is written into the law itself.
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South Korea Banned Phones in Class. Nobody Said Who Keeps Them.
A Korean teacher on the phone ban the world reported and then stopped following — what the statute actually says, how 11,868 schools split four ways, and the question the law left open.
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Korea Spent $1 Billion on AI Textbooks. Most Students Never Logged In.
A Korean teacher on what actually happened with the AI digital textbook rollout, and why the problem was the order things were done in.