Written by a person or by a machine?

Teacher sheet

Goal. Get students to stop hunting for spelling mistakes and start asking whether the text says anything concrete and checkable.

Questions to open the discussion

• Which one was hardest, and why?
• Is good writing enough reason to believe a text?
• The Green River text has a date, a population and even a bridge. How would you check whether it is true?

The idea that should stick. A generated text can be flawless and false. Spelling proves nothing; what proves something is being able to verify the fact elsewhere.