8th Grade Short Stories - AI or Authentic? (6th Period) by Kali Stern https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9 Using the 8th grade stories posted in Google Classroom, identify and explain which stories you think were written by students and which stories were written using AI. How do you know? en-us 2025-08-18 18:58:25 UTC 2025-08-19 18:25:22 UTC hello@padlet.com AI or Not AI? kalistern https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546628643 For each story, explain whether you and your partner think that it was written by a student or AI generated. Include both yours and your partner's names.

]]> 2025-08-18 18:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546628643 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731114 I think this is a student written story because it uses ur instead of your.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731114 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731143 We saw an imperfection in the writing and we don't think that AI would make a mistake.

  • Savannah and Aime

]]> 2025-08-18 21:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731143 I think it is student made https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731569 I think it is student made because there is text that seems to be human made. For example, in the first sentence, it has the spelling error "ur" instead of your.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731569 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731811 I think it's student written because it uses words like "ur", which is a common HUMAN mistake.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546731811 Trapped being written by a student https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732029 The first thing I noticed in the first sentence of trapped is that the writer used "Ur" rather than "Your".

]]> 2025-08-18 21:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732029 Student Written (Jayve and Ella Rae) https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732558 It wasn't fully perfect, there wasn't spacing where it was supposed to be, and the dialogue was very natural.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732558 Not AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732769 I think this is not AI because theres a spelling error in the first sentence replacing "your" with "ur" and towards the end a spelling error replacing We're with were.

-Jayden and cheru

]]> 2025-08-18 21:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546732769 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733014 I think this story is written by a student because I caught a few imperfections in the writing.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733014 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733074 I think this is AI because it uses more advanced words and uses a lot of dialogue.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733074 Vada is not AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733398 This one is not AI because there was full paragraphs, while AI often takes out important lines of dialogue and puts them by themselves to further extend the point.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733398 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733558 I believe this story is student written because the plot is something a student could easily come up with

]]> 2025-08-18 21:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733558 Vada- AI? https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733661 Me and my partner, Hartlee, think that the short story with the title of Vada is AI generated. This is because the story is very dark and uses advanced vocabulary, and we just do not think an eighth grader would submit an essay with such negative topics.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733661 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733733 I think this is AI because the vocabulary and dialogue is more advanced.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733733 Trapped is not AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733963 Trapped is AI because it says "ur" instead of your.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546733963 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734090 I think this is AI as it uses more advanced vocabulary and has a plot no 8th grader would come up with


-Jayden and cheru

]]> 2025-08-18 21:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734090 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734137 We think this is AI because the paragraphs are very short and it's lacking in details. It also uses very complex words.

  • Savannah and Aime

]]> 2025-08-18 21:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734137 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734602 I believe trapped is not AI because there are too many commas in the second paragraph to be written by AI

]]> 2025-08-18 21:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734602 Student written s723734231 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734656 I think it's student written because it uses a lot of commas in weird places instead of a period. Making one sentence unnecessarily long. When it could have been broken up into smaller sentences.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734656 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734675 We think its AI because its very dark and uses advanced vocabulary.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734675 ai ai ai !!!! (Jayve and Ella Rae) https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734787 All descriptors are complicated yet generic, and they stretch out for a long time as well. The characters all have very 1 one-dimensional personalities as if they took one popular character and copied and pasted all of their characteristics and traits onto all of them.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734787 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734841 I think this is AI because it uses complex words and too much detail.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734841 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734893 We began reading the text and slowly saw how perfect the writing was, and began suspecting the writing used heavy amounts of AI. As we read, we noticed an unnecessary amount of complicated words and text. The text felt as if it had no life to it and that it was AI.

(Brynlee, Athena, Ella Rae, Jayve)

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734893 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734920 I think this story is AI because the plot and words used seem more advanced then what a 8th grader would normally write. I also feel that this story is very dark and sheds light on how kids get kidnapped, therfore I don't think an eight grader wrote it.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734920 AI generated https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734958 My partner, Julieana, and I think this story is AI because its spelling is too formal to be written by a student.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546734958 Student written (Jack/Avery) https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735120 I think it isn't AI because AI doesn't usually make such dark stories and tends to make nicer stories.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735120 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735144 We think it is student written because it says "ur" instead of your. It also sounds student written.


  • Haylee, Keahi, and Ella B.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735144 This seems like AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735275 AI usually writes in short paragraphs and as Aime stated, I also noticed that there was a lack in detail.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735275 AI Generated https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735424 It uses a lot of professional words, a complex plot, and a dark theme.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735424 Student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735444 This is written by a student because they used "ur" instead of "your".

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735444 Student https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735505 I think a student wrote this because they used words that Ai usually wouldn't put in the stories.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735505 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735541 I think this story is AI because there are no imperfections and it doesn't have any personality in the writing.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735541 Ai https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735611 there were no mistakes and they used advanced words

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735611 Student written s723737509 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735621 I believe Trapped is student-written because it uses ¨Ur¨" instead of ¨Your. ¨ Also, whoever wrote this might have double-spaced on accident.


-Zoe chappell

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735621 I think it's AI (Jack and Avery) https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735628 I think its AI because it is using super long words and doesn't sound human made.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735628 Student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735698 Julieana and I believe this story is student-written because we found imperfections in the spelling.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735698 Trapped-Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735739 My partner, Hartlee, and I think that this essay is student written. This is because it has basic vocabulary, and a few mistakes, for example, it used the word, or shortened word, "Ur" instead of you're, and has a few mistakes of not using periods, commas, etc.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735739 Maybe student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735740 I believe that this may not be AI because of the mistake "ur" in the first sentence of the story. However, there are no more spelling mistakes from that point on, which is slightly suspicious, making me think that may be a command to an artificial intelligence.

-Cheru

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735740 Student Written (Jayve and Ella Rae) https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735748 I believe that the writer was trying to trick us.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735748 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735766 Spelling mistakes, incorrect grammar. no punctuation

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735766 student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735800 there were many mistakes in the story

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735800 Student Written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735814 We think Vada is student written because they were using two different apostrophes and quotation marks. It uses a reasonable amount of detail.

  • Savannah and Aime

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735814 The journey of liora is AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735815 This one is AI because AI often takes out important lines of dialogue and puts them by themselves to further extend the point, while students write in solid full paragraphs

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735815 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735936 I think it was vada because they didn't use a lot of fancy setting words.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735936 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735940 I believe this is AI because i've never seen a student use wording like "hands raw from the salt" and "the sun bled orange orange across the water".

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735940 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735959 I think this is AI as there's no imperfections as well as very complicated dialogue and vocabulary.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546735959 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736019 I think this was Ai because it sounded to proper which a student wouldn't normally do.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736019 Student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736442 I think it is written by a student because there were some small grammar mistakes.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736442 Student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736527 We think this is student written because the words they used didn't really sound like an AI and there were some errors.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736527 Student written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736612 I think this story has a few points where the transition of things happeing didn't really makes sense. Also this story can be seen as relatble to teens

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736612 AI generated https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736628 This story is too in-depth.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736628 Ai s723737509 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736646 I feel like this is AI because what I've noticed with AI is that they use --- a lot, and it added too many details.


-Zoe chappell

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736646 Ai https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736696 I think this was Ai because everything is too perfect while if a student wrote this there would be some imperfections. There was also alot of little quotes that I wouldn't think a student would use.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736696 AI written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736766 Not a lot of detail and really complex words.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736766 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736875 It was too bad. It was dry and lacked detail.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:46 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736875 AI written https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736902 I think this is AI because the paragraphs were short and used words students wouldn't

]]> 2025-08-18 21:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546736902 Student Written s723737509 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546737033 Even though this is very well written, there are some spelling errors.



-Zoe Chappell

]]> 2025-08-18 21:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546737033 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546737312 I think this story is AI becuause it is lacking in dialouge and is very descriptive.

]]> 2025-08-18 21:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3546737312 AI s723718212 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547113852 I think “The Journey Of Liora” was created using AI because the verbiage was very complex with also little to no imperfections.

]]> 2025-08-19 04:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547113852 Student Made s723718212 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547116198 I think “Trapped” was student made because as i was reading i caught some spelling errors.

]]> 2025-08-19 04:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547116198 Student Made s723718212 https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547120494 I believe “Vada” is student made because the story was very well written. On the other hand i see tiny spelling errors, and i feel the plot is very basic— something a student could think of.

]]> 2025-08-19 04:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547120494 AI https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547931873 Me and my partner, Rhylee, think this is AI generated. There is a lot of detail and it was a little complicated.

]]> 2025-08-19 18:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vacapenamiddleschool/8rke90p199b1rnz9/wish/3547931873