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New modes of digital literacy are just as important as traditional literacy. Photo: File

How to rethink literacy for the digital age

International Literacy Day offers a time for reflection on the situation in Africa, where gains have been made in literacy figures but where much remains to be done

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AI identification relies on specific linguistic heuristics, which may lead to the erroneous classification of authentic student work as AI-generated. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

AI detectors fail to assess students’ work accurately and fairly

If universities see artificial intelligence as a tool students must learn to use responsibly rather than a force to be policed, academia can establish a productive relationship with the technology

  • Des Erasmus
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