Educators can assess real understanding in the age of AI by using explanation-based methods like oral exams and verbal reasoning tasks. These formats help teachers hear student thinking directly — something written work increasingly fails to reveal when students use AI tools. Coraltalk and similar voice-first platforms make spoken assessment scalable.

Then generative AI crashed into education and exposed the system’s quiet flaw:
AI didn’t create a cheating crisis.
It exposed a pedagogy crisis.
Assignments, essays, homework—you can generate all of it in 20 seconds.
So the real question became:

“How do we know what students truly understand anymore?”

It all begins with an idea.