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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. The following steps can help you, and your students, take action to ensure academic integrity. What questions do you have?

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How Writing Can Help Close the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Turnitin’s Elijah Mayfield

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In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

eSchool News

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. How this leads to cheating : Without an emphasis on academic integrity or a strong student-teacher relationship, students may feel less inclined to follow the rules.

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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

eSchool News

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. If students witness or believe that plagiarism achieves results, they can feel pressured to do the same in order to meet what they feel are unrealistic expectations. And in her book My Word!,

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. It would also, of course, improve their lives.

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As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

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Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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