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ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity

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After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. To get a national perspective, EdSurge recently connected with Derek Newton, a journalist who runs a weekly Substack newsletter called The Cheat Sheet , about academic integrity and cheating. So professors have been quick to respond.

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AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

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Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? In the fast-changing digital world, integrating AI into education is both a breakthrough and a problem.

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A taxonomy for using AI in education

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Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

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He was one of several professors who outlined their objections to the practice on a blog post last month of a joint task force on AI and writing organized by two prominent academic groups the Modern Language Association and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Opting in doesnt make sense in this situation, she argues.

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What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective

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And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Hoping to Get More of Their Teachers to Try AI, Students Organize a National Conference

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After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. To Chang’s point, plenty of professors remain concerned about the potential impacts of ChatGPT on academic integrity, even if they’re open to adopting the tools to improve teaching.

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How Does A Tool That Detects Cheating With ChatGPT Grapple With ‘False Positives’?

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Academic integrity watchdogs also point out that a dismissal of cheating charges does not mean no misconduct occurred, only that it wasn’t proven. Still, the unease about inaccurate accusations gives instructors and administrators pause around AI writing detection.