Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. That said, given the right prompts, AI software can truly deliver some lovely, thoughtful college-level writing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While the fears of cheating have definitely been legitimate, have you actually tried writing an essay using just AI? Just as the internet revolutionized education, AI will be the next game-changer. Hate to say it, but the outcomes aren’t instant gratification.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. This article will expand on those long-searched for details so everyone will have a process on academic honesty policies regarding AI. 2023, August 9).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

At the heart of composition faculty in particular, but of the entire higher education community as well, are those of us looking for solutions for students using AI to write papers. This article will expand on those long-searched for details so everyone will have a process on academic honesty policies regarding AI. 2023, August 9).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, students can use AI for initial brainstorming or as a tool to refine their writing, requiring them to demonstrate understanding by reflecting on or critiquing AI-generated content.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

This approach stems from concerns about academic integrity, originality, and the potential for AI to undermine the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Here, AI acts as an intelligent assistant, helping students improve grammar, structure, and coherence in their writing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. He also spent time consulting for high profile companies like CTB McGraw-Hill and College Board, which wanted to learn more about student writing. One thing that I’m working very hard to change is the baseline premise that writing is a high-stakes thing.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. research assistance, writing support). research assistance, writing support). These concerns are not new.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. research assistance, writing support). research assistance, writing support). These concerns are not new.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. That said, given the right prompts, AI software can truly deliver some lovely, thoughtful college-level writing.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The most-cited applications included providing feedback on student work, creating professional development materials, supporting writing and content generation, creating course content, and enhancing accessibility for students with special needs. The integration of AI in K-12 education presents both opportunities and challenges.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By Carl Hooker One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in education is that it will encourage students to cheat and cause academic integrity concerns. Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Did students cheat before AI was around?

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I’m a former educator in the process of writing my dissertation for my Doctorate of Education, as part of a part-time program while working a full-time job at Google. Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Upon reading it, I took a pause.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Through its artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, Copyleaks is able to understand and learn more about the text that students are writing throughout the school year. The platform allows both teachers and students to improve their writing processes. Copyleaks provides a full.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Academic Integrity 210

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year. To Derek Newton, a journalist who writes a newsletter about academic integrity , the policy seems like an effort by OpenAI to dodge concerns that many students use ChatGPT to cheat on assignments. “It

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

I would read just the instructions from a customer and I would think, ‘This person couldn’t write the paper if they tried,’” he says. We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara. It gave examples like the American Dream.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

And if that homework involves writing assignments, the hours add up fast. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% of more than 70,000 students surveyed say they have plagiarized someone else’s ideas in their writing. It’s a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. University of Notre Dame Professor Susan Blum writes that 68% of college students admit to “cutting and pasting material from the Internet without citation.” And in her book My Word!,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Students need opportunities to learn with and about AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Students need opportunities to learn with and about AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

The case raises a point of contention over the use of algorithmic writing detectors — tests of the software have found a high percentage of “false positives” — and there are now examples of cases when accusations that students used AI turned out to be unsubstantiated or were later dropped.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

In this way, by the time they reach college, students will already know these checkers are not used to punish them, but rather to improve their writing skills and the quality of education, both higher and K-12. Some students turn to essay mills when they are stressed out or run out of time to complete an assignment. Conclusion.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Kuswoyo et al.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Joyce Carol Oates Says Teaching Creative Writing Is Like Training Boxers Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Australia is paying a lot more attention to this than any other country in the world,” says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California at San Diego. In some cases those investigations led to legal action against companies offering paper-writing services, says Lelo.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 152

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Kuswoyo et al.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 142

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Against the use of GPTZero and other LLM-detection tools on student writing. link] Currier, J. 2022, December). link] GPTZero.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Against the use of GPTZero and other LLM-detection tools on student writing. link] Currier, J. 2022, December). link] GPTZero.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86