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Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age

eSchool News

There’s no denying that AI can enhance learning and digital literacy, but some usage raises important questions about ethics and its impact on academic outcomes. The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye.

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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

eSchool News

Students must be taught to move beyond the first AI response or web result, so they build the essential skills in: Deep reading Source evaluation Contextual comparison Critical synthesis Teachers should avoid giving assignments that limit students to a single source type, especially AI. The stakes are higher. The tools are smarter.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

It has been more than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Turnitin’s default settings, once integrated, are to scan every assignment, not just those that professors suspect are plagiarized. “I I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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PowerNotes Launches Composer, an AI-Enriched, Semi-Proctored Writing Tool

eSchool News

PowerNotes+ is a reading, research, and writing platform that helps educators and institutions have control and confidence using artificial intelligence (AI)—and addresses questions of intellectual integrity using transparency and evidence, not suspicion. “AI And it’s constantly changing. Learn more at PowerNotes.com.

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

Edsurge

Upon reading it, I took a pause. Unregulated use comes with legit teaching and learning, ethics and integrity concerns… Students — what are some ways you’re using it responsibly? Teachers — what have been the implications for grading?” Ultimately, the underlying approach is not new.

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Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom 

Faculty Focus

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience. The distortion makes it difficult for bots to accurately identify the characters while humans can easily read them.