Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. How do I teach in a world where everyone has a calculator for everything? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Will technology induce cheating?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

AI is unreliable and bias-laden While it’s true that AI models can perpetuate biases or produce incorrect information, these limitations present teaching opportunities. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers.

Ethics 332

Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 332

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

Nearly 2 in 3 K-12 teachers (63 percent) say they (or their school district) have incorporated GenAI technology into their teaching process compared to 49 percent of higher-ed instructors. videos integrated into digital content) (30 percent), narrative content (e.g., test and quiz questions) (34 percent), animations (e.g.,

Instructors 296

Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 296

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

AI algorithms use massive datasets and natural language processing to produce content that replicates student writing styles as teaching tools. Understanding AI in Academic Writing AI in academic writing is changing how students write essays.

Essay 187

Essay Writing Ethics Plagiarism 187

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Whats remarkable is how seamlessly all of this blends with the schools academic rigour. Critical thinking isnt something we teach once, says Ms. Every student has their own MacBook or iPad.

Schools 222

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Art 222

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

These tools encompass a broad spectrum of resources, including educational apps, multimedia presentations, virtual field trips, and interactive maps–all of which have the potential to enhance the teaching and learning of social studies.

Social Studies 293

Social Studies Study Ethics Intelligence 293

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Discovery Education’s award-winning products and services have long been recognized as the “teacher’s choice” for their high-quality digital content, grab-and-go lessons, and teaching tools that drive deep student learning in all K-12 topics. 10 new learning games from Arcademics. Randomized questions.

Student Engagement 257

Student Engagement Education Social Studies Art 257

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Use warm-toned and success-oriented language. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

Teaching 122

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

What understanding learning differences can teach us about personalized learning For 35 years, Chartwell Middle School, near Monterey, Calif., focused primarily on supporting students with language-based learning differences, primarily dyslexia.

Teaching 137

Teaching Education Learning Culture 137

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

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. The challenges of supporting ELLs across content areas Teaching ELLs presents unique challenges.

Essay 178

Essay Ethics Feedback Language 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT nearly a year ago, teachers have debated whether to ban the tool (over fears that students will use it to cheat ) or embrace it as a teaching aid (arguing that the tool could boost learning and will become key in the workplace).

Academic Integrity 182

Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 182

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Use warm-toned and success-oriented language. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

Teaching 97

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 97

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The toolkit provides a framework for incorporating AI in education, real-world policy examples, sample guidance language, and resources aimed at staff, parents, and students. “By providing real-world examples and sample language, we hope education systems now have a place to start their discussions.”

Teachers 217

Teachers Schools Intelligence Academic Integrity 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. You might expect Turnitin ’s Vice President of New Technologies, Elijah Mayfield, to have a lifelong penchant for technology.

Achievement 164

Achievement Writing Essay Language 164

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language. Mills doesnt necessarily disagree with that argument, in theory.

Instructors 200

Instructors History English Writing 200

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

Syllabus 124

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. This solution did not work in the classes I was teaching.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Academic Integrity Quizzes Plagiarism 144

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Feature Bots Chatbots Primary function Automate tasks Communicate and provide information User interaction No direct user interaction Direct user interaction through natural language Typical use cases Customer service, marketing, social media Customer service, education, e-commerce Figure 1.

Education 135

Education Academic Integrity Plagiarism Students 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

More than 2,000 people attended at least part of the event, according to lead organizer Johnny Chang, an incoming grad student at Stanford University, with 90 percent of participants indicating they teach at colleges or schools. I think many faculty have not sorted out what academic integrity is with this tech,” Dede said.

Ethics 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Despite all that opposition, and the fact that colleges are returning to in-person teaching, sales of proctoring software have been robust. The story with a lot of edtech is that the pandemic catalyzed a lot of growth, and the adoption holds even once ground-based [teaching] goes back.”

Exams 190

Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 190

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Teaching example: In one of my recent courses, I included a “workshop day” for students to peer review each other’s drafts of case conceptualizations.

Plagiarism 114

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 114

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Academic integrity watchdogs also point out that a dismissal of cheating charges does not mean no misconduct occurred, only that it wasn’t proven.

Plagiarism 119

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success Shellon Samuels-White is a passionate educator of over 14 years.

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot.

Instructors 132

Instructors Attention Lecturing Essay 132

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Feature Bots Chatbots Primary function Automate tasks Communicate and provide information User interaction No direct user interaction Direct user interaction through natural language Typical use cases Customer service, marketing, social media Customer service, education, e-commerce Figure 1.

Education 111

Education Academic Integrity Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There is a precedent for using such terms as a means to distinguish the backgrounds of language users, often as a means to differentiate between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) of a language. 2020) compared language usage in NS and NNS of English among engineering lecturers. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. This solution did not work in the classes I was teaching.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Academic Integrity Quizzes Plagiarism 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Teaching example: In one of my recent courses, I included a “workshop day” for students to peer review each other’s drafts of case conceptualizations.

Plagiarism 97

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 97

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) which collect extensive data from various sources, including Wikipedia, public forums, and programming-related websites like Q&A sites and tutorials. This vast amount of information is utilized by LLMs to enhance their responses.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) which collect extensive data from various sources, including Wikipedia, public forums, and programming-related websites like Q&A sites and tutorials. This vast amount of information is utilized by LLMs to enhance their responses.

Intelligence 96

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 96

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

The company’s website was written in Chinese and marketed to students who did not speak English as their first language. 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.

Plagiarism 150

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 150

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

With the evolution of large language models such as ChatGPT and Gemini, it’s growing more challenging to distinguish authentic student work from auto-generated text strings. And in an ideal world, there would be piles of data about best practices for meetings that probe a student’s academic integrity.

Instructors 109

Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics 109

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT Using an AI Chatbot: Programmed for Success Shellon Samuels-White is a passionate educator of over 14 years.

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There is a precedent for using such terms as a means to distinguish the backgrounds of language users, often as a means to differentiate between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) of a language. 2020) compared language usage in NS and NNS of English among engineering lecturers. Kuswoyo et al. link] Gibbs, J.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111