Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based on chosen keywords. A student was supposed to write about ‘big data,’ and the [essay generator] called it ‘enormous information.’ Except that educators aren’t laughing.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a doctoral student and research writer myself, I have witnessed and experienced the profound impact of these technologies on academic writing. As Dr. Jörg von Garrel and Professor Jana Mayer reported, a nationwide survey conducted in Germany revealed that almost two-thirds of students use AI tools like ChatGPT in their studies.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Would you let your students submit a paper where 5% of the text was written by ChatGPT? The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Or, if they cited ChatGPT as a source?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

Learners must apply newly learned content to real-world workplace situations and demonstrate professional credibility and integrity. Simply put, academic integrity can make or break a student’s career. There are methods to ensure students have what they need. academic integrity, student code of conduct, etc.),

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Here are 5 positive ways students can use AI: 1. 24/7 tutors AI can serve as a round-the-clock tutor for your child, offering instant academic support when they need it–and it’s free. Students can learn about gravity by chatting with an AI-powered version of Sir Isaac Newton. Lessons come to life!

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

While some educators worry that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) might have a negative effect in these areas, many see the positive impact of AI on students’ ability to learn in their preferred languages, improved grades and career readiness. Canada, and in northern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

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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. After a conversation with a colleague, I began looking at how it might be possible to see the drafting process students use as they create their compositions.

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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. After a conversation with a colleague, I began looking at how it might be possible to see the drafting process students use as they create their compositions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Student success is an utmost priority for SmarterServices, which has led to a recent partnership with ClassCalc to integrate features that eliminate student distraction, create equity, and promote academic integrity. ” “This is a big step forward for ClassCalc.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

AI encourages cheating A common fear is that students will use AI to bypass learning. 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. Preparing students for the future AI isn’t going away.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Would you let your students submit a paper where 5% of the text was written by ChatGPT? The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Or, if they cited ChatGPT as a source?

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Maintaining academic integrity is important, but eradicating cheating is near impossible with how quickly technology moves, said Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity director at the University of California, San Diego, and board emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. Anxieties abound regarding crediting the AI, holding students accountable, and measuring learning that has occurred purely as a result of one student’s actions.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others. Anxieties abound regarding crediting the AI, holding students accountable, and measuring learning that has occurred purely as a result of one student’s actions.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

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. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2023

Starting tomorrow, Turnitin – a leading provider of academic integrity solutions globally – will activate its AI writing detection capabilities. The technology identifies the use of AI writing tools including ChatGPT, with 98 percent confidence, enabling educators to analyze and review the authenticity of academic work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. At Boston University and at Georgia Tech , officials have launched probes since the start of the pandemic into students using study-help sites for cheating.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

For instance, for my courses around instructional technology topics, I allow students nearly full use of generative AI tools with the caveat that they need to document the tools they used and why they selected those tools. This approach seeks to strike a balance between leveraging technological advancements and maintaining academic standards.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

Key points: Educators are worried about AI tools enabling plagiarism and cheating Banning ChatGPT prevents students and educators from using AI in new ways With the rising popularity of ChatGPT, many educators and administrators have trepidation toward the new technology, seeing it as a threat both to students and schools.

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Plagiarism Essay Academic Integrity Learning 306

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Together, these new enhancements drive deeper student engagement and offer even greater support to educators. Featuring short videos in English and Spanish that are paired with ready-to-use instructional activities, this exciting new content brings compelling natural science phenomena alive for students.   Randomized questions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

A recent survey by study.com found that nearly 90 percent of students admitted to using OpenAI’s chatbot in some home-related capacity, and more than 25 percent of teachers have already caught a student cheating using the chatbot. This begs a two-fold question: why do students cheat in the first place, and why is it so easy to cheat?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? Below are five ways students can (correctly!) ChatGPT generates original texts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What’s more, educators indicate a disparity when it comes to the likelihood of using Generative AI in the classroom, with district and school leaders perceived as less likely to embrace new AI tools when compared to educators and students. “Generative AI is a blend of promise and prudence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

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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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? This press release originally appeared online.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

As a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, I was among those who got a recent campus-wide email with an urgent directive: Don’t use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard or Bing, as doing so “is equivalent to receiving assistance from another person.” Upon reading it, I took a pause. Well, that virtual Aristotle is here.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

On a quiet morning in Ottawas Rockcliffe Park, more than a century ago, a woman named Theodora Philpot opened her home to four young students. Following World War II, Elmwood broadened its academic horizons beyond the humanities, and by the early 2000s, its student body had grown from 130 to over 300. Its lively. Its hands-on.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

Patti West-Smith, Turnitin senior director of customer engagement and a long-time classroom teacher and administrator said, “Turnitin has been a supporter of academic integrity for 25 years and we are continuing that commitment with our new AI writing detection feature.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

During a time when many students have access to personal and school-issued devices, JCPS is focused on teaching academic integrity rather than punishing lapses, says William Pierce, executive administrator of digital innovation and program management.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Serhii Tkachecnko, CEO at Unicheck, shares his thoughts on how educators can teach students about the benefits of plagiarism checking. Students experience an array of emotions toward education: from excitement to boredom. But when it comes to plagiarism checking, most students feel hostile.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Fast forward to today, and we have GPT-4, a sophisticated AI model used by more than a million students worldwide. Students across academic disciplines are already harnessing the capabilities of GPT-4. As the author of this article and a continuing student in the educational field, ChatGPT-4 has been invaluable in my Ph.D.

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Ethics Academic Integrity Intelligence Evaluation 286

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity.

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