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

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Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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5 Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

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Thanks to easy access to internet resources and a serious lack of understanding on the part of many students about what online resources can legally be used, plagiarism has become a huge problem in schools. Plagiarism: Stealing information and references without correct citations cause the problem of plagiarism.

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

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It will also be accessible via Assignments (formerly called CourseKit), which lets users create, manage and grade work using Google tools within a school’s or district’s learning management system. Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new.

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How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community

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Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. But before we open the floodgates to the fascinating world that is the internet, students must understand what it means to thrive as a citizen of that community.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

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Those reasons may include: lack of writing skills, insecurity around writing skills, struggles with time management, confusion about the topic, missing grammar and organizational skills, having no motivation or interest, missing real-world relevance, poor work ethic, lack of access to resources, and home/personal life stress.

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The 9 essential elements of digital citizenship

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Digital access: Full electronic participation in society, which includes helping to make sure everyone has equal access to technology and understands the limitations and drawbacks when this access is withheld. But as a baseline, Ribble also outlines nine essential elements of digital citizenship that every student should know.

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Here’s the Easiest Way to Check for Plagiarism

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One of the biggest problems facing digital natives as they grow into adults is understanding how to maneuver the vastness of the Internet ethically, safely, and to serve their needs. If you take it, that’s plagiarism and–like stealing from a store–carries drastic penalties. What is PlagiarismCheck.org.