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

Cal Matters

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Student Disengagement Has Soared Since the Pandemic. Here’s What Lectures Look Like Now

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. My goal in flying down to Texas State was to find out, what do college classes look and feel like now—especially in large lectures like this one?

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

And that has led to new teaching practices, mainly flipped classrooms where professors require students to watch video lectures for homework and use class time for more active discussions or hands-on activities.

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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

Edsurge

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. A recent survey of 1,000 K-12 teachers found that 61 percent predicted that ChatGPT will have “legitimate educational uses that we cannot ignore.”

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024

eSchool News

Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning.