Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker.

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APRIL 30, 2024

This change reduces writing assignment stress and time pressure, improving productivity and learning. However, when leveraging such tools for school assignments, it’s crucial to ensure the work remains authentic because teachers always check AI% in Turnitin or other detectors.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Most digital writing tools offer limited assistance: they check for plagiarism, allow a student to track changes, or offer the ability to add comments. Scaffolded practice connects instruction to feedback When writing, students must engage in a multi-step process of goal-setting, planning, drafting, evaluating, revising, and editing.

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MAY 16, 2023

Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic. Choose a Topic The first step in writing a research paper is to pick an assignment topic that interests you.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The first bucket of products typically boast features like chatbot capability, plagiarism detection and automated essay scoring. These are tools that may be difficult to evaluate holistically, since you have to determine whether the output makes sense on a case-by-case basis. There’s a very real human reason for this.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

While being mindful of the concerns of plagiarism, equity, and access, some have argued educators must not only accept AI in the classroom but must help their students use it effectively as part of their digital literacy (Bender 2024, 9). Students are expected to generate and submit original, personally composed tasks for each assignment.

Intelligence 128

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 128

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In response to this, my focus in teaching information literacy has broadened to include evaluating credibility and point of view in sources. Rather than approaching every source with, “This might be wrong,” my goal is to help them practice evaluating, “How can I verify the credibility of this?”

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Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It’s a problem thesis that has convinced others to write (a check, that is), including Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is leading a $3.2 based company.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2025

We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources. Effectively using the Internet as a tool for learning requires you to formulate a question or use keywords to click through and evaluate multiple search results until you find something that is both reliable and relevant to your question.

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Internet Schools Students Plagiarism 143

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In response to this, my focus in teaching information literacy has broadened to include evaluating credibility and point of view in sources. Rather than approaching every source with, “This might be wrong,” my goal is to help them practice evaluating, “How can I verify the credibility of this?”

Teaching 111

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

While being mindful of the concerns of plagiarism, equity, and access, some have argued educators must not only accept AI in the classroom but must help their students use it effectively as part of their digital literacy (Bender 2024, 9). Students are expected to generate and submit original, personally composed tasks for each assignment.

Intelligence 105

Intelligence Critical Thinking Learning Assignments 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. Here you will find everything you need to know about AI in education so you can determine for yourself. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., The first article (this one) will provide instructions for creating an intimate debate case study (a case study where students evaluate evidence for two sides of a controversy). 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., Here is a proposed prompt.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For aspiring school administrators, they have learned how to write teacher evaluations that are honest and encouraging while using Microsoft Copilot and GoReact and also ensuring that the pre-service teachers have a growth mindset to improve their practice by using AI programs that current teachers are using.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., The first article (this one) will provide instructions for creating an intimate debate case study (a case study where students evaluate evidence for two sides of a controversy). 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., Here is a proposed prompt.

Study 111

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For aspiring school administrators, they have learned how to write teacher evaluations that are honest and encouraging while using Microsoft Copilot and GoReact and also ensuring that the pre-service teachers have a growth mindset to improve their practice by using AI programs that current teachers are using.

Intelligence 96

Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 96

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Thinking we can distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated work Concerned about academic integrity, many academic colleges have turned to plagiarism detection services in student assignments. For instructors, this means devising assignments that incorporate AI but push beyond its limits.

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Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Below are three methods of designing writing assignments in the face of an AI incursion.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We like evaluating ideas and sharing thoughts. One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment. One note: Laws addressing plagiarizing differ throughout the world. When is it plagiarizing and when isn’t it. How do you know if you plagiarized?

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Plagiarism Internet Writing Evaluation 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Below are three methods of designing writing assignments in the face of an AI incursion.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98