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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

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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. Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error.

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How AI can unleash student curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking

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Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. You can even design the story around a subject that your students are studying, such as hurricanes, animal habitats, or an era of history. I won’t minimize the risks.

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Language Arts teacher: These are “My Tech Essentials” for high schoolers

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Newsela is a daily updated news-as-literacy platform accumulating articles on History, Science, Health, Law, and Arts. Selecting the appropriate reading level, the teacher can assign individual readings to the student or the group. Next page: Language arts apps to avoid plagiarism, develop critical thinking and extend vocab).

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Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration

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And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt.

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PowerNotes Launches Composer, an AI-Enriched, Semi-Proctored Writing Tool

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Composer allows teachers to create assignments and then closely observe the entire process their students follow, from gathering information to writing and revising. Putting clear parameters on the AI-plagiarism conversation keeps the focus on the process of developing an idea into a completed paper or presentation. “At

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How Does A Tool That Detects Cheating With ChatGPT Grapple With ‘False Positives’?

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His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. In practice, it’s proven to be a little thorny.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. And last but not least, some help for all of us amateur Google detectives.

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