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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. Most of these campuses have licensed Turnitin’s plagiarism detector since 2014.

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You’re using ChatGPT? A true story about why AI literacy starts with us

eSchool News

Ethically : Know when AI use is appropriate and how to avoid misuse (like plagiarism or cheating). Just as we teach responsible use of the internet and social media, we must teach responsible use of AI. That’s where the SEE Framework comes in: Safely : Understand privacy concerns and avoid unsafe tools or prompts.

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

eSchool News

Teachers havent stopped assigning projects on wolves, genetic engineering, drug abuse, or the Harlem Renaissance, but the way students approach those assignments has changed dramatically. Encouraging assignments that require diverse sources and source types helps to build research resilience. They no longer just surf the web.

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

Edsurge

Students and instructors can run originality reports to check any written assignments done in Google Doc against the hundreds of billions of web pages, and tens of millions of books, that Google has indexed over the years. Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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Has the ubiquity of social media given plagiarism new life? Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. It’s no wonder, then, that plagiarism is on the rise.

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An Easy, Reliable Way to Check for Plagiarism

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T he unauthorized use of another’s creative content has always been a problem but with the growth of the Internet, it’s become epidemic. This, of course, isn’t true but the rules and laws surrounding plagiarism and copyrights aren’t nearly as well-known as those that deal with, say, driving a car or crossing a street.