eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

7 ways AI will make a positive impact on classroom teaching For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A new survey reveals surprising information about who is more comfortable using AI in school. Significant unsanctioned AI usage Educators and students differ greatly in following school AI ethics policies.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

As a result, 28 percent of the students said workers will need to acquire new skills to thrive in the new AI workplace, and more than two thirds are looking to their schools to help position them for future success. How can high schools prepare students for the future world of AI?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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. We repost so much so frequently that some platforms, such as Facebook, have been compelled to develop their own citation rules to combat plagiarism.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2023

Nearly every school or university faculty is having at least a few conversations about how to address a world rich in easy-to-use artificial intelligence tools that can generate student assignments. Of 28 fully AI-derived assignments, 24 of 28 were determined to be 100 percent AI generated.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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. One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

So, plagiarism checkers don’t see them as copied. How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? Brainstorm and generate essay topics While teachers often assign particular essay topics to students, sometimes a prompt says they are free to write on anything they want. ChatGPT generates original texts.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. AI tools are on the rise, and students use them for different purposes: Grammar checking Citation generation Plagiarism checking Generating topic ideas, outlines, and reference lists for academic papers Like it or not, AI is here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2019

I am constantly amazed at how many students plagiarize schoolwork. I was excited when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Milyn Anne, offered this article explaining the why behind plagiarizing: What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School? Incongruent School Discipline. Psychological Factors.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools. Dont Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Department of Education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. For schools to effectively engage with this new technology, teachers must first learn how to implement these tools into our classrooms in ways that foster student growth and show them that AI is meant to complement their learning journey.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 286

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

To address this challenge, Writable ’s new generative AI-powered tools include AI-generated prompts and assignments, AI-suggested feedback and scores on any writing assignment, as well as tools to guard against plagiarism and detect AI writing in student submissions. For more information, visit www.writable.com/ai.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These app essentials will help keep high school students engaged while learning language arts, and teach them how to form the arguments and enhance learning comprehension. Selecting the appropriate reading level, the teacher can assign individual readings to the student or the group. Forming the Arguments.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2024

Here are some suggested activities related to each topic area: Safety : Assign a different AI tool to student groups. As a class, discuss scenarios, such as who is responsible when an autonomous vehicle makes a mistake, or if using AI is plagiarism. What information does it require to function?

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. Use AI to develop games and quizzes aligned with the school curriculum.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 241

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Let students see. “The content presented in this blog is the result of my creative imagination and not intended for use, reproduction, or incorporation into any artificial intelligence training or machine learning systems without prior written consent from the author.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

We’re absolutely looking for ways to explore collective action to leverage against some of these threats,” says Douglas Harrison, vice president and dean of the school of cybersecurity and information technology at Maryland’s Global Campus. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds. We never claim to be certain,” she says.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

They all have more than 10 years of experience in education and work across all three types of school environments: urban, suburban, and rural. Many coaches note that AI tools assisted in grading assignments, offering real-time feedback, and supporting differentiated instruction. Coaches cite technical challenges as well.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Unfortunately, education has become no exception to this gig economy lifestyle: it is not uncommon for students to plagiarize content from the internet, or turn to a third party to complete their school papers and assignments—a practice that threatens the value of education as a transformational enterprise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

One new feature, Grade Sync, will automatically send grades from assignments done in Teams to the school’s student information system (SIS). Managing and grading assignments in Microsoft Teams. Image credit: Microsoft) In addition, an update to the Teams mobile app will let teachers grade assignments from iOS and Android phones.

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Curriculum Plagiarism Assignments Fairness 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. And some students have pushed back in viral social media posts or even sued schools over what they say are false accusations of AI cheating.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

According to Lee (2022), “academic integrity is an indicator of future workplace behavior and multiple research endeavors” suggest “academic dishonesty in school leads to dishonesty in the workplace” (para. Lessons learned and suggested practices When I first started teaching many years ago, I was not sympathetic to those who plagiarized.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments Writing 105

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Developing the skills to use these tools ethically is an essential part of digital literacy that will carry forward to help them succeed in school and in life.” Composer allows teachers to create assignments and then closely observe the entire process their students follow, from gathering information to writing and revising.

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

These can be taught individually (through coaching or mentoring), in small groups (of at least five), as school PD, or through select colleges for grad school credit. Minimum enrollment of 5; delivered digitally to your school or District. Minimum enrollment of 5; delivered digitally to your school or District.

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Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

Plagiarism in the classroom is when students try to turn in an assignment that they did not write. Some shocking research has been published recently showing that upwards of 89% of university students had used programs such as ChatGPT to help them with school assignments.

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Plagiarism Essay Teachers Assignments 52

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. 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. However scared we may be, returning to old-school methods won’t solve the problem.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. plagiarism. Price includes course registration and all necessary materials.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools. Dont Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

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. Daniel, an instructional technology coach for McFarland Unified School District.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Choose a Topic The first step in writing a research paper is to pick an assignment topic that interests you. Using a free plagiarism checker or other digital tools help you ensure the originality of your work. This post will take you through the writing process of a research paper and the importance of samples.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

Faculty Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

In order to write an academic integrity policy for those cheating with AI, universities and colleges look for documentation and, thus, many of us use Turnitin.com or other plagiarism detectors. AI detectors so far are unreliable, and that is why few, if any, schools have determined a policy that works for handling cheating via AI.

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Academic Integrity Essay Plagiarism History 116