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? Psychological Factors. Peer Pressure. Everybody’s doing it, right?

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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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. What is a case study? 2009; Thistlethwaite et al.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee. This is the engine that lets it boast a library of “30-million course-specific study materials.” Study Help or Study Replacement?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. What is a case study? 2009; Thistlethwaite et al.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. Through their conversation, it became evident that the student had utilized ChatGPT to better understand the context of the art he was studying in the time period it was created. This example highlights that using an AI tool isn’t “bad.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

along with study guides and a discount on a separate tutoring service for premium subscribers. per semester for what it calls Cengage Unlimited, its full e-library, and another $50 for access to a related homework system that professors often assign with the textbook. We want to help them study better. higher education product.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In a recent staff editorial in the Daily Illini, the student paper at the University of Illinois, students made a forceful case calling for professors to design better assignments and tests instead of turning to surveillance tools. But despite early pushback by students and some professors, plagiarism detection has become ubiquitous.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Designing assignments that are more difficult to cheat on Harper helped lead a large-scale study on how to address contract cheating by improving the assignments given by universities, which produced an extensive website with resources and recommendations. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consider this response to a query that asked AI to apply Watson’s Carative Factors to a case study: One way to apply Watson’s carative factors to a case study is to use them as a framework for analyzing a patient’s care experience. AI writers seem to have plagiarism issues. This is concerning.

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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. Additionally, prefer picking topics relevant to your field of study that have not been broadly researched. This will help you to support the validity of your study. Let’s dive into the details.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

Lessons learned and suggested practices When I first started teaching many years ago, I was not sympathetic to those who plagiarized. I saw it as if they either cheated or didn’t cheat, and if they did, they received a zero on the applicable assignment, and I reported the incident to the university. writing format materials (i.e.,

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

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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. As it turns out, ChatGPT studied these same formulaic patterns, and the students picked up on them instantly. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices.

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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. However, with the advent of AI language models that can write completely unique papers for students, how can a teacher know if a paper is plagiarized when traditional plagiarism checkers fail?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

But many experts on contract cheating say that the people who use the services are often working adults who are struggling to balance their jobs and studies, or those who may not be adequately prepared for college and unaware of the legitimate support services campuses provide. And no plagiarism!” But, luckily, I found Edubirdie.com.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

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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. Lets confront the reality: students are using AI.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consider this response to a query that asked AI to apply Watson’s Carative Factors to a case study: One way to apply Watson’s carative factors to a case study is to use them as a framework for analyzing a patient’s care experience. AI writers seem to have plagiarism issues. This is concerning.

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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. In a pilot study I conducted last spring with partners at Writable , one teacher stated: “My students don't like writing just for me. More Writing Resources.

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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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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For instance, custom paper-writing services offer students work tailored exactly to what the professor has assigned. So when they first started, [they’d say] “We're here to help you and provide a study aid.” So am I, let's study together." We’ve been exploring that tension in recent weeks with a series on the cheating economy.

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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. According to a McKinsey’s study, teachers spend over 20 percent of their time just preparing for class. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. To be clear, neither these studies nor this article argues for indiscriminate copying in classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. To be clear, neither these studies nor this article argues for indiscriminate copying in classrooms.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

A well-known fact: A large portion of every teacher’s workflow is actually consumed by the assignment review, collecting the student work, notifying the class about upcoming events, changes in the timetable, revision, and grading. Here the learners use the study cards, play educational games, and take tests that will be graded automatically.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

Nearly any writing prompt one might assign to be completed outside of class (with a few notable exceptions) can be written pretty well, quickly, at no cost, and undetectable by our current plagiarism software by anyone who takes a little time to learn the nuances of ChatGPT.

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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

Nearly any writing prompt one might assign to be completed outside of class (with a few notable exceptions) can be written pretty well, quickly, at no cost, and undetectable by our current plagiarism software by anyone who takes a little time to learn the nuances of ChatGPT.

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Robert Kaplinsky

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When I studied artificial intelligence at UCLA in the late 1990s, chat bots were about as sophisticated as AI got. These assignments are familiar, creative and allow your students to become truly engaged with what theyre learning. It gave the name of the person it plagiarized the entire article from! ”, I was done.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. Eventually, he says that the papers he and the bot were creating together passed plagiarism checkers with ease. It turns out that the makers of TurnItIn, one of the most widely used plagiarism detection tools, aren’t breaking a sweat.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I’ll amend that slightly to say that the dying group of technology lab teachers do address it, but most of them self-report to me that it is treated like a unit of study — one and done. Now it’s available as a versatile image file to add to profiles, blogs, and anywhere else an avatar spices up an assignment.

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