Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Providing comprehensive and skill-aligned feedback on student essays is time-consuming, and educators often wish they could offer more support during a student’s writing process. Early adopters of Writable ’s AI-powered tools have reported significant timesaving benefits that extend their capacity as teachers.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time. But despite early pushback by students and some professors, plagiarism detection has become ubiquitous. Hire better teachers instead.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

He was one of several professors who outlined their objections to the practice on a blog post last month of a joint task force on AI and writing organized by two prominent academic groups the Modern Language Association and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.” But the marketing language on these sites boast of providing papers tailor made for an assignment, and promise to keep the communication with customers secret.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. During her years in the classroom, West-Smith developed a conviction that every student, not just those headed to college, can be an effective communicator. Prompts, Essays and More. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 133

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

ChatGPT was just the first in a wave of new AI tools designed to mimic human communication via text. 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 Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

ChatGPT was just the first in a wave of new AI tools designed to mimic human communication via text. 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 Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. I remind students of the five-paragraph essay, synonyms, plan-revise-edit-rewrite, persuasive essays, letter writing, or whatever fits the day’s lesson. The student may be a weak typist but an excellent communicator.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Students 89

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 109

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

This focuses on recording words that are then communicated to others. They learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience, and they begin to adapt the form and content of their writing to accomplish a particular task and purpose. Elementary-High School.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 91

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

Before we adopted Google Classroom, I used to check all of the essays in my class via Google Search, copying and pasting the written fragments of text into the browser if I had doubts. GoGuardian chat helps to communicate important announcements personally so that no one in the class gets interrupted. Checking the written assignments.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 93

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. link] Fleckenstein, J., Keller, S. Kller, O., & Mller, J.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While acknowledging AI’s impressive capabilities, she also cautions about potential risks like plagiarism and the dissemination of misinformation (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). Nuanced Communication: AI struggles with nuanced communication and understanding context. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While acknowledging AI’s impressive capabilities, she also cautions about potential risks like plagiarism and the dissemination of misinformation (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). Nuanced Communication: AI struggles with nuanced communication and understanding context. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1).

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 107

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

ChatGPT-generated history of generative AI and ChatGPT [1] Generative AI “refers to a category of artificial intelligence techniques that involve the generation of new and original content, such as text, images, music, and more” (ChatGPT, personal communication, May 18, 2023).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication. Plagiarism. It’s about writing, communicating, sharing, perspective-taking, and collaboration. Cyber-bullying. How to search. Cyberbullying.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 87

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Mike Kentz is an early adopter of the idea of bringing this fingerprinting technique to the classroom, and he argues that the approach “ flips the script ” on the usual way to check for plagiarism or AI. And it's the idea that we each have a unique way of communicating that can be patterned, it can be tracked, it can be identified.

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Essay Local Government Writing Plagiarism 201