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Gen Z educators embrace AI tools more often than Gen X

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Key points: Most educators want AI policies that strengthen the human side of education Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age You’re using ChatGPT? AI in Education , a s urvey of U.S. Just 26 percent of Gen Z educators think students use AI to save time on schoolwork, compared to 34 percent of non-educator Gen Z respondents.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

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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. Turnitin has become so valuable that in 2019 Advance Publications paid $1.75

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Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age

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Students’ AI usage can range from summarizing content to full-scale writing support, which begs the question: What can educators do if they suspect an assignment is authored by AI? The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye.

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

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Ethically : Know when AI use is appropriate and how to avoid misuse (like plagiarism or cheating). That’s where the SEE Framework comes in: Safely : Understand privacy concerns and avoid unsafe tools or prompts. When students internalize these values, AI becomes a tool for empowerment, not a shortcut for evasion.

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Turnitin charged some California colleges 3 times more for the same plagiarism detector

Cal Matters

If a California community college wants its faculty to be able to detect plagiarism and AI writing in student papers, it can buy software from a company called Turnitin at a discounted price. And the UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education paid more than double that, $6.50 That year, UC Berkeley paid $2.11 per student.

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AI as an Educational Ally: Innovative Strategies for Classroom Integration

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Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. This approach will help students better understand and utilize AI as an educational ally, enabling innovative methods for effective classroom integration.

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

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However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. The educators role is more important than ever. Todays students rarely line up at the reference desk. The stakes are higher. The tools are smarter.