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Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age

eSchool News

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? You could ask about their writing process to try to get a sense of how well they know their own submission. Do they have early drafts saved?

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

Cal Matters

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it.

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AI as an Educational Ally: Innovative Strategies for Classroom Integration

Faculty Focus

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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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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A Values-Based Approach to Using Gen AI

Faculty Focus

As Generative AI (GenAI, a subset of AI that can produce content, ideas, and data by learning from existing data and patterns) has become prevalent, so have a wide range of concerns about its usage: authenticity, critical thinking, bias, representation, plagiarism, and sustainability, to name a few. For a while, I felt paralyzed.

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A Values-Based Approach to Using Gen AI

Faculty Focus

As Generative AI (GenAI, a subset of AI that can produce content, ideas, and data by learning from existing data and patterns) has become prevalent, so have a wide range of concerns about its usage: authenticity, critical thinking, bias, representation, plagiarism, and sustainability, to name a few. For a while, I felt paralyzed.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Gather baseline evidence of writing skills across academic disciplines using a simple, in-class prompt that requires students to provide a claim and supporting evidence in a full paragraph. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.