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Three Things Teachers Need to Spot—and Stop—Plagiarism

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Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Checking student work for possible plagiarism, specifically, has become a time consuming burden for many educators. This is especially important when screening for plagiarism. But time isn’t the only challenge.

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

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Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new. Just last month, Proctorio, a remote-proctoring company, launched new plagiarism detection tools and made them available in Canvas, a popular learning management system. Screenshot of Google’s originality report.

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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

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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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Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity?

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And the service boasts that its results are “plagiarism free,” meaning they won’t be flagged by plagiarism-detection services. The technology gives new resonance to that old “ infinite monkey theorem ,” which holds that a roomful of monkeys and typewriters, if given enough time, would eventually compose the works of Shakespeare.

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A cautious approach to using AI in education

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And like so many technologies before it, companies are now in a rush to find ways to monetize and adopt AI, applying the technology to customer service, law enforcement, transportation–and education. In fact, this is what the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology recommended back in May.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. In 2014 the company acquired Ephorus, a Europe-based plagiarism detection tool, and Lightside Labs, which provides automated feedback on student writing.

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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

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Her comments came during a June 18 virtual panel organized by Pando Public Relations, a public outreach agency for education, to discuss academic integrity and cheating in college. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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