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students to write well goes back decades. Newsweek published its ballyhooed screed Why Johnny Can’t Write in 1975. This past summer, The New York Times chimed in with Why Kids Can’t Write. Who says Americans can’t write?) Legions of parents and educators have their eye on the problem. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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JULY 27, 2020

Valerie Schreiner, chief product officer at plagiarism detection service provider Turnitin, said the cost continues to decrease to hire someone to write your paper or gain remote access to a computer to take an exam. “I I have literally had students tell me I didn’t cheat—I paid them,” Schreiner said.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As trusted mentors and professional development leaders, they guide teachers in implementing AI tools thoughtfully, ensuring that technology enhances student learning while aligning with pedagogical best practices. They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics.

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MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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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. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. The instructions below explain how to use GenAI to write an intimate debate; however, GenAI could be used to write cases in any format. What is GenAI?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They apologized for it and said that they really believe that teachers are trying to honor the experiences of Indigenous people by writing lessons that would be shared in classrooms,” says Dupuis, a Toronto-based author and educator who advocates for Indigenous education.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity?

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APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. The instructions below explain how to use GenAI to write an intimate debate; however, GenAI could be used to write cases in any format. What is GenAI?

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JULY 11, 2023

The case raises a point of contention over the use of algorithmic writing detectors — tests of the software have found a high percentage of “false positives” — and there are now examples of cases when accusations that students used AI turned out to be unsubstantiated or were later dropped. In practice, it’s proven to be a little thorny.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I I do not think public education leaders will have much of a choice in whether or not to answer when Amazon comes to knock and deliver,” he writes.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Some users have lauded the tool as a means to get away with plagiarism. It’s what you write, not how you write it,” says Gupta, 24. “We While most writing and grammar tools in the industry can offer simple practice and feedback, they have yet to reach a level where they support critical thinking and deeper comprehension. “As

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JANUARY 30, 2020

In some cases those investigations led to legal action against companies offering paper-writing services, says Lelo. Using software to check for contract cheating Companies that have long made tools to check for plagiarism have recently introduced products designed to check for contract cheating.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

More than 600 exhibitors and 34,000 attendees are expected to descend on London this week for the annual Bett show , where some companies come with a barrage of updates befitting one of the biggest education technology trade shows in the world. Or so it feels.) 2 pencil, instead of a stylus.

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MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

One of the most exciting advancements is the emergence of generative AI, a technology that can help produce entirely new creations with just a few directives. Of course, like with all new technology in education, the promise is coupled with uncertainty.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Their most common concerns about AI were plagiarism, a lack of teacher training on AI education tools, its potential to spread misinformation and a reduction of student interaction during class. It's going to be really good for writing, not so good for math, as one example. ChatGPT is trained on text data.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2018

Technology Helps Teachers Prevent and Mitigate Bad Behavior in the Classroom. While most teachers want to believe the best about their students, the reality is that skipping class, plagiarism and a host of other issues are behavioral challenges teachers grapple with daily. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/13/2018 - 10:17.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

I would read just the instructions from a customer and I would think, ‘This person couldn’t write the paper if they tried,’” he says. 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.” And no plagiarism!”

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision. The act of writing, in and of itself, is not enough.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’ve seen two major kinds of AI-based education tools: those that operate by themselves and are fully automated, and those that assist and gradually learn from teachers, students, and administrators as they use the products. student writing tasks and associated writing responses).

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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. Here you will find everything you need to know about AI in education so you can determine for yourself.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For instance, custom paper-writing services offer students work tailored exactly to what the professor has assigned. Are you seeing these term-paper writing services getting more aggressive these days? Now they … say basically, "You don't have time to write your paper, we're here for you. Don't worry about it." So that shifted.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Micro-Writing is Having a Macro Impact on Identity Development by Bryan Christopher If you’re a teacher, chances are you’ve used a micro-writing activity at some point. 17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom by Stephen Noonoo The latest Google must-haves for educators? Happy New Year!

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It’s called Degreed Skills Certification, and it scores people’s existing skills in various categories, including writing, sales, coaching, c# programming, photography and leadership. He says Degreed is also working with partners to bring plagiarism checks into the process.

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JULY 29, 2020

I wrote a book about plagiarism in which I basically concluded that most of the time, the problem is an educational problem and a motivation problem rather than an enforcement problem. The goal is to create meaningful work that students are engaged in so that they have the tools to achieve what we've asked them to do.

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JULY 11, 2023

Bier: We're asking students to write these questions not because we're looking for free labor, but because we think it's actually going to be helpful for them as they develop their own knowledge. I'd also like to throw out that plagiarism detectors for ChatGPT are terrible right now. Do not use those, please.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Christianity Today 68 (1): 7392. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D. Using Achievement Goal-Based Personalized Motivational Feedback to Enhance Online Learning.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (2): 55381. Christianity Today 68 (1): 7392. Wang, Huanhuan, and James D. Using Achievement Goal-Based Personalized Motivational Feedback to Enhance Online Learning.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Within a couple of days, he got really excited by the quality of the writing it produced. Most people seemed interested in asking the chatbot for jokes or stories, Alex says, but he was “instantly intrigued with the idea of using it to write a paper.” The writing could be awkward. The chatbot was good, he says—really good.

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MAY 7, 2024

It’s called “linguistic fingerprinting,” where linguistic techniques are used to determine whether a text has been written by a specific person based on analysis of their previous writings. He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education.

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DECEMBER 25, 2019

TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling by Emily Tate On June 30, Amazon shut down TenMarks, a popular online math and writing tool. (Yes, stay tuned for our 2019 analysis.) The company had notified school leaders in March 2018, and many have been scrambling to find a replacement. Here’s why. billion.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2025

But experts have also raised ethical concerns about how student data is used (and misused) by AI companies, how students can use AI for cheating and plagiarism, the erosion of critical thinking skills , and the spread of misinformation. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? Does that sound like you?

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MAY 19, 2025

But when you have students that are trying to write papers, and you have kids that are getting information from nonreputable websites and media sources Kids plug things into ChatGPT and they think theyre getting great information. They dont understand a lot of it is plagiarized. They dont even know what the original sources are.

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