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

Cal Matters

First: Students’ cell phones are laid out on a table by the door in Adam Kaiserman’s English class at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita. Last: Students take notes during Adam Kaiserman’s English class at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita on May 6, 2025.

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5 ways I’ve leveraged AI in my English classroom

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Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus. To begin, I wrote a thorough prompt, telling it: “You’re a high school English teacher who wants to teach an inquiry-based mythology class with self-directed learning.

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Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey

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The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.

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I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class — and My Students Loved It

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In my current summer Composition II course, I started with an experiment: students uploaded our syllabus to ChatGPT, introduced themselves using a custom prompt about their background, goals and past experiences with writing, and asked the AI to identify what they might enjoy, what could challenge them and how the course might help them grow. “I

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How Books Became a Mirror to See Myself — and a Window to Learning for My Students

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Creating Mirrors and Windows In my English classroom, I strive to offer texts that serve as both mirrors and windows for my students, empowering them to see their own lives reflected in the narratives we read and to gain insights into the experiences of others. Then, I ask students the following questions: Who writes the stories?

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

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But this year, with the arrival of the World Cup, I came prepared, and my students knew it when they saw our sports journalism unit built into the syllabus on the first day. Still, by and large, I’m an extreme disappointment to my student-athletes and sports fans alike. Are these days blocked off for the World Cup?!” they exclaimed.

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10 Inspired Tech Trends Every Teacher Should Know About

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This year, though, San Diego English teacher Jen Roberts challenged herself to turn a fellow teacher’s creation into a collaborative, sharable template. “I I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “I

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