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APRIL 29, 2024

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here, we delve into practical tips and strategies to transform your writing from good to great, ensuring your essays are clear, compelling, and academically rigorous.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. This means that students will soon be able to use GIA to complete their homework, write essays, and even create their own works of art.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. One key question is, “How do school and district leaders ensure academic integrity as new technologies continue to emerge, like generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and more?”

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Edsurge

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. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. My favorite moments are always when a student arrives to class breathless telling me they’ve scrapped an entire essay.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ChatGPT can be used for a variety of text-based tasks such as having a conversation, answering questions, writing content, and more.” Most importantly, it’s a legit way to avoid plagiarism and learn how to analyze and process information. ” That is so human-like, it’s scary. Highlighted Parts.

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MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. Check out the free sample essays from PapersOwl , where you’ll find a wide range of ideas from which you can choose the most fascinating one for yourself. Using a free plagiarism checker or other digital tools help you ensure the originality of your work.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? Some departments have made tests take-home or open-note, and some have scrapped tests entirely in favor of essays, projects and other assignments that can be done over time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

This problem has the potential to question our entire industry, or at least put it into question,” says Adel Lelo, a senior principal product manager at Western Governors University. Another plagiarism-detection company, Unicheck, also offers a product that it says can help colleges address contract cheating.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Several reasonable questions come to mind: What exactly is it? Below are a few questions to help educators and investors make sense of it all, especially right after an entrepreneur mentions how well his or her convolutional neural net is working. How can we trust it? And does it address real pain points for teachers and students?

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

GIA is a type of AI that can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. This means that students will soon be able to use GIA to complete their homework, write essays, and even create their own works of art.

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Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Ethics 130

Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

Plagiarism in the classroom is when students try to turn in an assignment that they did not write. However, with the advent of AI language models that can write completely unique papers for students, how can a teacher know if a paper is plagiarized when traditional plagiarism checkers fail?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. I need to know,” she says, “what every student in the room knows about the question I asked. Prompts, Essays and More. Prompts, Essays and More. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based Not just the one or two who have their hands up.

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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. I enjoy using generative AI to draft engaging class discussion questions and even synthesize education research.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too? Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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JULY 22, 2015

Each year, add a few more from this list of nineteen digital citizenship topics including cyberbullying, digital footprint, digital law, fair use and public domain, copyrights, plagiarism, social media, and digital commerce. The question is: Will they participate safely? Internet use.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too? Only if we listen with equal parts openness and alarm.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It’s a problem thesis that has convinced others to write (a check, that is), including Omidyar Technology Ventures, which is leading a $3.2 based company.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Now, the risk includes theft from technology: if AI produced knowledge (such as a ChatGPT produced essay) gets passed off as a student’s, that student has stolen from the AI.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Now, the risk includes theft from technology: if AI produced knowledge (such as a ChatGPT produced essay) gets passed off as a student’s, that student has stolen from the AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

That’s not just for essays or reports but slideshows, blog posts, comments in forums, and more. I remind students of the five-paragraph essay, synonyms, plan-revise-edit-rewrite, persuasive essays, letter writing, or whatever fits the day’s lesson. Use technology to produce and publish writing.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Students 90

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2018

Questioning the students. Sure thing, simple questioning can still be performed in the Google forms, but Quizlet is what helped me to make the whole process engaging and interactive at once. Checking the written assignments. This kind of quality control of the written assignments appeared to be kind of random and ineffective.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While acknowledging AI’s impressive capabilities, she also cautions about potential risks like plagiarism and the dissemination of misinformation (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). The Review | Essay. Nuanced Communication: AI struggles with nuanced communication and understanding context. 2024, July 1). 2024, June 5).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While acknowledging AI’s impressive capabilities, she also cautions about potential risks like plagiarism and the dissemination of misinformation (American Federation of Teachers, 2023). The Review | Essay. Nuanced Communication: AI struggles with nuanced communication and understanding context. 2024, July 1). 2024, June 5).

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

After some reflection, I have come to believe that, in the long run, worrying about how students might use AI to cheat is not the most productive question to focus on. The better question is, even in the era of AI, how can we best teach our students? Employ plagiarism checkers. Or maybe we’re panicking about another Y2K.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

After some reflection, I have come to believe that, in the long run, worrying about how students might use AI to cheat is not the most productive question to focus on. The better question is, even in the era of AI, how can we best teach our students? Employ plagiarism checkers. Or maybe we’re panicking about another Y2K.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98