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JANUARY 9, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Serhii Tkachecnko, CEO at Unicheck, shares his thoughts on how educators can teach students about the benefits of plagiarism checking. But when it comes to plagiarism checking, most students feel hostile. Instead of being intimidated by plagiarism checking, why not educate students on its benefits?

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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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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 145

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APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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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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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Providing comprehensive and skill-aligned feedback on student essays is time-consuming, and educators often wish they could offer more support during a student’s writing process. Writable’ s AI-suggested comments, also available in Spanish, provide ongoing, rubric-aligned commentary for students through the drafting process.

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JULY 22, 2015

Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). mouse skills. Each year, add those that are age-appropriate, scaffolding from those already learned.

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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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MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. The primary purpose of encouraging students to jot down a research paper is to assess their writing and research skills. You can collect information from various citing sources, including journals, books, articles, and free essays online resources.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

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JANUARY 30, 2020

The study found that students were more likely to cheat when the assignments did not feel authentic or connected to skills they might later need in the workplace. “Be For instance, Turnitin, one of the largest makers of software that colleges use to check student papers for plagiarism, now sells an add-on service called Turnitin Originality.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 163

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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Plagiarism Essay Teachers Assignments 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. This establishes a baseline of each students writing style, vocabulary, and skills.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

based educational software company best known for its plagiarism-detection tools. Kids don’t have enough opportunities to practice their writing skills,” West-Smith says, “and teachers don’t have enough opportunities to reflect on what is working. Prompts, Essays and More. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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MARCH 27, 2015

George Orwell lamented in his 1946 essay “ Politics and the English Language , that: “Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.”. plagiarism. plagiarism. Set-up is easy. punctuation.

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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. How can I use AI as a teacher?

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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. These skills are part of their knowledge base for word processing.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Students 90

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.

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance. What a strange moment where we don’t know who we are.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S. Ultimately, the “effective use of ChatGPT is becoming a highly valued skill, impacting workforce demands” (Canales, 2023, para.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S. Ultimately, the “effective use of ChatGPT is becoming a highly valued skill, impacting workforce demands” (Canales, 2023, para.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance. What a strange moment where we don’t know who we are.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

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MARCH 22, 2018

Before we adopted Google Classroom, I used to check all of the essays in my class via Google Search, copying and pasting the written fragments of text into the browser if I had doubts. At recess, I usually input the new vocabulary words in Quizlet, with cards and audio files so that students could access them later while doing the homework.

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Quizzes Essay Learning Assignments 94

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. Text both photos to a colleague and brag about your decluttering skills.

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eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 111

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JUNE 23, 2016

Sure, “share knowledge” works better with appropriate transition words and comma placement, but those sorts of skills better fit ‘language’ than ‘writing’ Writing is about the thoughtfulness and creativity required to communicate based on audience, task and purpose. Wasted, fluff words aren’t an option.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 92

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). Critical Thinking Skills: AI is primarily focused on providing information and completing tasks, rather than fostering critical thinking skills.

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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). Critical Thinking Skills: AI is primarily focused on providing information and completing tasks, rather than fostering critical thinking skills.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faced with the stress of having too much to do, faculty are impoverished as they rush to design assignments to outwit ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that can write essays, or figure out how to get students to come to virtual office hours. Text both photos to a colleague and brag about your decluttering skills. Declutter your online course.

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eLearning Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Assignments 98

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. The course’s culminating assignment is meant to give them one last opportunity to bring together all the fine arts knowledge/skills learned throughout the semester.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

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APRIL 4, 2019

Applied Digital Skills. Plagiarism. Teaching a three-week course in keyboarding at the end of the school year, where class time is used to teach typing skill s while completing an authentic project, will excite students who thought they had to slog through another unit in American History or Calculus. Applied Digital Skills.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

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Plagiarism Essay Assignments Languages 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. I thought it was a game changer and kicked myself for my poor research skills because the chatbot had me beat right down to its use of digital object identifiers (DOI) for the articles it presented. The ubiquitous essay is still relevant despite ChatGPT.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Languages 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98