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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

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With deepfake photographs proliferating the internet, using a reputable image data base is essential, and students must be taught how and where to find such resources. Internet-only assignments: Still a trap Then as now, its unwise to require students to use only specific sources, or only generative AI, for research.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

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Those reasons may include: lack of writing skills, insecurity around writing skills, struggles with time management, confusion about the topic, missing grammar and organizational skills, having no motivation or interest, missing real-world relevance, poor work ethic, lack of access to resources, and home/personal life stress.

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The 9 essential elements of digital citizenship

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That includes how to use various technologies and internet applications and how to use that technology effectively—such as searching for, evaluating, and curating information. Digital literacy: “Learners must be taught how to learn in a digital society,” Ribble writes. It also goes beyond learning how to use today’s technology.

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High school students say AI will change the workforce

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The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. How can high schools prepare students for the future world of AI?

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An Easy, Reliable Way to Check for Plagiarism

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T he unauthorized use of another’s creative content has always been a problem but with the growth of the Internet, it’s become epidemic. This, of course, isn’t true but the rules and laws surrounding plagiarism and copyrights aren’t nearly as well-known as those that deal with, say, driving a car or crossing a street.

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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. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. It’s no wonder, then, that plagiarism is on the rise.

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Here’s the Easiest Way to Check for Plagiarism

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One of the biggest problems facing digital natives as they grow into adults is understanding how to maneuver the vastness of the Internet ethically, safely, and to serve their needs. If you take it, that’s plagiarism and–like stealing from a store–carries drastic penalties. What is PlagiarismCheck.org.