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

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A deep search tool might include academic preprints from 2024, but not peer-reviewed journal articles published yesterday. Ethical AI use and academic integrity Generative AI tools introduce powerful possibilities including significant reductions, as well as a new frontier of plagiarism and uncritical thinking.

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2024: The year of generative AI

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Project-based assessments, peer reviews, and interactive simulations offer students opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in diverse and meaningful ways. Ethical and critical engagement with AI : As students interact with AI tools, they also learn to critically evaluate the information and outputs provided by these systems.

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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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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., In a world where AI skills and fluency will be necessary and marketable, colleges and universities have made efforts to embrace AI in the classroom (e.g.,

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How to assess your district’s digital readiness

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And, CoSN has created a new fee-for-service CoSN Peer Review process using this Matrix to determine how a district aligns to best practices by expert external peers. Ethics and Policies: Policies operationalize the vision. Key is ensuring that instructional goals precede technological goals.

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Higher Ed Has Become ‘An Entrepreneurial and Philanthropic Wild West’

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That is both an organizational and an ethical frontier. And what I and several others across the country have been trying to do is to have an ethical conversation that gets out in front of that domain so that when an inevitable data catastrophe happens, we won’t start the ethical conversation from zero. It was my classroom.

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

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After all, academic research often requires deeper knowledge of a field than is typical in high school, and it involves carefully following ethical guidelines to protect research subjects from potential harm that students may not be aware of without expert guidance. “A No peer reviewed journal would publish this work, she adds.