eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. How do we evaluate their knowledge? The answer: we ask them.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. Faculty, however, often struggle with creating approaches that focus on why and how academic writing and the associated documenting guidelines enhance a student’s ability to communicate their thoughts and ideas.

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MAY 18, 2023

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. The IB sets criteria and guidelines for the write-up. Many students dread IB essays. So, right off the bat, avoid this pitfall.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Digital literacy: “Learners must be taught how to learn in a digital society,” Ribble writes. 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. It also goes beyond learning how to use today’s technology.

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Mobile Devices Plagiarism Ethics Internet 279

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MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Related : Texting is negatively impacting students’ writing

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

If I were to use Writable to create a rubric for writing and grading funding announcements of the type you might typically see on EdSurge , it might look something like this: The K-12 writing-support tool is not (currently) designed for publications covering startups and venture capital. million seed round for the Palo Alto, Calif.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They apologized for it and said that they really believe that teachers are trying to honor the experiences of Indigenous people by writing lessons that would be shared in classrooms,” says Dupuis, a Toronto-based author and educator who advocates for Indigenous education. Alarmed, she contacted the company directly through Twitter.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI?

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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. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Turnitin has long been the go-to resource for uncovering plagiarism in student work, but there are reasons why that may not be a good choice for you or your students. Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made the workload even heavier, many instructors have felt how awful it is to use an unreliable plagiarism checker.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

apply, analyze, evaluate, create), and have been shown to be an effective way of learning (Lee et al., Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. These tools can serve as a research and writing assistant. 2009; Thistlethwaite et al., What is GenAI?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

Their most common concerns about AI were plagiarism, a lack of teacher training on AI education tools, its potential to spread misinformation and a reduction of student interaction during class. It's going to be really good for writing, not so good for math, as one example. ChatGPT is trained on text data.

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JUNE 23, 2016

What is ‘writing’? What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision. The act of writing, in and of itself, is not enough.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

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AUGUST 27, 2016

New resources and tools in Turnitin’s back-to-school program, “Rethink Feedback,” help K-12 teachers and higher education instructors teach proper methods of attribution and improve student writing skills. Aiming for Integrity Analysis – How well do students understand plagiarism?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The first bucket of products typically boast features like chatbot capability, plagiarism detection and automated essay scoring. These are tools that may be difficult to evaluate holistically, since you have to determine whether the output makes sense on a case-by-case basis. student writing tasks and associated writing responses).

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Essay Evaluation Intelligence Plagiarism 129

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Our default posture may be to become overly punitive as we exert ourselves in ensuring that those who plagiarize (using ChatGPT) are duly brought to “justice.”

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). 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. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). 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. Ted Lieu wants Congress to pass it ”).

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, through AI, students in our EPP are learning how to write more scholarly, which helps them communicate more effectively with their professors, EC-12 students that they work with, and other educators. New Tools of the Trade Our faculty have used Quillbot when ensuring that plagiarism hasn’t been used.

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Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 104

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

2020), I am already grateful for customer service chat bots that allow me to schedule kids’ doctor appointments while waiting in carpool pick-up lines, and for automated digital writing assistants that catch my grammar and spelling errors as I madly fire off a manuscript between committee meetings and fixing dinner.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, through AI, students in our EPP are learning how to write more scholarly, which helps them communicate more effectively with their professors, EC-12 students that they work with, and other educators. New Tools of the Trade Our faculty have used Quillbot when ensuring that plagiarism hasn’t been used.

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Intelligence Education Plagiarism Writing 100

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. Our default posture may be to become overly punitive as we exert ourselves in ensuring that those who plagiarize (using ChatGPT) are duly brought to “justice.”

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, some professors are enthusiastic and see possibilities for brainstorming, breaking blocks to writing, and creating first drafts—essentially preparing students for the world where these technologies are now everyday life. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

However, some professors are enthusiastic and see possibilities for brainstorming, breaking blocks to writing, and creating first drafts—essentially preparing students for the world where these technologies are now everyday life. The discourse regarding the position of AI-generated writing in academia is in its early stages.

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Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

This April, Khan Academy announced “ Khanmigo ”, an AI-powered tutor that provides personalized one-on-one tutoring and real-time guidance to students as they conduct tasks from writing papers to coding software. Students may be plagued by plagiarism concerns. However, students can cheat these software program quite easily.

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Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We like evaluating ideas and sharing thoughts. One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment. One note: Laws addressing plagiarizing differ throughout the world. When is it plagiarizing and when isn’t it. How do you know if you plagiarized?

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Plagiarism Internet Writing Evaluation 108

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. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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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. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content.

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Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98