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Should Instructors Ask Students to Show Document Histories to Guard Against AI Cheating?

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As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Its one of the fastest-growing features in the history of Grammarly, says Jenny Maxwell, head of education at the company.

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How AI can unleash student curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking

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Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. You can even design the story around a subject that your students are studying, such as hurricanes, animal habitats, or an era of history. I won’t minimize the risks. Learning how to prevent abuse of AI will be an issue of serious concern moving forward.

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Language Arts teacher: These are “My Tech Essentials” for high schoolers

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Newsela is a daily updated news-as-literacy platform accumulating articles on History, Science, Health, Law, and Arts. Next page: Language arts apps to avoid plagiarism, develop critical thinking and extend vocab). Engaging the Reading.

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What You Might Have Missed in June–What’s up in July

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How Does A Tool That Detects Cheating With ChatGPT Grapple With ‘False Positives’?

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His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. In practice, it’s proven to be a little thorny.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. And last but not least, some help for all of us amateur Google detectives.

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Tracking the Draft: An Academic Integrity Policy for Cheating with AI 

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In order to write an academic integrity policy for those cheating with AI, universities and colleges look for documentation and, thus, many of us use Turnitin.com or other plagiarism detectors. So, I continued my online search and found how to use Google Docs’ detailed version history by clicking on the arrow by the date next to version.