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

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However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. That makes teaching students to trace information to original sources even more essential. Todays students rarely line up at the reference desk. The stakes are higher.

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5 Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

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Thanks to easy access to internet resources and a serious lack of understanding on the part of many students about what online resources can legally be used, plagiarism has become a huge problem in schools. Plagiarism: Stealing information and references without correct citations cause the problem of plagiarism.

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Come Original: Google Gets Into the Anti-Plagiarism Game

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Google’s originality reports essentially functions as a plagiarism checker, and that idea is hardly new. Just last month, Proctorio, a remote-proctoring company, launched new plagiarism detection tools and made them available in Canvas, a popular learning management system. Screenshot of Google’s originality report.

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How the Internet Neighborhood is Like Any Other Community

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Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. When my 7 th graders sold me on the educational value of Minecraft (an online simulation that teaches geology, minerals, problem solving) at recess, I polled 4 th graders to see who used it.

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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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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

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Work on helping students gain confidence in their writing “AI’s going to be there–we have to go back to best practices in teaching,” Miller said.

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