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

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This time gap matters, especially for fast-changing topics like public health, technology, or current events. 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. Do they even understand the content?

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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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4 ways to use ChatGPT for learning and creativity

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Key points: Educators are worried about AI tools enabling plagiarism and cheating Banning ChatGPT prevents students and educators from using AI in new ways With the rising popularity of ChatGPT, many educators and administrators have trepidation toward the new technology, seeing it as a threat both to students and schools.

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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. But before we open the floodgates to the fascinating world that is the internet, students must understand what it means to thrive as a citizen of that community.

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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.