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How plagiarism makes the literacy gap worse

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Plagiarism is becoming ubiquitous in academia as an increase in AI-powered writing tools become more advanced and available to students. As a result, educators are faced with preventing, identifying, and stopping plagiarism even as plagiarism becomes increasingly harder to detect. percent to 49.6

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How to prevent accidental plagiarism in an online world

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You take a student’s essay, start reading it, and it doesn’t feel right. You go to PlagiarismCheck , Copyscape , or any other resource to check that essay for plagiarism and…ta da! The essay has obvious signs of plagiarism. They might plagiarize accidentally. You were right. Here’s how: 1.

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Open LMS Partners With Copyleaks, Adding Advanced AI-Driven Plagiarism and AI Content Detection

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. — Open LMS , a leading global provider of open-source learning management systems (LMSs), today announces its new partnership with Copyleaks , the leading AI-based text analysis, plagiarism identification, and AI-content detection platform. It’s capable of detecting AI content at the sentence level.

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

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Students must be taught to move beyond the first AI response or web result, so they build the essential skills in: Deep reading Source evaluation Contextual comparison Critical synthesis Teachers should avoid giving assignments that limit students to a single source type, especially AI. Do they even understand the content?

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An Easy, Reliable Way to Check for Plagiarism

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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. One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment. The prevailing wisdom seems to be: cc.

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Like it or not, ChatGPT is our new learning partner

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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. ” It takes no more than a few seconds to fill out and read.

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