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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. Most of these campuses have licensed Turnitin’s plagiarism detector since 2014. I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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Ensuring academic integrity in the AI age

eSchool News

The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye. Hopefully this is a helpful guide to anyone navigating the nuances of AI plagiarism. You can’t place a finger on exactly what, but it doesn’t sound like your student.

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You’re using ChatGPT? A true story about why AI literacy starts with us

eSchool News

Ethically : Know when AI use is appropriate and how to avoid misuse (like plagiarism or cheating). That’s where the SEE Framework comes in: Safely : Understand privacy concerns and avoid unsafe tools or prompts. When students internalize these values, AI becomes a tool for empowerment, not a shortcut for evasion.

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

eSchool News

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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AI as an Educational Ally: Innovative Strategies for Classroom Integration

Faculty Focus

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? To scaffold their analysis, I provided a couple of foundational readings on AI, alongside an article of their choosing, see Roose, 2023 and Gates, 2023 citations. Lets confront the reality: students are using AI.

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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects. That doesn’t mean you need to skip important concepts or simplify complex topics, but it does mean you can make your instruction more applicable to their lives.

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Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. Affirm personal interests by letting students know you cared enough to read their inventories.