Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s a quick overview of the legalities associated with their use for schools: Legal Risks and Obligations for Schools Using AI Tutors AI tutors are quickly changing how students learn, offering personalized support across different subjects and formats. Who is responsible if an AI gives bad advice or shares sensitive student data?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Rather than simply acknowledging that students are using AI, we should create opportunities for them to explore practical strategies. This approach will help students better understand and utilize AI as an educational ally, enabling innovative methods for effective classroom integration.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

Redesigning Lessons for Deeper Learning and Student Engagement As much as we’re worried about ‘learning loss,’ our students aren’t going to learn if they’re not first engaged. Let’s create reasons for students to come to school and opportunities to do things that are interesting! Individuals are invited but teams are encouraged.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2025

The [agency] funds allowed schools to gain access to these vetted, reliably curated information sources for students to use for research. It is so important for students to have access to this information to help with their curriculum, their homework, their school journey, especially if their school does not have a library, said Phillips.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2016

I wanted a curriculum that scaffolded learning year-to-year, blended into the school academic program, could be re-formed to apply to any academic topic, differentiated for varied student learning style, and was age-appropriate for the needs of the digital natives populating my classroom. Use tech to differentiate for student needs.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, students engaged in cheating well before tools like ChatGPT became household names. However, students engaged in cheating well before tools like ChatGPT became household names. According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2017

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. Don’t hurry up to blame a student. Don’t hurry up to blame a student.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2023

. — 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. For more information, visit copyleaks.com or follow Copyleaks on LinkedIn.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Serhii Tkachecnko, CEO at Unicheck, shares his thoughts on how educators can teach students about the benefits of plagiarism checking. Students experience an array of emotions toward education: from excitement to boredom. But when it comes to plagiarism checking, most students feel hostile.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Copyleaks, an artificial intelligence platform that detects plagiarism, today announced a partnership today with Canvas, the learning management platform from Instructure, that allows educational institutions to seamlessly enable advanced plagiarism detection software directly within a Canvas account. About Copyleaks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Students have to follow the method prescribed by the school or University.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. Checking student work for possible plagiarism, specifically, has become a time consuming burden for many educators. This is especially important when screening for plagiarism. But time isn’t the only challenge.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Unicheck realizes that more instructors and students will need to have instant access to the plagiarism checker. To assist you in the fight against plagiarism Unicheck is offering to all institutions that have no active Unicheck licenses, they will gladly share free access to Unicheck till June 30. 1 281 912 0548 (US). +1

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2019

But it could make for a practical addition to its growing suite of online educational tools, now used by tens of millions of teachers and students. Upon creating an assignment, a teacher can turn on the originality reports feature, which lets students check their assignments up to three times. Screenshot of Google’s originality report.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. This certainly is not part of the expected college experience for students or parents. Students may also lack confidence in attempting to implement the expected academic guidelines.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Key points: It seems educators are more inclined to use AI compared to students The state of AI: Who is leading AI adoption? Surveying 1,000 students and 250 educators across the United States, the research explores the sentiments, trends, and practical applications of AI.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Instead of forbidding generative AI tools, it’s critical that teachers show students how and when it’s appropriate to use AI in student writing. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Then there is the world of education, where teachers like me are watching AI completely change the way students learn. Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. Have students submit some personal information into a survey (such as their favorite food, animal, or school subject).

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Inform Students First of all, you need to inform your students about the fact that plagiarism will never be tolerated. Though texts generated by AI tools do not exactly fall under the definition of plagiarism, they are still not the student’s work which means the student could suffer consequences for their actions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. But is this the right course of action to take?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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. Does the font change?

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

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. We repost so much so frequently that some platforms, such as Facebook, have been compelled to develop their own citation rules to combat plagiarism.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There may be no more serious issue for a student than facing an academic conduct hearing because of plagiarism. This certainly is not part of the expected college experience for students or parents. Students may also lack confidence in attempting to implement the expected academic guidelines.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

As a result, 28 percent of the students said workers will need to acquire new skills to thrive in the new AI workplace, and more than two thirds are looking to their schools to help position them for future success. The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you take it, that’s plagiarism and–like stealing from a store–carries drastic penalties. That’s why plagiarism checkers are important to me. PlagiarismCheck.org is an online plagiarism checker that uses a sophisticated algorithm to check content for different types of plagiarism.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

While some educators worry that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) might have a negative effect in these areas, many see the positive impact of AI on students’ ability to learn in their preferred languages, improved grades and career readiness. Canada, and in northern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Let students grade each other’s contributions?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Ultimately, students are human beings and they’re going to make bad decisions under stress and pressure,” Bertram Gallant said. I have literally had students tell me I didn’t cheat—I paid them,” Schreiner said. That’s why, instead of punishment, educators might consider incidents of cheating as a teachable moment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What’s more, educators indicate a disparity when it comes to the likelihood of using Generative AI in the classroom, with district and school leaders perceived as less likely to embrace new AI tools when compared to educators and students. “Generative AI is a blend of promise and prudence.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

As a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, I was among those who got a recent campus-wide email with an urgent directive: Don’t use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard or Bing, as doing so “is equivalent to receiving assistance from another person.” Upon reading it, I took a pause. Well, that virtual Aristotle is here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2019

I am constantly amazed at how many students plagiarize schoolwork. I was excited when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Milyn Anne, offered this article explaining the why behind plagiarizing: What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School? Psychological Factors. You are overly confident. Peer Pressure.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

So, how can we help students to see their mistakes so they can correct them? I’ve recommended that my students use Grammarly ( www.grammarly.com/grammar- check ), a free Chrome extension, to help them catch their errors as they compose emails, engage on social media, and write assignments online.

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