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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The insight comes from the 2024 AI in Academia Study by Copyleaks. Key findings from the study include: Frequent AI usage Thirty-four percent of educators use AI very frequently to draft or review assignments, showing high adoption among educators. The report offers a comprehensive look at AI’s role in education.

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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. Rather than using the dictionary or Wikipedia, we can guide students to use experts in the field of study who are equipped to offer viewpoints and discussions needed to fully understand the foundational elements.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

According to a new study from Academic Help , 67 percent of students use AI for creating texts – the basis for their essays and other papers. Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

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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. Rather than using the dictionary or Wikipedia, we can guide students to use experts in the field of study who are equipped to offer viewpoints and discussions needed to fully understand the foundational elements.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. What is a case study? 2009; Thistlethwaite et al.,

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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. Peer Pressure. Everybody’s doing it, right?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Already we’re seeing students use AI to plagiarize or cheat on their assignments. You can even design the story around a subject that your students are studying, such as hurricanes, animal habitats, or an era of history. I won’t minimize the risks. Learning how to prevent abuse of AI will be an issue of serious concern moving forward.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

According to a recent Common Sense Media’s study , the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. To hear author Mike Ribble tell it, kids are entering school with some exposure to technology—meaning schools won’t be making a first impression.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. What is a case study? 2009; Thistlethwaite et al.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this article, Rose writes about a little-known problem that students may unknowingly suffer from that may make it look like they are plagiarizing when–to them–they aren’t. Carl Jung studied this issue and discovered that cryptomnesia is a common part of the memory processes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The majority (62 percent) of those queried suggested that schools offer guidance on the ethics of using AI, including boundaries related to AI content creation, misuse, and plagiarism.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee. To encourage students to share their notes or other study aids, Course Hero gives out free credits for uploading, which means that students can avoid the subscription cost if they send in enough materials.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You don’t get to build a tool and then get to say, ‘I didn’t intend it to be used that way,’” says David Parry, an associate professor of communication and media studies at Saint Joseph’s University. “He But despite early pushback by students and some professors, plagiarism detection has become ubiquitous. Hire better teachers instead.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Dupuis’ story is far from an isolated case, and the site has struggled for years with allegations of plagiarism , racist lesson plans and poor content quality—all of which are regularly discussed on social media. Yet Teachers Pay Teachers has remained enduringly popular with educators.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Fuel Ed’s full-time school solution also includes benchmark and formative assessments; an anti-plagiarism tool; a web-based counseling system; and a variety of live and online student and parent resources available through the Strong Start program.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

Through their conversation, it became evident that the student had utilized ChatGPT to better understand the context of the art he was studying in the time period it was created. Rather than relying on this score alone, his teacher called him to discuss the assignment. This example highlights that using an AI tool isn’t “bad.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

along with study guides and a discount on a separate tutoring service for premium subscribers. Since then, the platform has grown to include soft skill guides on subjects including how to improve study skills or how to prepare for the job market. We want to help them study better. Subscribers to Pearson Plus pay $9.99

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Global learning platform Quizlet today announced a series of new study tools designed to help students return to the classroom with renewed confidence this school year. Brain Beats: With Brain Beats, students can automatically turn their flashcards into a song to enhance studying, using a tune to aid in memorization.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consider this response to a query that asked AI to apply Watson’s Carative Factors to a case study: One way to apply Watson’s carative factors to a case study is to use them as a framework for analyzing a patient’s care experience. AI writers seem to have plagiarism issues.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Designing assignments that are more difficult to cheat on Harper helped lead a large-scale study on how to address contract cheating by improving the assignments given by universities, which produced an extensive website with resources and recommendations. We were suspicious of that.” We never claim to be certain,” she says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Additionally, prefer picking topics relevant to your field of study that have not been broadly researched. This will help you to support the validity of your study. Pen Down the Body of the Paper The body of the document should contain the main content of your study. Also, the sources you use must be credible and reliable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons. Plagiarism Checkers: The Benefits Students Fail to See. Ways to Use AI-Powered Quillionz to Assess Student Understanding. 100th Day of School — Make it about Learning. How to Talk to a Tech Teacher (humorous). Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching. 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2019.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

Lessons learned and suggested practices When I first started teaching many years ago, I was not sympathetic to those who plagiarized. APA formatting or other writing styles, writing center assistance, plagiarism dos and don’ts, etc.), Academic institutions can have a healthy balance between addressing plagiarism and providing support.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2018

While most teachers want to believe the best about their students, the reality is that skipping class, plagiarism and a host of other issues are behavioral challenges teachers grapple with daily. In a study at Cleburne High School in Texas, administrators found this to be especially true.

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Technology Teachers Plagiarism Teaching Methods 144

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Corwin Press. Nilson, L.

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Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

Plagiarism in the classroom is when students try to turn in an assignment that they did not write. However, with the advent of AI language models that can write completely unique papers for students, how can a teacher know if a paper is plagiarized when traditional plagiarism checkers fail?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Initial growth came as a repository for students to share course specific material such as tests, quizzes, study guides and lecture notes. Shadows of plagiarism and accusations from higher-ed faculty that it enabled cheating stalked the company’s early years. Course Hero was founded in 2006.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Others described how the devices have fostered more cheating and plagiarism during class. Another wrote that the phones enable students to “bring the drama of outside life (friends, family) into the classroom which used to be a place where they could get away from such things.” It can get intense.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It had only been a few weeks into the semester, and we had already sent dozens of students’ names to administrators to report this new version of plagiarism. As it turns out, ChatGPT studied these same formulaic patterns, and the students picked up on them instantly. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If movies sometimes employ stunt doubles, perhaps the online equivalent is a Study Double. After a Study Double successfully completed two Georgetown online courses for Littlefair, the mother wrote Singer again saying they were “going to need help for sure with one more course.” Such a provision has not made it into the rules, however.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2016

Aiming for Integrity Analysis – How well do students understand plagiarism? Compiling over 12,500 data points from over 25,000 responses to Turnitin’s Plagiarism Quiz , this report helps educators understand student perceptions of plagiarism and citation methods.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Word-Phrase-Sentence In our study of plagiarism, we read a short article about a researcher who had their work retracted because of a plagiarism issue. With this feedback, I was able to pivot our instruction to include more time and strategies to find additional sources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2015

In the education subscription , students (and teachers) can check for plagiarism. plagiarism. plagiarism. Grammarly is a quick way to check student work for plagiarism. In many studies, it had a high accuracy score and recognized a wide variety of common grammatical errors. punctuation. sentence structure.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Traditional writing studies (whatever that is) has pushed for the dominance of a rote, syntactically vanilla standard (whatever that is) for centuries. Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

My focus has primarily been on things like learning management systems and proctoring services and plagiarism-detection services and that sort of thing,” he told EdSurge this week. There is still the fact that the service offers materials to help students study that in some cases are the answer keys to a test.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Corwin Press. Nilson, L.

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