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How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism

eSchool News

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. Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. 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.

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How plagiarism makes the literacy gap worse

eSchool News

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

eSchool News

The writing structure, word constructions, and deductions are unlike this mentee of yours! 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. Teach Paraphrasing.

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Favorite Chrome Extension for Writing: Grammarly

Catlin Tucker

Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Students can also create a document in their Grammarly account and begin writing directly on that document to catch errors as they write.

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How to teach writing skills in the ChatGPT era

eSchool News

Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. AI tools are on the rise, and students use them for different purposes: Grammar checking Citation generation Plagiarism checking Generating topic ideas, outlines, and reference lists for academic papers Like it or not, AI is here.

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How to (correctly!) use ChatGPT for essay writing

eSchool News

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. So, plagiarism checkers don’t see them as copied. We know that technologies affect how people read, write, and think. ChatGPT generates original texts.

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