eSchool News
JUNE 19, 2025
Students’ AI usage can range from summarizing content to full-scale writing support, which begs the question: What can educators do if they suspect an assignment is authored by AI? You could ask about their writing process to try to get a sense of how well they know their own submission. Or you could simply ask if they used AI.
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it.
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Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
If a California community college wants its faculty to be able to detect plagiarism and AI writing in student papers, it can buy software from a company called Turnitin at a discounted price. The system last signed a contract with Turnitin in March of 2024, locking in the company’s basic plagiarism detector for $2.59
Faculty Focus
APRIL 22, 2025
The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? Getting Meta with AI in the Classroom: A Reflective Approach In a junior-level education course, I assigned students the task of writing a reflective paper on the various uses of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in the classroom.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 10, 2025
As Generative AI (GenAI, a subset of AI that can produce content, ideas, and data by learning from existing data and patterns) has become prevalent, so have a wide range of concerns about its usage: authenticity, critical thinking, bias, representation, plagiarism, and sustainability, to name a few. For a while, I felt paralyzed.
Faculty Focus
JUNE 10, 2025
As Generative AI (GenAI, a subset of AI that can produce content, ideas, and data by learning from existing data and patterns) has become prevalent, so have a wide range of concerns about its usage: authenticity, critical thinking, bias, representation, plagiarism, and sustainability, to name a few. For a while, I felt paralyzed.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Gather baseline evidence of writing skills across academic disciplines using a simple, in-class prompt that requires students to provide a claim and supporting evidence in a full paragraph. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.
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