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How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism

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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

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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

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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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AI writing tools can be disruptive–here are 5 ways to counteract their influence

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Key points: Educators should clearly communicate rules and expectations for AI It’s also worth keeping an open mind and learning a bit more about how AI tools work The discussion around the influence of AI writing on education has never been so active – all thanks to the launch of ChatGPT last year.

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How to prevent accidental plagiarism in an online world

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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. You were right. Here’s how: 1.

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Favorite Chrome Extension for Writing: Grammarly

Catlin Tucker

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. Most don’t even realize their writing has errors until they use Grammarly.

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Open LMS Partners With Copyleaks, Adding Advanced AI-Driven Plagiarism and AI Content Detection

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. — 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. It’s capable of detecting AI content at the sentence level.