🤖 Byte-sized Betrayal: AI-Assisted Plagiarism.

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  • Acceptable AI Usage (according to U.S. teenagers)

  • Read This: “What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating?”

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Acceptable AI Usage (according to U.S. teenagers)

How big is the AI plagiarism problem, really?

That was one question we addressed in our recent blog post, “AIsessments: Setting Expectations, Preventing Plagiarism, and Empowering Students.” The best we could do was estimate.

Little did we know that as we published that, the Pew Research Center surveyed U.S. Teens on the matter.

Here’s what they found:

As an ex-math teacher, I’m baffled as to why there are almost twice the number of students think that using AI to solve math problems is acceptable compared to using AI to write essays.

The study also found that 19% of students use it for school work - which is close to the figure from the UK we shared last week.

While the correlation between age and usage doesn’t shock me, I am interested in the gender difference.

Do you find that this data well represents AI usage in your classroom?

Read This: “What do AI chatbots really mean for students and cheating?”

Continuing with the theme of AI assisted cheating…

Here are two Q&A responses I found insightful.

“But clearly a lot of students are cheating in the first place. Isn’t that a problem?”

When students feel respected and valued, they’re more likely to engage in learning and act with integrity...Strategies to help students feel more engaged and valued are likely to be more effective than taking a hard line on AI.

Denise Pope, Co-founder of Challenge Success, a school reform nonprofit affiliated with the GSE

“What would you suggest to school leaders who are concerned about students using AI chatbots?”

AI is not going away. Along with addressing the deeper reasons why students cheat, we need to teach students how to understand and think critically about this technology.

Victor Lee, Associate Professor at the GSE

I think both of these quotes speak to the same truth:

Nothing happens in a vacuum - particularly within education.

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As teachers, we have to look for comprehensive classroom solutions to address AI, not for quick fixes.

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