Tag: writing

  • Word Choice in the AI-Age

    There have been some interesting articles on words used in AI writing. As I read those lists I was thinking about how this could impact me as a student or writer generally knowing that these have been called out for making me sound like an AI (I certainly don’t feel like an AI).  Two recent…

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  • Why we chose Moodle as our first Integration

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST I’ve been using the Moodle Learning Management System (Moodle LMS) since 2007 when I started learning the ins and outs of site administration, course development, and extending the already powerful LMS with additional community and commercial plugins. Over the last decade and a half I’ve worked…

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  • 3 Key Features that Set Cursive Apart

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Academic integrity tools for plagiarism detection offer various features to teachers and students using their products.  I’ve tried, demoed, and used dozens of plagiarism detection tools over the last 15 years, administering a large-scale online English Composition course. From this review, I think that the main…

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  • An Ode to the Keyboard

    Rethinking Authorship in the AI-era The Keyboard Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST The qwerty keyboard has been around since 1866, invented to uniformly and efficiently share information and data; it became the device of choice for interacting with computers once punch cards went out of vogue in the 1960s. Its connection…

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  • Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar

    Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar

    July 12th we participated in the AI for Education Summer Launchpad Series for Educators webinar focused on cheating and academic integrity questions. It was a great discussion with a wonderful audience. You can check out additional webinars in the awesome series here: https://www.aiforeducation.io/ai-launchpad-webinars

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  • Journaling Exercise (complete one for weekly emails)

    Journaling Exercise (complete one for weekly emails)

    To facilitate continuous testing and the introduction of new features we’ve been posting weekly journaling exercises with quick prompts for participants. In a student setting, these low risk, low effort tasks help to get students writing similar to impromptus or other open ended prompts. I’ve had a fun time reflecting on how I might spend…

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  • March update and getting started

    Welcome, we’re glad you’re here! To give things a try, click at least Assignment 1 and one of the other options (you’ll need to click at least two links on this page for us to get a confidence score). Assignment 1 Assignment 2a (copy behavior) Assignment 2b (additional prompt) Assignment 2c (try to mess up…

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  • Best Practices for Academic Integrity Infographic (Classroom Level)

    Part 1 (Institutional Level) Part 2 (Department Level) Part 3 (Classroom Level): The frontline of Academic Integrity falls to faculty, teachers, and students in the classroom assigning work, submitting assignments, evaluating, and participating in the day-to-day requirements of high school and higher education. Faculty bear the burden of proactively teaching and reaffirming the institutional and…

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