I wrote a thing, and if you're interested in #EdTech #TEL or #Education you might want to give it a wee read:
NELE: June 2025
#TurnItIn
🎓 “You just assume that if you do your work, you’re going to be fine — until you aren’t.”
That’s the reality for students caught in the middle of flawed AI-detection systems and rising fears of academic dishonesty.
Highlights from the NYT story:
🤖 Turnitin and other detectors are flagging genuine work as AI-generated
📉 Some students are receiving zeros — or nearly missing graduation — due to false positives
🖥️ Students now screen-record themselves writing homework to prove their innocence
📊 Studies show current detectors misidentify human writing 6–9% of the time
⚠️ Non-native English speakers face even higher risks of being flagged
Several universities (Berkeley, Georgetown, Vanderbilt) have paused AI-detection tools. Others continue to use them — despite evidence of harm.
This isn’t innovation — it’s a trust crisis in the classroom.
#AIethics #AcademicIntegrity #HigherEd #EdTech #ChatGPT #Turnitin
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html
I wrote a thing, and if you're interested in #EdTech #TEL or #Education you might want to give it a wee read:
Supporting Staff and Students in Moving from AI Scepticism to AI Exploration
Students are more concerned about AI's impact on education than teachers and admins. https://jpmellojr.blogspot.com/2025/04/ai-worries-students-more-than-teachers.html #AIinEducation #CriticalThinking #EdTech #Turnitin #FutureOfLearning
https://www.alojapan.com/1235683/turnitin-introduces-ai-writing-detection-for-japanese-submissions/ Turnitin introduces AI writing detection for Japanese submissions #AI. #detection #for #introduces #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #submissions #Turnitin #writing Edtech company offers Japanese-speaking educational community new solution that supports transparency and upholds academic integrity OAKLAND, Calif., April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Turnitin, a leading provider of technology solutions in academic integrity, has launched…
Very good to see Ben's eye on the useless #Turnitin. Ive always spurned any use of Turnitin in L&T. Their bigtech con played on HE has set the scene perfectly for #genAI Co's to subsume universities as data generators for their private profit. HE even pays for this privilege!
#AI #UKHE #academia
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rl2szulxujlgdcmx4avx7jyn/post/3ljt2vqrvrc27
Turnitin has announced Clarity, a new writing environment aimed at helping detect and prevent AI misuse. So why does it come with AI tools?
i'm taking #deepseek_r1 offline for about 400SGD, it's creepy looking at it's thought processes, but after "thinking" it still fucked up despite it's ability to reason and no more "server busy"
gave me a 376 word speech, despite it being able to reason that the speech length was 5-7 minutes...
the skill now is not using AI, but rather, cleaning the AI output so that "our work" passes AI detection tools like #turnitin
it's ok to "build on the work of AI" 🤣
Times HE used to be a magazine worth reading. Its now completely in bed with Big #EdTech. Why is everyone so lost down this #GenAI rabbit hole of money suck? Its just a mega grift, like #TurnItIn. UK HE is largely publicly funded, yet that money is thrown at private companies with total impunity.
Times HE used to be a magazine worth reading. Its now completely in bed with Big #EdTech. Why is everyone so lost down this #GenAI rabbit hole of money suck? Its just a mega grift, like #TurnItIn. UK He is largely publicly funded, yet that money is thrown at private companies with total impunity.
Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/23/chris-hedges-report-surveillance-education/
Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss the “ed-tech” systems eroding minors’ privacy rights and discriminating against students of color. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Any technology created by the U.S. military industrial complex and adopted by the general public was always…
#Politics #Books #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #ObamaAdministration #Ai #Algorithms #Augury #Bark #BigData #BigTech #Chatgpt #ChrisHedges #Cymru #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #EdTech #Education #FamilyEducationalRightsAndPrivacyAct(ferpa) #Gaggle #Goguardian #Gps #Internet #Lexisnexis #NolanHigdonAndAllisonButler #PegasusSpyware #Securly #SiliconValley #Totalitarianism #Turnitin #U.s.ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement
I'm teaching first year writing this semester. Their first major paper was due last week and four out of fourteen clearly used AI to write their papers. This after I had them write repeated drafts by hand in class so I could get a sense of their actual style. But the final version was typed, and that's when they had the computer do it.
It's obvious to me that none of them could have written what they turned in, but this is hard to explain to students and it's not great to challenge them without evidence. Of course the AI never writes the same thing twice, so the submissions aren't reproducible. TurnItIn is reprehensible and not very accurate, so that's out. But it turns out that asking ChatGPT to "finish this paragraph" along with a suspicious first sentence from their papers gets close enough to convince them to admit that they used it.
It returns different sentences and mostly similar or identical words, but the flow of ideas and the content is pretty much the same. This worked reliably. They're all new to college and I'm opposed to it anyway, so I'm not willing to report them, but they're all redoing the assignment.
Oh also, in order to encourage them to take the risk of doing their own writing I'm only grading them on whether they turn in all the assignments, including drafts and revisions, so there's nothing to gain grade wise by using AI, but I guess the temptation was too much. 🤷🏻
Does #TurnItIn do #AI detection as part of it's #plagiarism detection checks now?
I just submitted my assignment for my psych class, and I'm annoyed.
The TurnItIn score I got was 31%, because it's tagged the reference list*, my name and student ID number from the header, and things like titles if theories I was writing about ("the theory of planned behaviour"). A 5 word theory title takes a lot of the percentage of a paper when it's only 6 tasks of 100 words each.
I'm used to a TurnItIn score under 10%.
#uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university #psych #psychology #writing #plagiarism #TurnItIn #AI
* please don't tell me not to add the reference list in TurnItIn. I know that. I also had to submit it as a complete file so I couldn't take the reference list off and then readd it before submitting the paper.
Thought for Last Thing on a Friday Afternoon: How we be almost a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, and *still* Turnitin’s rubric handling is this utterly utterly dire? #Turnitin #LearningTechnology
With PlagScan ending private plans, a question is raised: How accessible should plagiarism detection tools be to the public?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/08/14/who-should-have-access-to-plagiarism-detection-tools
#Plagiarism #Turnitin #PlagiarismDetection #AcademicIntegrity
Popular plagiarism detection service PlagScan is ending private plans, making it inaccessible to individuals and small businesses.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/08/12/plagscan-ending-private-plans/
Replying to students using #ChatGPT:
"...we already use many ways to assess that dont need detection bc there is no way to plagiarise, eg process documentation, project lifecycle or critiquing very specific problems. Moving away completely from submitting essays, which is a very old fashioned method. Traditional universities who still use essays will have issues, but modern assessment methods cut out the problem. Eg Ive never used #TurnItIn bc my approach doesnt benefit"
Dissertation done and defended and approved!
Apparently, to submit final version to grad school it must be done thru #ProQuest, which seems like they use in #Turnitin. Which I oppose. But there is no way to get rid of that.... #TechFail #Infosec
From Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI loc 2467:
I participated in a panel discussion of the future of education with the CEO of Turnitin, the plagiarism-detecting company. He said, “Most of our employees are engineers and we have a few hundred of them … and I think in eighteen months we will need twenty percent of them, and we can start hiring them out of high school rather than four-year colleges. Same for sales and marketing functions.” I could hear gasps from the audience.
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/17/if-you-want-another-reason-to-dislike-turnitin/
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