Author Archives: Barry Burkett

ChatGPT: How To Ensure Your Student Is Doing Their Own Work In Your Classroom

As an academic, it’s important to ensure that the work your students are submitting is their own. Unfortunately, in today’s digital age, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between original work, plagiarized work, and work authored by others — including artificial intelligence. The rise of ghostwriting services and cheating websites has made it more difficult to assess the authenticity of a student’s work.

In this article, we’ll discuss what ChatGPT is, why authorship is important, and how to maintain an authorship focus in your classroom. … Read More

Open AI’s Chatbot

CNN’s Samantha Murphy Kelly wrote a great article, “This AI chatbot is dominating social media with its frighteningly good essays.” In the article she highlight’s Open AI’s recent release of a public-friendly language-bot, ChatGPT.  But Kelly is not the only one … Read More

Protected: The Student Experience

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Wanted: early adopter to use and critique edtech software

Sikanai is seeking funding to help us amplify our work. … Read More

Excited to open pre-seed funding for a select few

Sikanai is seeking funding to help us amplify our work. … Read More

AI is the new Ghostwriter

Auth+ helps instructors identify ghostwriting, ask students about contract cheating

The AI-driven, 6-question quiz creates questions using passages from the paper itself.
It checks a student’s familiarity with the submission and reports a Familiarity Score to the instructor.
The Familiarity Score quickly tells the instructor the probability of authorship. … Read More