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Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?

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Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the roadGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastArmin Alimardani has blue hair, is fresh faced, wears a smart watch and describes himself as “a tech enthusiast”.He is an unlikely sentinel, perhaps, to warn that a drift towards academics using generative artificial […]

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Australia news live: Paterson says PM’s AI hack timing not a coincidence; gen Z going without for a house

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Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s Gen Z are the generation most willing to cut their spending way back to afford a home, according to Cotality data reported by AAP.The figures show more than 75% of all Australians were curbing their outgoings in pursuit of property,

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Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects

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University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’An Australian university has swapped in-person classes with an AI chatbot, online quizzes and optional online tutorials in two subjects as institutions give the technology more teaching responsibilities.Macquarie

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After more than 15 years of laptops in the classroom, do Australian schools need a rethink?

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‘We don’t want distraction, we want concentration’: many teachers and parent groups think its time for a ‘digital detox’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEarlier this month, the federal education minister, Jason Clare, took to Facebook. “When I was a kid there was

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Australia news live: NSW schools to ban unsupervised take-home tests over AI concerns; minister calls urgent meeting over airport chaos

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Intervention follows days of delays and a near-miss between two planes on the Sydney aiport tarmac. Follow today’s news liveFederal transport minister ‘not happy’ after near-miss between two planes at Sydney airportCatherine King, the federal transport minister, has asked Air Services Australia to speak with her today about a “pathway forward” after two aircraft were

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ANU accused of ‘hysterical’ response to students using AI to cheat as unis scramble to ‘secure’ assessments

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Australia risks ‘shipping’ intellectual capability overseas if educational rigour not restored, experts warnGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn academic at the Australian National University has accused it of a “hysterical” response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of assessments.But a colleague

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Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content

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Follow the day’s latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a community medical centre.AAP reports the boy was found critically injured outside Craigieburn Community hospital in Melbourne’s north about 7.50pm on Wednesday. A

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Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel

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Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AIA few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays.In

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Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

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Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacyAfter a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure – which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers

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In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried

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The fast take-up of innovative technology risks creating a ‘two-speed system’, an Independent Schools Australia paper warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnce upon a time, school students would submit an essay, and teachers would mark it. Job done.Enter “Thinking Mode”. Now, in some Australian schools, once a student finishes an

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