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How are you dealing with students' use of Google Translate when submitting written work? Has anyone found a way to detect this? Has anyone found a way to prevent students from attempting to submit "Google-translated" work as their own?
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Erica I find that any work produced with an online translator is pretty easily detected. At our school, turning in work using this method is cheating and students are subject to our academic integrity policy. Consequences are the same as if they cheated on a test, plagiarized, etc. I clearly explain this policy to students and parents at the beginning of...See More
May 24, 2011
tutor This is my favorite tool to show students at the beginning of the year, it's called "Bad Translator" ... during the first days when you discuss the syllabus, and cheating in class which includes using on-line translators, bring this up to show them:

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I typed this in :

"It is easy for a teacher to tell whe...See More
May 27, 2011
Madame Aiello A high school in my area only lets its grade 9 students write assignments during class time. They cannot take them home, and are gathered up by the teacher until the next day. I've tried this and found it too onerous on me. Instead, I will sometimes do all rough draft work in class, and once I've read it & provided feedback, I find they are les...See More
Jun 3, 2011
robert leabo On 5/22/11, Lynn Dixon wrote: > How are you dealing with students' use of Google Translate > when submitting written work? Has anyone found a way to > detect this? Has anyone found a way to prevent students > from attempting to submit "Google-translated" work as their own?

Haha in Spanish my teachers used to get 'itchy' when th...See More
Dec 7, 2012
ABPF If the assignment is just homework, then no credit should be assigned for accuracy. In class assignments receive scores on accuracy.

Is it not better to have made the effort to complete the work, to have a somewhat perfect translation if not already 100% correct, that to have wasted time and to have very bad translations?

We nee...See More
Dec 9, 2012


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