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Students using terms we haven't discussed and they can't tell you what it means. My favorite, was talking about metamorphosis and the question asked what insect goes through it, and the students who found the answers online all wrote "a frog" which was an animal that was discussed in the lesson, but obviously, not an insect.
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One kid copied and pasted another student's slideshow presentation word-for-word into a plain text document.... including the name!!!
Tried to submit it as a "research paper", which was one of the options.
To his credit, he fessed up right away to keep his classmate from also getting a zero.
I had a student copy directly from the publisher's website. Every answer was correct except for the final response which read, "Students answers will vary."
Student then defended his work and refused to admit he copied. Administration gave him a day in ISS, with support from student's parents, for cheating AND lying about it.
When I was teaching math I had a student give me the exact same, "answers may vary check student response," he tried to be cleaver and rewrote it as, "there many right answers you have to check them."
Points for creativity! Copy/paste from Wikipedia is what I’ve seen the most of.
A common occurrence of late is the submission of work which contains the AI prompt and answer, then claiming they didn't cheat when asked. Subsequently, they are telling their parents that the teacher is accusing them of not doing their own work, only to be defended by their parent (when everything is in plain sight). It's a changing world we live in... For formal assessments, we can't do hand-in tasks anymore at our school. Everything is now having to be handwritten under timed conditions.
My school too has a hard time holding students accountable even when caught. My administration said, it is up to me, the teacher to make it harder for them to cheat. sigh...
I had students insisting all the work was theirs, but I looked it up and it was copied straight from Google search! 🤭
Third grade first research project. 🤷♀️
I had a student print off a website for a project. I had another paste a screenshot of an entire Google search, complete with the search prompt and url!
I've had so many stories of students cheating. My favorite: I was teaching a Creative Writing elective. The student submitted a story that seemed familiar and was especially memorable because the main character had an odd last name. The student had a habit of not turning in work, and he was especially excited about this story. "Miss, read my story, I turned it in, I'm really proud of it!!"
The reason the story sounded familiar? His older brother had submitted the exact same story a few years earlier. It was easy to find by searching my drive for that strange last name.
I had that one happen too. Older brother wrote a memorable story and younger sister tried to submit it years later, but it was still in my drive.
My favorite was a student's mom who fought against her son's plagiarism charge - up until I shared the document with her. I told her to scroll down until she found the blue underlines because he left live links included.
Tragic is an odd word choice. You sound like an AI bot.
Schadenfreude means "shameful joy." It is the pleasure one gets from the misfortune of another. I don't think you are experiencing pleasure when your students do stupid things.
I like the word "tragic" here because it demonstrates a lack of awareness and intelligence that is clearly a tragedy for the student's prospects.
An AI would probably use that term correctly, so I am going with the theory that OP is not AI.