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V.S. resident to celebrate 100th birthday “Despite the many hardships, mom attended school, worked in her mother’s general In a historic milestone, Val- store, married, had two chilley Stream resident Fernande dren, and emigrated to the US Garnier Calizaire is set to cele- in 1966,” her daughter Theresa brate her 100th birthday on Oct. Hutchinson shared. “She has never returned to Haiti.” 24. Once in the U.S., she worked The soon-to-be centenarian hard to establish a will join a rare and new life for her exclusive group in f a m i ly. S h e w a s American demoemployed as a graphics. Accordseamstress in a facing to Pew tory — a common Research, around path for many 101,000 people in immigrants at the the U.S. are aged time. Calizaire later 100 or older — a transitioned into a population comparole as a dietitian’s rable to that of aide at the VA HosBoulder, Colorado. pital in Brooklyn, Born in 1924 in where she worked the small town of tHERESA until her retireHinche, Haiti, Cal- HUtcHINSON ment in 1986. izaire’s journey is a daughter of Fernande Calizaire and story of resilience, Calizaire her late husband, hard work, and the Emmanuel Calfulfillment of the izaire, became proud homeownAmerican dream. Born to a 14-year-old mother ers, acquiring two properties in who was soon orphaned, Cal- the 1980s. According to obituary records, the couple were longizaire faced the hardships of g r ow i n g u p w i t h l i m i t e d time choir mates, bonding over resources. Despite these diffi- a playful inside joke about a culties, she pursued an educa- Christmas song that Emmanuel tion and helped her mother run humorously claimed was about a general store in their commu- him — his corny charm won nity. ConTInued on PAGe 4
By ANGELINA ZINGARIELLO
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Valley Stream South High School senior Alyssa Gonzalez’s research explores how AI tools like ChatGPT are influencing cheating and academic integrity among students.
South senior reveals cheating trends with A.I. chatbot By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com
Since ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, arrived on the scene in 2022, it has taken the academic world by storm. The bots’ usefulness is hard to deny. For students, it can help polish their syntax and generate research ideas. But it can also, with a simple prompt, complete your book assignment, draft a full-length essay, and solve problem sets for you instantly. No extra brainpower is needed. Presented with a formidable — albeit flawed — A.I. learning tool at their fingertips, the problem of A.I.-generated cheating and plagiarism is alive and well. But how widespread is the problem, and how have students approached the ethical questions
the new technology raises? Alyssa Gonzalez, a senior at South High School, was eager to find answers. As part of her AP Research class, she decided to embark on a research project delving into the realm of ChatGPT and how it has — or hasn’t — changed “students’ perception towards academic integrity.” “If we can understand how students are using these services, school communities can understand how to regulate them and how to set those boundaries for the future,” Gonzalez said.
How students are using, and misusing, AI tools She devised an online questionnaire featuring statements on ChatGPT use and acaConTInued on PAGe 16
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